Ch. 9.1-Define the Progressive Era and why it started(goals).Amied to restore economic opportunities and correct injustices in American life.4 goals:Protecting social welfarePromoting moral improvementCreating economic reformFostering efficiency-What is prohibition? Why did people want prohibition to come about? What tactics were used to bring about prohibition?Prohibition: The banning of alcoholic beverages. Prohibitionist groups feared that alcohol was undermining american morals.-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?journalists who wrote about the corrupt side of business and public life in mass circulation magazines during the early 20th century became known as muckrakers.-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?-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?secret ballotsinitiativereferendumrecalldirect primary.-What did the 17th Amendment do?in 1913 allowed the people to vote for the senators!Ch. 9.2-Describe the major social changes that affected women during the Progressive Era.19th amendment allowed the women the right to vote.-Describe women's push for suffrage(voting) and the passing of the 19th Amendment.allowed the women the right to vote!-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.known as the trust buster and broke up monopolies.-Square Deal-Breaking up strikes-Regulating railroads-Regulating food and drugsmade acts to make sure everyone was being truthful.-Conservation-Civil RightsCh.9.4-Describe the major accomplishments and problems of William Howard Taft's presidencywas the chief justice in the supreme court.promised to lower tariffs but increased many too.-Payne-Aldrich Tariff-Land disputes-Breaking up trusts-You will have to look elsewhere for some other accomplishments as the book is limited-Break-up of the Republican Partycauses Woodrow Wilson to become president.-Describe the outcome of the 1912 Presidential Election.because of the republican party split that made Woodrow Wilson become president.Ch. 9.5-Describe the major accomplishments/issues of Woodrow as President.-Breaking up trusts-Underwood Tariff-16th Amendmentallowed the government to put a tax on income.-Federal Reserve Systemstronger banksthese banks can issue paper moneyhelp with loans banks in the reserve can save others.-Limits to Progressivism under Wilson
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