Topic:
Reforming Society
Learning Objective: You will be able to determine why reformers attempt to improve American morality.
Learning Objective: You will be able to determine why reformers attempt to improve American morality.
Do Now:
1.
Define Morality
2.
What are some problems in our community today?
3.
What are some solutions to these problems?
Direct
Instruction:
Transformation
of American Youth:
Public Education:
The growth of mandatory school attendance helped the progressives end abuses of child labor by keeping children in school.
Map
Analysis - Classwork #19:
Questions:
1.What were some states that enacted (put into
place) the Compulsory Attendance Law first?
2.What are some states that adopted the law
after 1897?
3.Why do you think the southern states
enacted the law later than other states?
4.What were some professions in the south?
Urban Areas:
Urban
Make-Up (1920):
·More than 50 percent lived in cities
Urban Problems:
•Dirty
Streets – Lack of waste removal in urban areas.
•Safe
housing – more and diverse groups of people moving into areas around each other
with clashing ideals.
•Law
Enforcement – Need for protection increased as population did as
well.
Reforming
Society:
Steps to Reforming Society:
What
steps did reformers take to try to solve urban problems?
Progressives sought to clean up cities:
•Building
Codes:
oBanned
construction of dark airless tenements
oContain
one bathroom for each apartment
•Public
Health:
oStronger
regulations in hospitals.
•City
Planning:
oMore
city parks
oMore playgrounds
Improve
American Morals:
•Censorship
of Movies:
oCreate
a moral compass for people to live by.
•Prohibition:
oPlace
a stop on the production and sale of alcohol.
Questions:
1.Who was against the production of
alcohol?
2.What did alcohol do to the innocent?
3.What did the banner say in the background
of the man speaking?
4.What was “the most danger drug in America?”
Activity:
On
a sheet of loose-leaf, you will work in pairs to write a newspaper article
supporting or disagreeing the prohibition.
The
article must include:
•Title
•Sentence
stating which side you support
•Two
reasons why you support that side
Then
each pair will swap their letter with another group. On the back of the
article, the group will then write a letter to the editor taking the opposite
view of the letter they are reading.
•Your
letter to the editor must include:
•Your
name
•If
you are a progressive
•Two
reasons why you support the opposite side
How
did
reformers attempt to improve American morality?
Write
in one complete Sentence.
