Today we had presentations.....also showed up where the semester test info is at, and the semester test blog
....Notes....
*Worker Safety/conditions
*Reforming elections
William S. U'ren, Austrailian ballot, 1920 20 states had adopted the secret ballot, 1899-Minn. passed first mandatory state wide primary system, 2/3 states had it by 1915, political machine, Direct Primary System--> iowa cacus
*Segregation
*Regulating food & drugs
*Conservation
became morew concerned about protecting forests, Sequoia National Park was the first, Harrison- Presidentail Proclamation, National Forest System, Reservations of land in Wyoming, save for future generation, by 19th century, Teddy R. 148 million acres for forest land, 80 mil. mineral land and water, and 50 mil. for wild life and national parks, 1905 Gifford Pinchot set as head of U.S. Forest Services
*Monopolies
Sherman Trust Act, breaking up big monopolies, like Standard Oil, Clayton anti- Trust Act strenghtened Sherman Act
*Taxation/Banking
Bully pulpit, tariffs, income tax invented, 16th admendment, 1913, power for govenment to wage income tax, tariff is a tax on imported goods, high tariffs???- to keep other countries goods out of our contry so americans buy our own goods, helped the wealthy, less competion, the more you make the, Underwood Act, Woodrow Wilson worked to lower tariff taxes,
*Aid Organizations-helping poor
Union workers, populists came into play, Knights of Labor, and Farmers Alliance, Red cross, Jane Adams
*Muckrakers
*Efficiency in the workplace
*Women social changes
*Reforming Government
1917, 500 cities had same government, progressive movement
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