Ch. 9.1
-Define the Progressive Era and why it started(goals).
- Aimed to restore economic opportunities and correct injustices in American life.
- 4 goals:
- Protecting social welfare
- Promoting moral improvement
- Creating economic reform
- Fostering efficiency
-What is prohibition? Why did people want prohibition to come about? What tactics were used to bring about prohibition? The 18th amendment banned alcohol
Prohibition: Alcohol was banned because people thought it was the cause of many problems in America
-Describe the impact aid organizations had on our country. The YMCA strove to improve social welfare.
-What did the 18th Amendment do and why did people want it?
-What is socialism? How was it started in the United States?
-What/who were muckrakers and what impact did they have on our country?
Muckrakers were journalists who wrote about corrupt people in government.
-What did local government do to reform itself during the Progressive Era?
-What did businesses do to bring better efficiency to their business?
-What did the progressives do to make the workplace safer?
-What did the progressives do to help end or reduce child labor?
-What did progressives do to help workers reduce the number of hours they had to work? They invented workers compensation that was used to help families of hurt or killed workers with their expenses
-What did progressives do to bring about better wages for workers?
-What did progressives do to make our country more democratic?
-What did the 17th Amendment do?The 17th amendment allowed for people to directly vote for their senators it was passed in 1913
Ch. 9.2
-Describe the major social changes that affected women during the Progressive Era.
-Describe women's push for suffrage(voting) and the passing of the 19th Amendment.The 19th amendment made it possible for women to vote
-Describe some women who were leaders in the push for suffrage and temperance.
Ch. 9.3
-Describe the major accomplishments of Teddy Roosevelt as President.
-Square Deal
-Breaking up strikes
-Regulating railroads
-Regulating food and drugs Theodore Roosevelt passed several acts including the Meat inspection Act to help improve the life an health of US citizens
-Conservation
-Civil Rights
Ch.9.4
-Describe the major accomplishments and problems of William Howard Taft's presidency
-Payne-Aldrich Tariff
-Land disputes
-Breaking up trusts
-You will have to look elsewhere for some other accomplishments as the book is limited
-Break-up of the Republican Party
-Describe the outcome of the 1912 Presidential Election.
Ch. 9.5
-Describe the major accomplishments/issues of Woodrow as President.
-Breaking up trusts
-Underwood Tariff
-16th Amendment The 16th amendment made it possible for the government to take an income tax
-Federal Reserve System Federal reserve banks were made so that banks that are suffering can receive help from the federal reserve
-Limits to Progressivism under Wilson
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