Monday -
Entertainment
- Sports
- Basketball
- Dr. James Naismith
- First public game in 1892
- Basic rules close to the same
- Baseball
- Invented by Abner Doubleday in 1839
- Major league baseball became big in late 1800's
- Honus Wagner was great player in 1890's
- Football
- More of a college sport
- NFL didn't start until 1920
- Other popular sports
- Tennis
- Golf
- Boxing
- Biking
- Basketball
- Music
- Ragtime
- Cakewalk
- Movies
- Great Great Train Robbery
- World's Fairs
- Focused on technology and inventions
- Ferris Wheel in Chicago
- McKinley was killed in Buffalo
Chapter 9 - The Progressive Reform Era 1890-1920
- Four Goals of Progressives
- Protecting Social Welfare - POOR PEOPLE IN CITIES
- Set up settlement houses for poor
- Opened libraries
- Sponsored education classes
- Opened pools
- Set up soup kitchens
- Slum brigades - teach immigrants
- Promoting Moral Improvement
- Prohibition
- Carrie Nation - destroyed bars with hatchet
- 18th amendment - banned making, selling and transporting alcohol
- Why ban Alcohol?
- husbands beating wives
- cheating on wives
- workers came to work drunk
- breaking up families
- 19th amendment - women's suffrage - women's right to vote
- Creating Economic Reform - FACTORY WORKERS
- Major unbalance in income and how people lived
- Many turned to "Socialism"
- Regulation of railroads
- Regulation of business (Sherman Act)
- Child Labor Laws
- Women and men working hours reduced
- Fostering Efficiency
- Assembly Line
- Henry Ford paid worker $5 a day
- Progressives also worked for better efficiency in all levels of government
- Fredrick Taylor - Time Management studies
- Protecting Social Welfare - POOR PEOPLE IN CITIES
- Progressive movements were funded by rich progressives, churches, an small organizations
- no government funding
- Muckrakers
- Big Role in bringing reform
- Progressives
- Investigative Journalists
- Exposed the problems of society
- Upton Sinclair - The Jungle - meatpacking
- Ida Tarbell - Exposed the ruthless methods of the Standard Oil Company
- Reforming Elections
- States adopt secret ballot
- Direct primary - States chose candidate they want for each party
- Initiative - a bill originated by the people rather than lawmakers
- Referendum when voters accepts or reject the initiative (bill)
- Recall - enabled voters to remove public officials from elected positions
- 17th and 19th Amendments -
- 19th - Women's right to vote
- 17th - Direct election of US Senators
Tuesday -
1848 - Seneca Falls Declaration: Plea for the end of discrimination against women in all spheres of society
Women pushed for 4 things:
Abolition of slavery - 13TH AMENDMENT (1865)
Temperance - 18TH AMENDMENT (1920)
Women's suffrage - 19TH AMENDMENT (1920)
Child labor laws
Western states already had state laws regarding women’s suffrage
Square deal
Roosevelt
Was a trust-buster
Good trusts vs bad trusts
Broke up bad trusts and kept good trusts on a leash
Helped settle the 1902 coal strike
Miners got better pay
9 hr work day
Passed many acts -
Passed the Elkins Act - no rebates and Hepburn Act - max price
Required railroads to be fair and just in prices and practices
Meat inspection Act - 1906
Pure Food and Drug Act - 1906
Newlands act - 1902
Sold western land and made dams that allowed for irrigation
Conservation
Set aside 148 million acres of forest reserves
1.5 million acres of water power sites
Established 10 wildlife sanctuaries and several national parks
Didn’t do much for African-Americans
William Howard Taft
Passed the Aldrich-Tariff which reduced tariffs
Broke more trusts than Roosevelt - broke Standard Oil
16TH AMENDMENT - federal income taxes
People didn’t like him
Wednesday - No School
Thursday - No School
Friday - No School
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