- Ch. 9.1
- -Define the Progressive Era and why it started(goals).
- Protect Social Welfare
- Create Economic Reform
- Promote Moral Improvement
- Foster Efficiency
-What is prohibition? Why did people want prohibition to come about? What tactics were used to bring about prohibition?
- it banned drinking
-because they believe it had a affect on peoples life and caused crime.
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-Describe the impact aid organizations had on our country.
-What did the 18th Amendment do and why did people want it?
- the banning of alcohol, it was affecting peoples actions.
- drunks were mean to their wives, cheated on them, left them.
-kids and wives were getting beat by drunk husband.
-What is socialism? How was it started in the United States?
-What/who were muckrakers and what impact did they have on our country?
- they were investing journalist, they bought change and currpotions.
-they exposed problems.
-What did local government do to reform itself during the Progressive Era?
-drove big business out of business.
-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?-Keating Owen Act
-What did progressives do to help workers reduce the number of hours they had to work?-What did progressives do to bring about better wages for workers?
-What did progressives do to make our country more democratic?
17 amendment
Serect Ballot
Initiative
Referendum
Recall
Direct Primary
-What did the 17th Amendment do?
allowed voters to vote for there own senators.
Ch. 9.2
-Describe the major social changes that affected women during the Progressive Era.
- women started working outside the home.
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-Describe women's push for suffrage(voting) and the passing of the 19th Amendment.
- allowed women the right 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.
he was raised in a weathly family and went to Harvard to box!wrote many books about history
he invented the meat inspection act
known as trust buster, meat inspections,
-Square Progressive
Progressive reform to help reform
help middle class people so everyone is treated equally
-Breaking up strikes
-Regulating railroads
New lands Reclamation Act
-Regulating food and drugs
Pure Food and Drug Act
-Conservation
He helped set up national parks
-Civil Rights
Ch.9.4
-Describe the major accomplishments and problems of William Howard Taft's presidency
- promised to lower tariffs, was Chief Justice after president,
he wasn't energetic or good speaker.
-Payne-Aldrich Tariff
-Land disputes
-Breaking up trusts
-Clayton antitrust act
-FTC-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.
Wilson won because Rooslvet split up the Republicans parties.
Ch. 9.5
-Describe the major accomplishments/issues of Woodrow as President.
- the republicans slipt during this election
-he made the Clayton Anti Trust Act
- he helped labor unions
-Breaking up trusts
-Underwood Tariff
-16th Amendment
- allowed business to put tax on the income.
-Federal Reserve System
- if other banks are failing the federal reserve bank could save the other banks..
-created 12 district banks to help
-able to issues new currency
-Limits to Progressivism under Wilson
He disapointed progressives who forced reform
He didnt help Blacks
We did the mock election!
Becky and Lyric finished.
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