Monday- continue powerpoint
-Segregation
- different restrooms for whites and Negros
- colored people sitting in the backs of buses and restaurants
- Up until Vietnam war, military was segregated
Entertainment
- Circus
- Vaudeville
- Amusement parks
- Minstrel Shows
- Parks
Sports
- Baseball
- Basketball
- Football
- Tennis
- Golf
- Boxing
- Biking
Tuesday- continue powerpoint- Chapter 9
Progressives-
1. Protecting Social Welfare- helping the poor
- set up settlement houses for poor
- opened libraries
- sponsored education classes
- opened swimming pools
- set up soup kitchens
- slum brigades-teach immigrants
2. Promoting Moral Improvement
- prohibition
- Carrie Nation
- banned making, selling, and transporting alcohol- women especially pushed for it- didn't last long
- women's suffrage
3. Creating Economic Reform
- 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 reduced
- workmen's compensation- paid leave when injured on the job
4. Fostering Efficiency
- Scientific management to increase efficiency was used in factories
- Fredrick Taylor- Time Management studies
- Assembly line
- Henry Forn paid workers $5 a day!
- Progressives also worked for better efficiency in all levels of government.
Miuckrakers:
- played a big role in bringing reform
- incestigatice journalists
- exposed problems of society
- Upton Sinclair- The Jungle- meatpacking- resulted in food regulations
- Ida Tarbell- exposed the ruthless methods of the Standard Oil Company
- Lincoln Steffens- exposed corruption in government
Reforming Elections
- States adopt secret ballot
- Direct Primary- one person from each party is nominated for president
- Initiative- a bill originated by the people rather than lawmakers
- Referendum- when voters accept or rejet the initiative (bill)
- Recall- enabled voters to remove public officials from elected posiions
- 17th and 19th amendments- direct election of senetors and women were given right to vote
Push for Equality
- 1848- Seneca Falls Declaration: Plea for the end of discrimination against women in all spheres of society, including the right to vote
- Women in the mid-late 1800's and early 1900's pushed for four things:
- Abolition of slavery (13th Amendment- 1865)
- Temperance (18th Amendment- 1920)
- Women's suffrage (19th Amendment- 1920)
- Child Labor Laws
- Women were alowed to vote in the west first
Teddy Rosevelt
- governor of Now York- 1898-1900
- vice-President of US in 1901
- served as president from 1901-1909
- wrote many history books
- owned and ran a ranch in the Dakota Territory
- avid hunter- African Safaris
-Accomplishments as President
- Used his personality, popularity and power of persuasion to get what he wanted
- Believed that the federal government was there to help common people
- Wanted to give everyone a "Square Deal", a fair shot
- Used the "bully pulpit" to influence media and help pass laws
Wednesday-Friday- no school- Thanksgiving break
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