M O N D A Y-
1. Protecting Social Welfare
- Settlement houses for poor
- Libraries
- Sponsered education classes
- Swimming pools
- Soup Kitchens
- Slum brigades- teach immigrants
2. Promoting Moral Improvement
- Prohibition
- Carrie Nation - Had a vision from God, take a hatchet, go into bars and destroy alcohol
- Why ban Alchohol?
3. Capitalism
- Economic System
- Means of production are privately owned
- People own and contorl business'
- Change to go from poor to rich
- Laissez-Faire - HANDS OFF
4. Socialism
- Social or Economic system
- Property and distribution of wealth are determined by the government
- Government owns and controls business'
- Elimination of provate property, everyone is equal
- Karl Marx- Leading figure, father of communism
Women In Progressive Era
- Second Class citezens
- More women started to ge tmore ducation
- Many became teachers
- Pushed for 18th and 19th amendments- Prohibitions and Women's Sufferage
- Seneca Falls Declaration- womens push started at this conference, 1848, plea end of discrimination, voting rights, prohbition, child labor laws, and rid of slavery
1912 Elections
- Roosevelt ran for the progressive party bc they elected Taft for republican
- William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson, and Eugene V. Debs
- Because we had two republican presidents running (and Wilson), Conservate republicans vote for Taft and Progressive Republicans vote for Roosevelt & that means all democrates vote for Woodrow Wilson- meaning Wilson had 42% of all votes
T U E S D A Y-
Who can't vote? Not registered to vote, under 18, if you're not a US citzen, can't have a felony, can't be declared mentally insane by the court.
Ch 10. American Claims an Empire:
- Great empires: Umayyad Caliphate, Yuan Dynasty, Qing Dynasty, Spanish Empire, Russian Empire, Mongol Empire, British Empire (BIGGEST EMPIRE)
- USA was never a huge empire
KEY TERMS
- Diplomacy: How we deal with countries
- Imperialism: Trying to extend ones territorie
- Militarism: Strong military spirit or policy
- Nationalism: devotion and loyalty to one's own country; patriotism.
- Sphere of Influence: any area in which one nation wields dominant power over another or others.
- Protectorate: A bigger country protects a smaller one
- Arbitration: Use of a third-party to make a decison for both parties
OLD DIPLOMACY:
- Noninterventionist (policy of isolation)- US didn't get involved in foreign affairs
- Isolationist- US acted alone in foreign affairs as compared to working w other nations
- Passive and Reactive- US waited for events to occur and then acted accordingly, if it didn't effect us, we wouldn't do anything
- Weak army and navy
NEW DIPLOMACY:
- Imperialistic- Going out and conquering territory to create an empire, Alfred Mahan, Henry Cabot Lodge, Teddy Roosevelt all preached imperialism
- Strong army and navy- Militarism
- Interventionist
W E D N E S D A Y-
- Kim Reynolds won Iowa, 50%-47%
- Republicans win secretary of state
- Democrates win House of represenatives
- Steve King won, 50%-47%
- Very ten years, numbers change and some people do gerrymandering
- To vote: Register, show ID,
T H U R S D A Y-
Monroe Doctrine- A warning to Europe to stay out of the Western Hemesphere
We have troops in 177 countries around the world, five countries we have troops in are: Japan, Germany, South Korea, Italy, Afghanistan, UK, Kuwait, Iraq, Spain, Guam, Turkey, Jordan, etc.
We are stationed all over the world because of WWII and the Cold War- we also don't want countries that we're allied with to be invaded and become communist; also now days we are fighting terrorists
President Trump:
- The US will be focused on "making America great again"
- Generally belives that the US needs to lessen how much money we spend protecting other countries. the countries need to pay us more money for protection
- Other countries in the United Nations need to step up and pay for the UN
Most powerful countries in 1900:
- Great Britain
- Germany
- France
- Austria-Hungary
-Italy
-Russia
-United States
-Ottoman Empire (Turkey)
-Japan
Jim Acosta's white house press pass has been revoked. It was most likely because of how poorly he treated Trump's intern.
F R I D A Y-
Why did US and other coutnries look to imperialism?
- Western fronteir was settles-1890
- Brings military power and prestige to your country
- Naval bases and refueling stations
- Natural Resources ($$$)
- Belief in cultural superiority - white mans burden
- PHILIPPINES
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