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Temperance movement- a group of people who wanted to change things in society, against alcohol. Designed to ban alcohol. Group of people, female progressives blamed domestic abuse, cheating on wives, problems of society. January 26th 1919, prohibition started. Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Muckrakers- journalists who exposed problems in society. Upton Sinclair, wrote a book called "the jungle" about disgusting things that went on in meat packing plant
Ida Torbell-Woman muckraker wrote "the history of the standard oil company" exposed what John D Rockefeller, (undersold small businesses)
Lincoln Steffens- Muckraker "shame of the cities" put in McClure's Magenzine
Laws making work place safer- Sherman anti-trust act, Keeting Owen act, child labor laws, workman's comp
17th amendment-
Women's suffrage- women wanted opportunities, got jobs. Started fighting for votes. Elizabeth Katie Stanton, Susan B. Anthony
Teddy Roosevelt- rich family, asthma, near sighted. Joined boxing, Harvard, rowing, hiking, governor of NY police commissioner, vice president, president. Wrote a lot of history books. created arbitrators
Square deal- conversations of natural resources, control of corporations. Made to help the middle class and break down trust. Attack the rich. Help in labor, welfare, edu.
Elkens act- ends rebates
Hepburn act- expands powers of Elken act, increase power of limitations
pure food and drug act- enforced by US food and drug administration. Samuel adams wrote about high alcohol contents and everything going on. Muckraker.
meat inspection act- packing plants were disgusting, rats, bugs. TR looked into it and passed the meat inspection act
conservation- protecting forests
New lands reclamation act- 1902 federal law that funded irrigation for the 20 states of western america
Did little to reduce the suffrage of African Americans
Howard Taft- chief of justice, wasn't good political leader. Congress didn't like him
Tafts accomplishments- payn-aldrich tariff, price on importing goods. High tariffs designed to make people buy things made in America . Progressives wanted taft to take down the high tariff. Balling or Pinshot land dispute- Taft not protecting the environment.
Breaking up trusts- Taft was a hardcore trust buster, standard oil 1911
Gentlemen's agreement- agreement between american and Japan. Japanese were segregated and were angry so they made the agreement
Federal employers liability act -states had own work comp laws, but were inadequate. Fixed it
Policy towards African Americans- didn't really help, still segregated.
Jim Crow law- segregation law
Woodrow Wilson's platform- breaking up monopolies, reduce tariffs, direct election of senators, single term served by pres, independence for the Philippines
William Howard Taft's Platform- breaking up monopolies, post office service better,
bullmoose/progressive party are the same
Socialist candidate, Eugene V Debs- Direct election of pres, social insurance, women's suffrage, shorter work day
Woodrow Wilson won the election
Republican Party split- Due to these prob with taft the reps split into gold guard reps and progressive reps TR did not get the Reps nomination so he decided to run as a third party candidate in the progressive partay
Federal Farm Loan Act- gives money to farmers
Underwood tariff- lowering tariffs from 40% to 25%
The Keating-Owen bill of 1916 was the first child labor bill. The 1900 census revealed that about 2 million children were working in mills, mines, fields, factories, stores, and on city streets. The act banned the sale of products from any factory, shop, or cannery that employed children under the age of 16, and from any facility that had children under the age of 16 works at night or for more than 8 hours a day
The Adamson Act was the first U.S. federal legislation that made an eight-hour workday, with additional pay for overtime work, for interstate railroad workers. The Act was passed in 1916 to avoid a possible disaster of general strike by certain railroad employees.
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