https://padlet.com/catrinkle/kdibcxe85nwu Unit 2, The Progressive Era en-us 2018-03-20 21:08:22 UTC 2026-01-05 00:58:15 UTC hello@padlet.com catrinkle https://padlet.com/catrinkle/kdibcxe85nwu/wish/244284206 The Industrial Revolution created great wealth - but only for a few.  Farmers suffered from low prices for their crop but high costs for practically everything else. As more people moved away from farms, cities became overcrowded and unsanitary. Children worked for long hours in factories. People turned to the government for help. ]]> 2018-03-20 21:13:55 UTC https://padlet.com/catrinkle/kdibcxe85nwu/wish/244284206 catrinkle https://padlet.com/catrinkle/kdibcxe85nwu/wish/244286220 Watch this short overview of the Industrial Revolution (3:34 min).]]> 2018-03-20 21:20:51 UTC https://padlet.com/catrinkle/kdibcxe85nwu/wish/244286220 catrinkle https://padlet.com/catrinkle/kdibcxe85nwu/wish/244293750 Super-wealthy industrialists such as Andrew Carnegie, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and John D. Rockefeller were called Robber Barons because, according to your textbook, they were seen as "self-centered drive for profit at the expense of workers and the general public, who seldom benefited to any great degree." Others called them "Captains of Industry"because of the good things that came out of the Industrial Revolution: steel, machinery, innovations, technology, architecture, and transportation.]]> 2018-03-20 21:51:39 UTC https://padlet.com/catrinkle/kdibcxe85nwu/wish/244293750 catrinkle https://padlet.com/catrinkle/kdibcxe85nwu/wish/244293925
Industrialization, urbanization, and immigration brought many benefits to America, but they also produced challenging social problems.  In response, a movement called Progressivism emerged in the late 1890s.  Progressives believed that new ideas and honest, efficient government could bring about social justice.  Progressives brought lasting reforms that still effect society today. _{^{(Source: http://www.adair.k12.ky.us)}} ]]> 2018-03-20 21:52:36 UTC https://padlet.com/catrinkle/kdibcxe85nwu/wish/244293925 catrinkle https://padlet.com/catrinkle/kdibcxe85nwu/wish/244296170 From your textbook: Andrew Carnegie, more than any other businessman of the era, championed the idea that America’s leading
tycoons (mega-wealthy men) owed a debt to society. He believed that, given the circumstances of their successes, they should
serve as benefactors to the less fortunate public. For Carnegie, poverty was not an abstract concept, as his family had been a part of the struggling masses. He desired to set an example of philanthropy for all other prominent industrialists of the era to follow. Carnegie’s famous essay, The Gospel of Wealth, 
explained his beliefs. In it, he borrowed from Herbert Spencer’s theory of social Darwinism, which
held that society developed much like plant or animal life through a process of evolution in which the most fit and capable people enjoyed the greatest material and social success.]]> 2018-03-20 22:03:44 UTC https://padlet.com/catrinkle/kdibcxe85nwu/wish/244296170 catrinkle https://padlet.com/catrinkle/kdibcxe85nwu/wish/244297142 Ever been to Chicago? This famous house is still there! Jane Adams was a famous social reformer. She opened a house to help women gain skills so they didn't have to work in live in such terrible conditions. Many female college graduates who had degrees in Sociology went to this neighborhood in Chicago to live with poor women and their children and apply what they learned to help these poor families. In the picture, you see young girls learning instead of working in a factory.]]> 2018-03-20 22:08:52 UTC https://padlet.com/catrinkle/kdibcxe85nwu/wish/244297142 catrinkle https://padlet.com/catrinkle/kdibcxe85nwu/wish/244297927 Jacob Riis was a police reporter who used his photography skills to show the country the terrible living conditions of workers in his book, How the Other Half Lives, which led to a revolution in social reform.]]> 2018-03-20 22:12:46 UTC https://padlet.com/catrinkle/kdibcxe85nwu/wish/244297927 catrinkle https://padlet.com/catrinkle/kdibcxe85nwu/wish/244605258 2018-03-21 16:02:50 UTC https://padlet.com/catrinkle/kdibcxe85nwu/wish/244605258 catrinkle https://padlet.com/catrinkle/kdibcxe85nwu/wish/245740725 Washington was an author and great orator (speaker) who advised both Roosevelt and Taft. He advocated a small-steps approach to improving education and life for black Americans. ]]> 2018-03-24 15:55:10 UTC https://padlet.com/catrinkle/kdibcxe85nwu/wish/245740725 catrinkle https://padlet.com/catrinkle/kdibcxe85nwu/wish/245741454 Father of modern education. Wrote a famous book called Democracy and Education.]]> 2018-03-24 16:03:08 UTC https://padlet.com/catrinkle/kdibcxe85nwu/wish/245741454 catrinkle https://padlet.com/catrinkle/kdibcxe85nwu/wish/245741978 Began in 1909 by W.E.B. Du Bois. The nation's oldest, largest, and most widely recognized grassroots based civil rights organization. ]]> 2018-03-24 16:08:17 UTC https://padlet.com/catrinkle/kdibcxe85nwu/wish/245741978