Ch. 9.1
-Define the Progressive Era and why it started(goals). When the U.S progressed by better working conditions and woman getting the right to vote.
-What is prohibition? Why did people want prohibition to come about? What tactics were used to bring about prohibition? the banning of alchohol; To stop violence of people; people were commiting crimes, using violence
-Describe the impact aid organizations had on our country. Helped women sufferage, helped to abolish child labor
-What did the 18th Amendment do and why did people want it? Banned alchohol from the U.S. Didn't work because no one followed it.
-What is socialism? How was it started in the United States? The government would help the poor by paying for stuff for them; there were a lot of poor people
-What/who were muckrakers and what impact did they have on our country? Writers that exposed the filth and mad stuff of the society, ex. meat packing, exposed the bad things of standard oil company, exposed the corruption of government; lots of acts were made against those things
-What did local government do to reform itself during the Progressive Era?
-What did businesses do to bring better efficiency to their business? They used assembly lines
-What did the progressives do to make the workplace safer? Better inventions and laws against long hours
-What did the progressives do to help end or reduce child labor? They made laws against it such as the Illinois Factory Act of 1893
-What did progressives do to help workers reduce the number of hours they had to work? they reduced the amount of hours per day and got better wages
-What did progressives do to bring about better wages for workers? minimum wage, higher wages
-What did progressives do to make our country more democratic? secretive voting, initiative-a bill originated by the people rather than wawmakers
-What did the 17th Amendment do? didn't allow child labor
Ch. 9.2
-Describe the major social changes that affected women during the Progressive Era. Right for them to vote, started working in factories instead of just at home
-Describe women's push for suffrage(voting) and the passing of the 19th Amendment. They wanted to have a say in what happened in the government; the 19th Amendment is the right to vote for women
-Describe some women who were leaders in the push for suffrage and temperance. Florence Kelley worked to improve the lives of women and children and she helped pass the Illinois Factory Act which prohibited child labor and limited women's working hours.
Ch. 9.3
-Describe the major accomplishments of Teddy Roosevelt as President.
-Square Deal helped the common people out
-Breaking up strikes Didn't allow them to have the strikes, set up the 1902 coal strike which gave miners better pay and a nine hour work day
-Regulating railroads
-Regulating food and drugs Passed the Pure food and drug act in 1906 and Passed the Meat inspection act in 1906
-Conservation planned management of natural resources
-Civil Rights
Ch.9.4
-Describe the major accomplishments and problems of William Howard Taft's presidency
-Payne-Aldrich Tariff promised to lower tariffs but ended up raising them
-Land disputes
-Breaking up trusts broke up a lot of trusts, even more than Teddy Roosevelt
-You will have to look elsewhere for some other accomplishments as the book is limited
-Break-up of the Republican Party Taft and TR both ran and they were both republicans
-Describe the outcome of the 1912 Presidential Election. TR didn't like that Taft was going to be president again so he ran for president again, and that broke up the republican party. Woodrow Wilson ran as the democrat president and won because the republican party was broke up into 2 people
Ch. 9.5
-Describe the major accomplishments/issues of Woodrow as President.
-Breaking up trusts broke up even more trusts than Teddy Roosevelt
-Underwood Tariff drastically cut tariff rates for the first time since the Civil War
-16th Amendment graduated income tax
-Federal Reserve System america needed stronger banks; Federal Reserve Act divided the nation into 12 districts; it is a "bankers bank"; important to the U.S, we still use the same system today
-Limits to Progressivism under Wilson couldn't do as much
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