Monday- Forum post leaders shared their topics
Kayla presented her family tree
Jake's group finished presenting (finished notes in last week's post)
Tuesday- Mr. Bruns was gone- We watched the men who made America
Wednesday- Haley and Nicole presented on 9-3
-Describe the major accomplishments of Teddy Roosevelt as President.
- Broke up monopolies
- Stopped big companies like Carnegie, Rockefeller and Morgan
- Used the media to help pass laws
- Federal government was there to help common people
- Used his power, personality and popularity to persuade to get what he wanted
-Square Deal
- Helped middle class
- Didn't favor any group of Americans
- Attacked bad trusts and wealth
-Breaking up strikes
-Regulating railroads
- Railroad workers wanted
- 8 hour work day
- 20% raise
- Government granted them
- 9 hour work day
- 20% raise
-Regulating food and drugs
- Requiring meat to be checked before sold to country
- People were more aware of what was inside of their food
-Conservation
- Americans were misusing our natural resources that were limited
- Roosevelt pushed people to conserve and treat our world better
- Newland act-
- Started irrigation
- Made dams
- 50 wildlife sanctuaries
- 148 million acres of fores preserved
-Policy towards African-Americans
- Didn't support African Americans
- Became acquainted with a few African Americans
- Put them through school
- Booker T. Washington
NAACP-
- Wanted full equality for Colored people
- Had little support during the progressive era
Roosevelt's Background-
- Sick kid
- Went to Harvard
- Fought in the Spanish American war
- Life was:
- Cowboy
- Historian
- Police commissioner
- Naval secretary
- Rough rider
- Governor
- Vice president
- President
- Nobel peace prize winner
- Hunter
Thursday- Continue notes above
Haley and Nicole finished presenting and Mr. Bruns presented
Connor's Group presented 9-4
-Describe the major accomplishments and problems of William Howard Taft's presidency
- Had support from Roosevelt in elections
- Broke up monopolies
- Not popular
-Payne-Aldrich Tariff
- Payne Bill-
- Lowered rates on imported manufactured goods
- The Aldrich Bill-
- Fewer cuts and increase rares
- Payne-aldrich Tariff compromised the two bills
-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.
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