Capitalism- where businesses are owner by people not government.
Socialism- when the government owns the businesses. (Everyone is equally)
- Ch. 9.1
- -Define the Progressive Era and why it started(goals).
- Protect Social Welfare
-reformers worked to help make some conditions in the industrialization better.
-YMCA
-Florence Kelly was a person that helped children move into homes.
- Create Economic Reform
- improving the live of the poor.
-prohibition
- Promote Moral Improvement
-making work places more efficient
- Foster Efficiency
-reduce the work days to 8 hours
-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.
-they started graduating from high school and going to college'
- they started going to college and they didn't have to get married they could do it on there own.
-farm women helped the husband more.
-25% of women started working in manufacturing
-Describe women's push for suffrage(voting) and the passing of the 19th Amendment.
- allowed women the right to vote.
- Three Part Strategy
-Describe some women who were leaders in the push for suffrage and temperance.
-three step plan
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,
He was one of the most successful presidents
He was the first president to leave the country while in office.
He strongly believed in the separation of church and state.
He was home schooled.
first president to fly and it was a wright brothers plane.
-Square Deal
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
-50 wild sanctuaries
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-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.
-He went to Yale
- Didn't aim to a be president.
-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
-Roosevelt ran as third party because he didn't get the republican nomination
-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
-he passed 17th,18th,19th amendments.
-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
-it gave out loans to banks not people.
-Limits to Progressivism under Wilson
He disapointed progressives who forced reform
He didnt help Blacks
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