Hi• 1. Study Guide to page 21. Read the outline.• 2. Guided Reading on next 4 pages.

– There are 7 questions to answer. Don’t read what is crossed out and skip the Challenge Activities. Need to Know List when done.

• 3. If you are completing a Unit 1 Project, DO NOT TURN IT IN WITHOUT LOOKING THOROUGHLY AT THE GRADING RUBRIC FOR THAT ASSIGNMENT! Grading rubrics can be found under the “US Projects” tab at mrlamm.weebly.com

• If you are a sophomore, head to the Auditorium now for your scheduling meeting. Everything will be online for you.

• “Working Man”– Imagine Dragons

The Square Deal – interests of businesspeople, workers, and consumers need to be balanced

Learning Goal 12

• I will be able to:– Cite examples of problems workers faced during the

Progressive Era (children’s employment, long hours, low wages, injuries on the job, company towns, scrip)

– Explain the solutions that were attempted– Summarize the response of the US Supreme Court to

worker’s rights laws and how it affected union membership

Child laborProblems

Square Deal

Working conditions

Unions

• Kids under 15 worked in factories, mills, mines• Child labor & minimum wage laws = ruled unconstitutional

b/c SC said not gov’ts job to regulate wages; if wages too low, pple should choose not to work there, but ALL paid low

• Company towns; had to live there, paid in scrip instead of real money, lasted until 1950s

• T. Roosevelt, balance needs of business, workers, & people– 1902 Coal Miner’s strike, pple w/o coal for winter, TR

encouraged arbitration or letting 3rd party decide; 1st time gov’t stepped in to help workers

– 1st to use Sherman Anti-Trust Act to break monopoly– Conservation = national parks and forests

• 1911, Triangle Shirtwaist fire – 146 women killed b/c management locked them in

• Worker’s compensation initiated - $ if hurt on the job• SC continued to rule against workers, union membership up

to help b/c gov’t wouldn’t

Union Membership – Why did it increase so dramatically between 1900-1920?

1902 Coal Miner’s Strike – agreed to arbitration: help workers

Triangle Shirtwaist Company – NY

Now

Option 1• Watch the video and make a

list of 10 facts that you watched or heard. You can write them on page 22. Ignore the handout; if you watch the video you don’t have to complete the handout.

Option 2• Ignore the video and

complete page 22.

PROBLEMS PEOPLE FACED SOLUTIONS TO MAKE LIFE BETTER

• 1:45-6:26 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IepTBls1uk