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Weeksheet: November 29 – December 3            Name/Hour:___Make sure that you attach any notes, outside question sets, homework, assignments, tests, quizzes, or other weekly documents each Friday

MONDAY Notes From Overhead to be submitted on Monday; Attach if late.

TUESDAY 1. What act did progressives get passed in 1901? Why is this act important (What changes were forced because of i

2. What were the “White Wings” and why does what they did matter?

3. Provide at least two (2) examples of things progressivist did in order to improve life for children.

4. Why were female workers protected more under the law then male workers? Do you agree with this reasoning?Why or why not.

5. What is workers' compensation?

(ATTACH ARTICLE RESPONSE/ PROGRESSIVE LETTER)

WEDNESDAY (ATTACH PICTURE NOTES)

1. Compare and Contrast the problems and solutions that people took to correct government corruption in cities andstates.

Cities States

Problems

How did the election

process change?

MAYORS : What types of action

did the new

leadership take? Bespecific.

GOVERNORS :

2. States had four different major reforms they undertook. Describe each:

• SECRET BALLOTS

• DIRECT PRIMARY

• RECALL

• INITIATIVE

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THURSDAY 

1. ATTACH LECTURE NOTES TO THIS DOCUMENT. REMEMBER TO ATTACH WEDNESDAY NOTES TO

2. Who helped to found the NAACP?

3.  Booker T. Washington and  W.E.B. Du Bois had very different ideas about how African Americans should pr

with making sure they had opportunities and could have a good life. Describe each mans  philosophy.

Booker T. Washington W.E.B. Du Bois

5.One of the men above believed in a aggressive approach that called on people to take radical action while the oth

believed in a “slow and steady” approach that focused on education. Which philosophy do you believe is the most

wise and why?

6. How do people today who fight for the rights of minorities go about their business? Do they preach education?

Radical tactics? Something entirely different? And how do people spread the news about their beliefs?

FRIDAY 

1. How did the U.S. change after huge amounts of oil were discovered in Texas in 1901? Do you think this event stishapes our lives today?

2. Why did Los Angeles city leaders need to seek water sources outside the city? What do you think were the risks bringing in water from beyond the city limits?

3. What was the “Great Migration” and when did it take place?

4. Why do you think there was so much tension and violence against African Americans in urban areas in the 1910s

and 1920s?

5. What were some of the reasons for and against Prohibition in the 1920s? Despite the ban on alcohol, why do you

think sales of liquor continued, and what were some methods police used to stop it?