-Temperance Movement-18th Amendment was designed to band the transportation, selling, and make alcohol and there was women that didn't want this and they joined the WCTU or the Women Christian Temperance Union
-Muckrakers-Upton Sinclair, Ida Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens They were the people that were investigative journalist and Upton Sinclair was one of the bigger ones and he made a book call The Jungle and it about the immigrants and it just happen to be a meat factory .Ida Tarball made a book about monopoly and brought down the Standard Oil.Lincoln Steffens made an articul call Shame of the cities. He exposted Boss Tweed
-Laws making the workplace better, safer, etc They made the 10 hour workdays, first for the women then for the men. They made workers compensation and the stopped child labor
-Direct Election of US Senators-17th Amendment this was the people voting for people instead of the state government and they took the white rich males
-Women's Suffrage Movement-19th Amendment They started fighting for their rights and they slowly got women the ability to vote susan beanthany and Elisibeth staten and they made the 19 amendment. there was a three part plan, get the states to aprove then go to the court then they made an amendment
-Teddy Roosevelt's Background he was from a rich family and he had Asama and he was nearsighted, he was the govern of new york and his resume was second to none, for president. he gave an one and a half after being shot
-Teddy Roosevelt's Domestic Presidential Accomplishments/Issues:
1. Square Deal Consurvation, Control of coperations, and something else that I didn't get. it was designed to attack the higher class and help the middle class
2. Breaking up strikes workers went on strike once and the Government came in and gave them what they wanted but then the price of coal went up and this was in 1902
3. Breaking up trusts-trustbuster this is where the monopolies came to and end and Teddy's weapon was the Sherman anti-trust act
4. Regulating railroads-Elkins Act, Hepburn Act The were Rebates on the railroads because when companies shipped large quantities they would as for refunds. the Hepburn Act was made to surpress the power of the railroads and the Elkins act helped the Hepburn act
5. Pure Food and Drug Act This mainly had to do with the food people were consuming. there was an attack on the coke la cola because of the high cocaine content and high caffeine content
6. Meat Inspection Act Me
7. Conservation-Transfer Act ME , Antiquities Act Government owned property opened to the public
8. Newlands Reclamation Act
9. Gentleman's Agreement
10. Federal Employers Liability Act
11. Policy toward African-Americans
-William Howard Taft's Background
-William Howard Taft's Domestic Presidential Accomplishments/Issues:
1. Payne-Aldrich Tariff the high tariff is designed to make people buy home goods
2. Ballinger/Pinchot Land Dispute this was giving the rich people the land that was set aside
3. Breaking up trusts
4. Income Tax-16th Amendment basicly it was the more you make the more you pay
5. Policy towards African-Americans
-1912 Presidential Election
1. Democratic candidate and platform Wilson
2. Republican candidate and platform Taft
3. Progressive(Bull Moose) Party and platform Teddy Roosevelt
4. Socialist candiate and platforme
5. Results and why Wilson won
-Woodrow Wilson's Background he was a medical doctor and he was raised in a strict house of religion and education. He was a governor of New Jersey
-Woodrow Wilson's Domestic Presidential Accomplishments/Issues:
1. Clayton Anti-Trust Act it was to clarify the Sherman anti-trust act and labor unions were given the right to exist
2. Federal Trade Commission Act/Commission
3. Federal Farm Loan Act this is a federal loan that only farmers can get
4. Underwood Tariff
5. Federal Reserve Act this is the money that we used today and it is a bankers bank
6. Keating–Owen Act
7. Adamson Act
This is where the 8 hour work day and overtime pay
8. US Neutrality in WWI we could trade with both sides. Great Britain stopped our Trade ships but the Germans sank our ships
9. Policy towards African-Americans
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