15. Canals
• Canals are manmade waterways
dug between 2 large bodies of
water.
• The Erie Canal was a short cut
from the Atlantic Ocean to the
Great Lakes.
51. Progressive
goals
Progressives sought the following:
Temperance
Reform of the government
Suffrage for women
Better working conditions
More government regulation
Efficient industry
60. Political
reform
• The Seventeenth Amendment
put more power into the
peoples’ hands. It allowed for
the direct election of US
Senators. Before, state
legislators would choose.
• Here are the Texas
Senators:
92. Efficient
industry
• While some progressives fought
industry with labor unions and
government regulation, others
helped industry by using
science in the workplace.
93. • Taylorism – increasing
efficiency through studies of
human motion.
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