Monday:
chapter 9 presentations:
- describe the major social changes that affected women during the progressive Era
- describe women's push for suffrage(voting) and the passing of the of the 19th Amendment
Women's Role in Progressive Era:
- many more women were getting an education
- many became teachers
- help push for the passing of the 18th and 19th Amendments in the US Constitution
The Push For Equality
- 1848-Seneca Falls Declaration:
- Abolition of slavery
- temperance 13th Amendment
- Women's suffrage 18th amendments
National women's suffrage association:
- Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were apart of this association
- they also pushed for legalizing alcohol
- world war 1 helped women get jobs
Jeannette Rankin
- worked to win suffrage in Washington state
- was elected the 1st women in Congress in 1916
- voted against war in WWI and WWII
9-3:
Theodore Roosevelt:
- he was a young governor from New York
- he was not healthy kid, he had asthma
- he became a boxer, he started lifting weights
Railroad regulation
9-2:
Women in the workforce:
- most women worked in the home, some worked in the fields, some worked in factories
- 70% of women were employed in 1870
Women lead reform:
a 3 part strategy for surface
- state legislature
- amendment process
- through congress
Tuesday: I was gone
Wednesday: presentations
16th amendment:
- took people money through taxes(income taxes)
Policy towards African americans:
- Booker T Washington a black civil right activists............
William Jennings Bryan vs William Howard Taft 1908 election
the elections were basically split between the north and the south
William Howard Taft:
- born September 15, 1857
- attended Yale college
- he was a lawyer then secretary of war
- never aimed at being president
- he went back o work after being president, he was a lawyer and other things
Taft's Accomplishments:
- Payne Aldrich which reduced tariffs
- broke up many trusts including the standards of company in 1911
- 16th Amendment Passed
presidents can't passed laws, but can have an impact on them
Standard Oil:
- standard oil of Ohio became BP
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