1. For your Table of Contents: The Progressive Response Notes
October 20, 2015
GO HAWKS!
For your Table of Contents:
The Progressive Response Notes
Progressive Era Test Friday!!

2. GOAL OF PROGRESSIVES:
Make the government more responsible to the will of the people
Allowing voters to have a greater direct impact on public policy

3. Political Machines
- political power was in the hands of a network of men who could be influenced through bribes and favors, controlled many city governments
Once elected politicians had little accountability

4. Progressives pushed for:
Primary elections
The power of initiatives & referendums
Recall elections
*Go to your key terms define in your own words & illustrate

5. 1913 – 17th Amendment
> direct election of US senators
1920
– 19th Amendment
> women’s suffrage

6. Roosevelt is often referred to as the father of the national park system.
WHY?

7. urban and industrial development
He had the foresight
to preserve huge tracts of Wilderness areas during a time period of tremendous
urban and industrial development
Teddy Roosevelt and John Muir posing in front of Yosemite Valley, in California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains

8. Video Instructions Distribute words evenly amongst group memebers
As you hear the word you have in the video put it in the center in order
When video is done have it checked to see if correct
Then write a summary of Progressive Era using 6 of the words in your list!

9. Create an acrostic of the Progressive Era in your spiral
Create an acrostic of the Progressive Era in your spiral. You may use your notes, the text or the Jarrett book pages to complete the acrostic. Draw and color an illustration for 5 of your sentences.
P Ratified the 19th Amendment, which allowed women’s suffrage. O G R E S I V
Can’t use the same
topic more then once!
Diversify!!!

10. Progressive Bio-Poem Tell about someone’s life!
● This should be completed on an unlined sheet of paper
● Be sure to include all necessary information- prove that you know what you are talking about
● Include: poem and picture for 2 individuals
DUE MONDAY!!!!!
EXAMPLE:
Abraham
Tall, thin, motivated, bearded
Who cares deeply about all men
Who feels sad much of the time, sometimes
alone in the world
Who needs to win the hearts of all his
countrymen
Who gives love to his family, advice to his
generals, consolation to a sorrowing nation,
Who fears the dissolution of the American
union,
Who would like to see every man respected
for his God-given dignity,
Resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue,
Washington, D.C.
Progressive Bio-Poem Tell about someone’s life!
Format: Name 4 descriptive words Who cares deeply about __________ Who feels _____________________ Who needs to __________________ Who gives _____________________ Who fears _____________________ Who would like to see ___________ Resident of ____________________ AND A COLORED PICTURE OF THE PERSON
EXAMPLE:
Abraham
Tall, thin, motivated, bearded
Who cares deeply about all men
Who feels sad much of the time, sometimes
alone in the world
Who needs to win the hearts of all his
countrymen
Who gives love to his family, advice to his
generals, consolation to a sorrowing nation,
Who fears the dissolution of the American
union,
Who would like to see every man respected
for his God-given dignity,
Resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue,
Washington, D.C.
You will create 2 Bio Poems:
Choose 1 of the following:
Jane Addams
WEB DuBois
Booker T Washington
Susan B. Anthony
Robert M. LaFollette
John Muir
DUE MONDAY!