Ch. 9.1
-Define the Progressive Era and why it started(goals).
Progressive Era-1890s-1920 where people worked to reform the government and correct social problems by taking power away from the rich and giving it to the common people.
Goals: Protecting Social Welfare-YMCA andSalvation Army, Promoting Moral Improvement, Fostering Efficiency.
-What is prohibition? Why did people want prohibition to come about? What tactics were used to bring about prohibition?
Prohibition-The banning of alcohol.
Because it was destroying American morals.
WTCU and Carrie Nation
-Describe the impact aid organizations had on our country.
-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?
Muckrackers: Journalists who wrote about the corrupt side of business and public life in mass circulation magazines. Ex.-Ida M. Tarbell and Lincoln Steffens and Upton Sinclair.
-What did local government do to reform itself during the Progressive Era?
-What did businesses do to bring better efficiency to their business?
-What did the progressives do to make the workplace safer?
Cut hours down and
-What did the progressives do to help end or reduce child labor?
Made laws for children
-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?
The 17th Amendment.
Initiative-a bill by the people
Referendum-a bot on the initiative
Recall-vote on the elected official if enough citizens asked for it
Primary System-enabled voters to choose canidates for public office.
-What did the 17th Amendment do?
Made it so each state had to elect senators by direct election (people of a state get to choose) instead of by the state's legislature.
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.
Ch. 9.3
-Describe the major accomplishments of Teddy Roosevelt as President.
Panama Cannel
Trustbuster- what he called himself he could tell the difference between good and bad trusts.
-Square Deal
-Breaking up strikes
Didn't take sides when it came to strikes instead he listened to both sides.
-Regulating railroads
Hepburn Act 1906-Designed to disallow the use of monopoly.
-Regulating food and drugs
Food and Drug Act-
-Conservation
First "green" president. Saved millions of acres of natural land. Created 5 national parks, 18 national monuments, and 51 wildlife refuges.
-Civil Rights
Roosevelt believed that whites were superior but some blacks had more power than some whites.
Ch.9.4
-Describe the major accomplishments and problems of William Howard Taft's presidency
-Payne-Aldrich Tariff
Changed average tariff from 46% to 41%.. Made fewer cuts and increased many rates. Lowered some tariffs and higher some other ones.
-Land disputes
He removed 1 million acres of forest and mining lands from the reserved list and returned it to the public domain.
-Breaking up trusts
Anititrust cases-Standard Oil Company and American Tobacco Company
Couldn't distinguish between good and bad trusts
Stopped breaking up trusts from criticism
-Break-up of the Republican Party
Conservitives-supporters of Taft
BULL MOOSE PARTY-supporters of Roosevelt
-Describe the outcome of the 1912 Presidential Election.
Republicans-Taft
Bull Moose Party (progressives)-Roosevelt
Democrats-Woodrow Wilson WON THE ELECTION
Ch. 9.5
-Describe the major accomplishments/issues of Woodrow as President.
-Breaking up trusts (antitrusts=no monopolies)
Federal Trade Commision (FTC)=investigates companies for monopolies
Clayton Anititrust Act of 1914
Underwood Act of 1913
Federal Trade Commission of 1914
-Underwood Tariff
first time he cut tariffs drasticly
-16th Amendment
More money you made the more you got taxed
-Federal Reserve System
Created in 1913 deals with banks. Banks divided into 12 districts and each had a central bank. It maintains stability for financial issues, and to help any.
-Limits to Progressivism under Wilson
Thes was promising to treat blacks equally and to speak out against lynching,
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