Ch. 9.1
-Define the Progressive Era and why it started(goals).
- protect social welfare
-What is prohibition? Why did people want prohibition to come about? What tactics were used to bring about prohibition?
- Prohibition groups feared alcohol was undermining American moral.
- Homemade Alcohol, also known as firewater or moonshine.
-Describe the impact aid organizations had on our country.
- YMCA
-What did the 18th Amendment do and why did people want it?
-What is socialism? How was it started in the United States?
-What/who were muckrakers and what impact did they have on our country?
- journalists who wrote about the corrupt side of business and public life in mass circulation magazines during the early 20th century.
-What did local government do to reform itself during the Progressive Era?
-What did businesses do to bring better efficiency to their business?
- Taylorism? a management fad. Fredrick Winslow Taylor. He found ways to make work faster and more efficient.
- Assembly lines.
- 5 dollars a day 8 hours a day. <--- Henry Ford.
-What did the progressives do to make the workplace safer?
-What did the progressives do to help end or reduce child labor?
-What did progressives do to help workers reduce the number of hours they had to work?
-What did progressives do to bring about better wages for workers?
-What did progressives do to make our country more democratic?
-What did the 17th Amendment do?
- gave more power to the people.
Ch. 9.2
-Describe the major social changes that affected women during the Progressive Era.
-Describe women's push for suffrage(voting) and the passing of the 19th Amendment.
-Describe some women who were leaders in the push for suffrage and temperance.
- Jane Adams
Ch. 9.3
-Describe the major accomplishments of Teddy Roosevelt as President.
-Square Deal
-Breaking up strikes
-Regulating railroads
-Regulating food and drugs
- Made it illegal to sell bad foods. No false advertising on food labels.
-Conservation
-Civil Rights
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
-Break-up of the Republican Party
-Describe the outcome of the 1912 Presidential Election.
Ch. 9.5
-Describe the major accomplishments/issues of Woodrow as President.
-Breaking up trusts
-Underwood Tariff
-Federal Reserve System
-Limits to Progressiveness under Wilson
-Federal Trade commission act
- Still here today... breaks up monopolies.
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