Monday-
Basketball
- Dr. James Naismith
- First public game was in 1892
Baseball
- Invented by Abner Doubleday in 1839
- Major league baseball became big in the late 1800's
Football
- Late 1800's college football became popular
- NFL would not start until the 1920's
Other sports
- Tennis
- Golf
- Boxing
- Biking- 1885
Music and Dancing
- Ragtime
- Cakewalk
- Tap Dancing- Bill "Bojangles" Robinson
World fairs
- Focused on showcasing the latest and greatest in inventions and technology
Chapter 9- The Progressive Reform Era- 1890-1920
Protecting Social Welfare
- Set up settlement houses for poor
- Opened libraries
- Sponsored education classes
- Opened swimming pools
- Set up soup kitchens
- Slum brigades- teach immigrants
Promoting Moral Improvements
- Prohibition
- Carrie Nation
- Why ban alcohol
- 18 amendment law- banned making, selling and transporting of alcohol
- Women's suffrage
Creating Economic Reform
- There was a major unbalance in income and how people lived
- Many turned to socialism
- Regulation of railroads
- Regulation of business(Sherman Act)
- Child labor laws
- Women and men working hours reduced
- Workmen's compensation
Muckrakers
- Muckrakers played a big role in bringing reform
- Investigative journalists
- Exposed the problems of society
- Upton Sinclair- The jungle-meatpacking
- Ida Tarbell-Exposed the ruthless methods of Standard Oil Company
Fostering Efficiency
- Henry Ford paid workers $5 a day!!
Reforming Elections
- States adopt secret ballot
- Direct Primary
- Initiative- A bill originated by the people rather than lawmakers
- Referendum- when voters accept or reject the initiative(Bill)
- Recall- Enabled voters to remove public officials for elected positions
- 17th and 19th Amendments
Tuesday-
The push for equality
- 1848- Seneca Falls Declaration: Plea for the end of discrimination against women in all spheres of society
- Women pushed four things
- Abolition of slavery 13th
- Temperance 19th
Teddy Roosevelt
- Square Deal
- give everyone a chance
- TR was the "Trustbuster"
- Good trusts vs Bad trusts
- Helped settle the 1902 Coal strike in which the miners got better pay and a nine hour workday
- Passed the elkins act and Hepburn Act which required railroads to be fair and just in their prices and practices
- Passed the meat inspection Act
- Passed the pure food and Drug Act- 1906
- Newlands Act- 1902- sold western land and made dams which allowed for irrigation
- Conservation
- Did not do much for African American
Conservation Measures
- Roosevelt condemned view that our "resources were endless"
- T.R. set aside 148 million acres of forest
Taft's Accomplishments
- Passed the Payne-Aldrich Tariff which reduced tariffs
- Used Dollar Diplomacy when dealing with other countries- US would use the military and diplomacy to help promote U.S. business interests overseas.
- Broke up many trusts including the Standard Oil Company in 1911
- 16th Amendment
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