Nov. 13th - Nov. 17th

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Monday

• Starting PowerPoint presentations
  • Chapter 9.1
    • Protecting social welfare
    • Promoting moral improvement
    • Creating economic reform
    • Fostering
    • Protecting working children
    • Keating-Owen Act 1916
    • Limit working hours
    • Ex. 1908 case of Muller v. Oregon
    • Elections
    • Secret ballot, initiative, referendum, recall-forces
    • Direct election of senators
    • 17^th amendment
    • Talking about the presentation and adding information
    • Socialism

Tuesday

• Talking about the next test
• Explanations of words that will appear in the next presentations
• 2^nd presentation (mine)

Wednesday

• Repetition yesterday
• Presentation about chapter 9.3
  • Wages-Square Deal
    • Workers were getting paid less
    • Teddy Roosevelt tried to get better paying wages and wanted their rights protected
• 1902 Coal Strike
  • Roosevelt gave both sides a chance
  • Conditions: 20% raise, 9hr work day and the right to organize a union
• Railroad regulation
  • Congress passed the Interstate Commerce Act in 1887
  • Congress passed the Elkins Act
• Trust Busting
  • Many trusts lowered their prices to drive competitors out of the market
  • Roosevelt administration filed 44 antitrust suits…
  • 2^nd presentation about chapter 9.3
    • Roosevelt’s efforts
      • Pushed for meat inspection act
      • Pure food and drug act (Wiley Act)
• Comparison of Good and Bad Meat
• The conservation of wildlife
  • Set aside million acres of land and power sites for preservation
  • Helped with mineral searching
  • Transported water to dry areas
• Roosevelt failed to achieve civil rights for African Americans
• 1905: civil rights conference in Niagara Falls
• 1909: African Americans joined with prominent white reformers in NY to found the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of colored people)
• 1914: over 6000 members

Thursday

• Repetition of the last presentation of yesterday
• Presentation chapter 9.5
  • Federal trade commission
    • Founded in 1914 under president Wilson
    • prevents unfair trade
    • was a movement in the 1890’s
    • still around today
• New Tax Systems
  • 16^th amendment
  • Was meant to be a fair tax system
  • Helped pay funds for the Army, the Government and road/work ways
• Federal reserve
  • Put into place to stop small banks from closing (1913)
  • Central banking system
  • Controls amount of money in circulation and interest rates
  • There are 12 federal reserves
• Clayton Antitrust Act
• Cari Chapman Catt
  • Leader of the women suffrage
  • Wanted the 19^th amendment in the constitution
  • Woodrow Wilson was the first democratic president after a long time
  • Federal Reserve System
    • Federal Reserve Act of 1913
    • 17^th, 18^th and 19^th amendments
      • Direct election of senators (1913)
      • Prohibition (1919)
      • Women’s vote (1920)

Friday

• Review yesterday
• Adamson Act- First law for the 8-hour work day
• Segregation in DC- Wilson brought the segregation of the races back to DC and started it in the military
• Presentation about President Taft
  • Payne Aldrich Tariff
    • The progressives wanted lower taxes
    • Split republican party
    • Taft double sided his opinion
• Dollar Diplomacy
  • America used its economic power to further its interested overseas
  • Mostly used in Latin America
• Mann Act
  • June 25^th, 1910
  • Known as the ‘White Slave Traffic Act’
• Bull Moose Party
• Labor Law
  • Allowed workers to leave
  • Work days were shorter
  • 8-hour work day
• Anti-Trust Legislation
  • Broke up the standard oil company
  • 7 different firms
  • Promote fair competition
• U.S. Postal Saving System
  • Taft established the U.S. Postal Savings System
  • They put their money in depositories where their money grew