9/29/14 -
Ch. 8.3:
-What laws and restrictions were put on African-Americans and other minorities after Reconstruction ended? Grandfather clause-kept blacks from voting, Jim Crow Laws-to separate black and white people in public and private facilities. Had to pay tax in order to vote.
-Explain the significance of Plessy vs. Ferguson. The major court case of segregation. Separate but equal except it was separate but unequal.
Ch. 8.4:
-Explain what people did for entertainment in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Went out to see silent movies at local movie theaters, baseball started to get more popular.
9/30/14 - Test
10/1/14 - talked about a a student's family past
10/2/14 - Sick
10/3/14 -
9-1
Define the Progressive Era and why it started(goals). The progressive era was a period of political and social reform in the US.
• protecting social welfare- Made houses for the poor people, Built libraries, Started soup kitchens
• promoting moral improvement- Prohibition, Women’s Suffrage
• creating economic reform- The income gap was very large, Child labor laws enforced, a lot of people were wanting socialism
• fostering efficiency- Started using Child labor laws and had more regulations. Put in assembly lines and did studies on workers efficiency.
What is prohibition? Why did people want prohibition to come about? What tactics were used to bring about prohibition? The banning of alcohol. They thought that it would make the US better because it would boost peoples moral. Groups would enter the bars and start singing and praying. They also encourage them to stop selling alcohol.
-Describe the impact aid organizations had on our country. They had helped with the banning of alcohol. They also impacted the conditions of factory workers and their wages greatly.
What did the 18th Amendment do and why did people want it? It banned the sale of alcohol in the US. They thought it would increase the moral of the people.
-What is socialism? How was it started in the United States? Socialism is the controlling of the government by the community of people. It was started with the progressive movement.
-What did progressives do to bring about better wages for workers? They put into play Workers compensation and child labor laws.
-What did progressives do to make our country more democratic?They started trying to make it more like socialism.
-What did the 17th Amendment do? It allowed the people to elect the senators that represent them.
What did local government do to reform itself during the Progressive Era? They made new laws that were made to improve life.
-What did businesses do to bring better efficiency to their business? Paid the workers more and reduced the hours they had to work
-What did the progressives do to make the workplace safer? They reduced the hours, bettered the conditions and protected children
-What did the progressives do to help end or reduce child labor? Them along with labor unions, pressured the politicians into passing Keating-Owen act.
-What did progressives do to help workers reduce the number of hours they had to work? It started with women, by the progressives saying they were unable to withstand the amount of work they had. Then it went to men.
-What/who were muckrakers and what impact did they have on our country? The muckrakers were journalist, that dug deep and found out what was really going on.
9-2 - I presented on women sufferage
9-3
Teddy Roosevelt- He wasn’t supposed to be president, became president after Mckinley was assassinated, he published 44 books, Roosevelt was very popular with the media and the public, he attended Harvard
Square Deal- It was made for the middle class, the 3 C’s: conservation of natural resources, control of corporations, and consumer protection, pushed to restrict big business
Breaking up strikes- 140,000 coal miners went on strike demanding better pay, hours, and the right to unionize, Roosevelt threatened to take over the coal mines if they didn’t solve the dispute
Regulating railroads- The Interstate Commerce Commission inforced the Interstate Commerce Act which prohibited wealthy railroad owners from charging high prices
Regulating food and drugs- Meat inspection Act, Pure food and drug act
Conservation- Roosevelt set up several national parks, 50 wildlife sanctuaries, and set aside 200+ million acres of forest, water power sites, and land for research
- Policy towards African Americans- Roosevelt failed to support civil rights, but he did support a few individual African Americans
9-4
William Howard Taft had a few great accomplishments in his term as president, but also made a few controversial decisions. A couple of these achievements and “slip ups” include: the Payne-aldrich Tariff, Dollar Diplomacy, sent marines to Nicaragua, Antitrust actions (1911), Webb-Kenyon Interstate Liquor Shipments Act of 1913, and ratified the 16 amendment.
Payne-Aldrich Tariff- Act of 1909 raised tariffs on goods/ Representative Payne introduced a low tariff, but by the time it was put into place, The tariff had risen more rates. Instead of vetoing, Taft passed it and called it the best tariff ever passed by the republicans.
During Taft’s term, there was a dispute over Mexican-American border. In 1911, the two presidents at the time, (Taft and Porfirio Diaz) had a summit over the matter. This was historic. although they hadn’t completely come to an agreement at the time, it eventually happened in 1963. He also appointed Ballinger as secretary of the interior, who gave 1 million acres of forestry back to the people.
In his presidential term, Taft had busted 90 trusts, for example: Standard Oil Company of New Jersey and the American Tobacco Company - won lawsuit against the American Sugar Refining Company it was to break up the sugar trust that rigged prices. Taft went to try and break up U.S. Steel, but then Roosevelt accused him lack of insight unable to distinguish between good and bad trusts.
- The 16th Amendment states that The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several states, and without regard to any census or enumeration (law.cornell.edu)
-Policy towards African-Americans- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) It was suppose to make sure african americans had political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights trying to get rid of racial hatred and discrimination.
The Break-up of the Republican Party was a result of numerous things. Taft was too cautious to hold up both wings of the republican party. Joe Cannon was chairman of the House rules committee, which decides what bills congress looks over.
the outcome of the 1912 Presidential Election was pretty easy to predict. Republicans fell apart by the time the election started. Democrats win Governor Woodrow Wilson’s leadership,endorsed a progressive platform called the New Freedom. Stronger antitrust legislation, banking reform, and reduced tariffs. Both Roosevelt and Wilson believed in a stronger government with big businesses government should be involved.
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