On this day we continued wrapping up presentations. We started with Chapter 9 Section 4.Ch. 9.3-Describe the major accomplishments of Teddy Roosevelt as President.-Square Deal. Roosevelt's election campaign was to support every American and not just the richer men. Was Vice President to McKinley, but McKinley was assassinated.-Breaking up trusts. Good trust vs. bad trust. He broke up monopolies, like the Standard Oil Company.-Breaking up strikes. Several coal miners went on strike due to their wages. Roosevelt decided to fire them and put immigrants in for them. They decided to stop and went back to work.-Regulating railroads. Squared away deals with the owners of the railroads, which means everyone pays the same amount to ride on a train. Passed the Elkins act in 1903 and the Hepburn Act in 1906.-Regulating food and drugs. Roosevelt passed the Meat Inspection Act of 1906 and the Pure Food and Drug Act in 1906.-Conservation. Said "our resources were endless". He set aside 148 million acres of forest not to be touched. 1.5 million acres of water, and established 50 wildlife sanctuaries. Mostly out west.-Civil Rights. Roosevelt did not do much to help the African Americans in his time as president.Ch.9.4-Describe the major accomplishments and problems of William Howard Taft's presidency-Payne-Aldrich Tariff. It reduced tariffs. It also raised them a little bit. Overall it upset the progress our nation was having.-Land disputes. Used the Dollar Diplomacy. We would use the military and diplomacy to help promote U.S. business interests overseas.-Breaking up trusts. Finally was able to break up the monopolistic Standard Oil Company. Broke up more trusts than Roosevelt. Was in office while the 16th Amendment was being passed.-Break-up of the Republican Party. Due to the problems with Taft as president, the Republicans split into old-guard and progressive republicans. Roosevelt started a third party in the Progressive Party.-Describe the outcome of the 1912 Presidential Election. Roosevelt and Taft were Republicans, but Taft was conservative and Roosevelt was a progressive canidate. Roosevelt supported many things that would eventually be passed as Amendments. Taft pretty much gave up as canidate. Woodrom Wilson became the president. He was a democrat. Eugene V. Debs was a socialist. Roosevelt and Taft fought each other verbally.Ch. 9.5-Describe the major accomplishments/issues of Woodrow as President.-Breaking up trusts. Passed the Clayton Anti-Trust Act in 1914, and it broke up monopolies. Labor Unions were given the right to exist. Strikes, boycotts, picketing and other things became legal. Federal Trade Commission was established in 1914.-16th Amendment. The 17th, 18th, and 19th were passed. Direct election of senators, prohibition, women's vote.-Federal Reserve System. Passed the Federal Reserve Act of 1913. American needed stronger banks. Divided the nation into 12 districts regional central bank in each district. Now businesses could issue new paper money in panics and depressions. They also gave out loans. Banks would help each other if there was a lack of money.-Limits to Progressivism under Wilson. DId not do much to help the African Americans/Civil Rights movements not until later. Wilson reinstated segregation in Washington, D.C. Did the same in the U.S. military.
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