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.
-building parks libraries
-YMCA
-Florence Kelly was a person that helped children move into homes.
- Create Economic Reform
-breaking up big companies
- Promote Moral Improvement
- improving the live of the poor.
-prohibition
- 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?
-Socialism- when the government owns the businesses. (Everyone is equally)
-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
They brought laws to stop it
-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
Secret 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.
tried to convince state legislates to grant women the right to vote.
Susana B. Anthony wanted to vote to so she went out and protested.
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
he threatened to take over mine if they wouldn't go back together
the miners won a 10% raise.-Regulating railroads
New lands Reclamation Act
Interstate Commerce Act
Hepburn Act of 1907
-Regulating food and drugs
-Meat Inspection Act in 1906
-Pure Food and Drug Act
-it helped make truthful labels on the food containers
-Conservation
He helped set up national parks
-50 wild sanctuaries
-he sent aside 1.5 million acres of water power sites
-148 million acres of wild life.
-he put animals in certain areas so we had more farm land.
-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.
-he didn't think he was president, he felt that Roosevelt was always at his elbow.
-Payne-Aldrich Tariff
- this was a compromise that only moderated the high rates of the Aldrich Bill
-this upset the progressives-It was suppose to lower tariff but it higher them
-Land disputes
-Breaking up trusts
-Clayton antitrust act
-FTC-Break-up of the Republican Party
-Roosevelt ran as third party because he didn't get the republican nomination
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-Describe the outcome of the 1912 Presidential Election.
Wilson won because Roosevelt 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
-Under Wilson there was 400 cases of illegal behavior in business.
-Underwood Tariff
-reduce tariff rates for the first time since the Civil War
-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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