Notes: The Progressive Reform Era 1890-1920
Topics:
-Temperance Movement-18th Amendment
-Muckrakers-Upton Sinclair, Ida Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens
-Laws making the workplace better, safer, etc
-Direct Election of US Senators-17th Amendment
-Women's Suffrage Movement-19th Amendment
-Teddy Roosevelt's Background
-Teddy Roosevelt's Domestic Presidential Accomplishments/Issues:
1. Square Deal
2. Breaking up strikes
3. Breaking up trusts-trustbuster
4. Regulating railroads-Elkins Act, Hepburn Act
5. Pure Food and Drug Act
6. Meat Inspection Act
7. Conservation-Transfer Act, Antiquities Act
8. Newlands Reclamation Act
9. Gentleman's Agreement
10. Federal Employers Liability Act
11. Policy toward African-Americans
-William Howard Taft's Background
-William Howard Taft's Domestic Presidential Accomplishments/Issues:
1. Payne-Aldrich Tariff
2. Ballinger/Pinchot Land Dispute
3. Breaking up trusts
4. Income Tax-16th Amendment
5. Policy towards African-Americans
-1912 Presidential Election
1. Democratic candidate and platform
2. Republican candidate and platform
3. Progressive(Bull Moose) Party and platform
4. Socialist candiate and platforme
5. Results and why Wilson won
-Woodrow Wilson's Background
-Woodrow Wilson's Domestic Presidential Accomplishments/Issues:
1. Clayton Anti-Trust Act
2. Federal Trade Commission Act/Commission
3. Federal Farm Loan Act
4. Underwood Tariff
5. Federal Reserve Act
6. Keating–Owen Act
7. Adamson Act
8. US Neutrality in WWI
9. Policy towards African-Americans
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