Monday- Chapter 9 Section 4 Notes
William Howard Taft
- Broke trusts
- Was all for progressive
- Consolidated not expanded
- Angered conservatives
- Only president to hold public office after leaving the White House
- Lawyer then the Secretary of War
16th Amendment
- Can collect taxes on certain amounts of money over $3,000
- Ratified in 1913
- First it was over turned because they thought it wasn't fair
- It's income taxes
Payne- Aldrich Tariff
- Payne= lower rates (House)
- Aldrich= increased rates (States)
- Taft betrayal
- Tariff= a tax on imports
- The more it costs to import, the less consumers will want to buy them
- Keep money in America
Policy for African Americans
- Were republicans because they got rid of slavery
- Taft didn't really try to get blacks to vote for him
- Progressives didn't do very much to help African Americans
- Racism
- Politics
Land Disputes
- Richard Ballinger- Secretary of interior
- 1 million Acres
Break up of the Republican Party
- Progressives vs. Conservatives
- Joseph Cannon (Conservative Republican)
- Had to break up
- Bull Moose Party
- Taft was not doing a good job
- Roosevelt runs for the Bull Moose Party
- It's the Progressive Party
Breaking up Trusts
- Broke up monopolies
- Standard Oil company
- Taft broke up more than Roosevelt
1912 Election
- Woodrow Wilson
- New Freedom
- Taft vs. Roosevelt vs. Wilson vs. Debs (called for end of Capitalism)
- Wilson knew he would win because the others were destroying themselves)
- Different opinions
Ch.9.4
-Describe the major accomplishments and problems of William Howard Taft's presidency
-Payne-Aldrich Tariff
-Land disputes
-Breaking up trusts
-16th Amendment
-Policy towards African-Americans
-Break-up of the Republican Party
-Describe the outcome of the 1912 Presidential Election.
Tuesday- Chapter 9 Section 5 Notes
Taft
- wasn't liked because he followed a good president
- promised to lower tariffs which didn't help the rich
Republican Party Split
- Due to problems with Taft, the Republicans split into old-guard republicans and progressive rep
- TR didn't get the R. nominations and tried to go for Bull Moose Party
Bull-Moose Platform
- Direct elections of Senators
- women's suffrage
- worker's compensation
- 8 hour work days
- minimum wage for women
- Child labor laws
Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom and Accomplishments
- Full of Progressive measures
- Passed Clayton Anti-Trust Act (1914)
- Could break up monopolies
- Labor unions were given the right to exists
- Strikes, boycotts, picketing etc. became legal
- Federal Trade Commission was established in 1914
- Investigated companies that could be breaking the law (breaking monopolies)
Federal Reserve System
- America needed stronger banks
- Federal Reserve Act 1913
- Controls the US money supply and the availability of credit in the country
- One of President Wilson's most enduring achievements
- We use this same system today as the basis of the nation's banking system
- Divided into 12 districts
- "Bankers Bank"
- Helped give out loans
- helped each other out
- If one regular bank failed, then these banks would help them so they wouldn't close
- Raise and lower interest rates
*Led US during the Mexican Crisis and WWII
**Developed missionary diplomacy
Ch. 9.5
-Describe the major accomplishments/issues of Woodrow as President.
-Clayton Anti-Trust Act
-Federal Trade Commission Act/Commission
-Federal Farm Loan Act
-Underwood Tariff
-Federal Reserve Act
-Keating–Owen Act
-Adamson Act
-US Neutrality in WWI
-Policy towards African-Americans
Wednesday- Chapter 10 Section 1 notes
Domestic Policy VS. Foreign Policy
- Domestic- things in our country
Key Terms
- Diplomacy- The work of maintaining good relations between governments and different countries (dealing with problems without causing hard feelings)
- Imperialism- Forcefully taking land for their own benefit (empire building- powerful countries taking over weaker countries)
- Militarism- solving problems by a military force (having a strong military and using it to defend the country)
- Nationalism- Love of your country (patriotic feelings)
- Sphere of influence- Countries pressuring other countries to do things (intimidating)
- Protectorate- A country is being controlled or protected by a stronger country
- Arbitration- resorting to a higher power to settle disputes (a neutral 3rd person)
Old Diplomacy
- 1. Non interventionists
- the US did not intervene in foreign affairs, especially Europe's
- 2. Isolationists
- the US acted alone in foreign affairs as compared to working with other nations
- 3. Passive and reactive
- the US waited fore event to occur and then acted accordingly
- 4. Weak army and navy
- Don't get into alliances because it'll get you into war more often
- Had our own issues to deal with
New Diplomacy
Thursday- Gone for All-State Band
Friday- Gone for All-State Band
Pros and Cons of Purchasing Alaska
Pros-
- New place to settle land
- great fish (like salmon) for economic opportunities
- fur trade
- Lots of coastline (easier to access it/ sail there)
- Produced great revenue in mining (oil, gold, and zinc)
- Increased the US size by 20%
Cons-
- Not very good land to grow crops
- Native Americans there were "hostile" toward people trying to settle there
- Too much money- would only cause the US to go in even more debt (waste of money)
- The amount of money that Alaska's land would give us was small for what we were going to pay
- Alaska's economy effected Alaskans and not the other parts of the United States
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