Ch. 9.1
-Define the Progressive Era and why it started(goals).
- It started when people started writing about the conditions in factories.
-What is prohibition? Why did people want prohibition to come about? What tactics were used to bring about prohibition?
- Prohibition is the idea of banning all alcohol
-Describe the impact aid organizations had on our country.
-What did the 18th Amendment do and why did people want it?
-What is socialism? How was it started in the United States?
-What/who were muckrakers and what impact did they have on our country?
- People who wrote and exposed the nasty parts of factories
-What did local government do to reform itself during the Progressive Era?
-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?
-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?
-What did the 17th Amendment do?
Ch. 9.2
-Describe the major social changes that affected women during the Progressive Era.
-Describe women's push for suffrage(voting) and the passing of the 19th Amendment.
- The 19th amendment was passed in 1919 giving women the right to vote(finally)
-Describe some women who were leaders in the push for suffrage and temperance.
Ch. 9.3
-Describe the major accomplishments of Teddy Roosevelt as President.
-Square Deal
-Breaking up strikes
- he personally delt with the big coal strike by inviting the peolpe to the white house to settle the dispute.
-Regulating railroads
-Regulating food and drugs
- Made the FDA of the time, which helped food and drugs to be safer and of better quality.
-Conservation
-Civil Rights
Ch.9.4
-Describe the major accomplishments and problems of William Howard Taft's presidency
-Payne-Aldrich Tariff
-Land disputes
-Breaking up trusts
-You will have to look elsewhere for some other accomplishments as the book is limited
-Break-up of the Republican Party
-Describe the outcome of the 1912 Presidential Election.
Ch. 9.5
-Describe the major accomplishments/issues of Woodrow as President.
- The clayton Anti-trust act of 1914 was passed to strengthen the Sherman Anti-Trust act
-Breaking up trusts
-Underwood Tariff
-16th Amendment
-Federal Reserve System
- Still in effect today
-Limits to Progressivism under Wilson
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