-Define the Progressive Era and why it started(goals).
Protection of social welfare. Promoting moral improvement. Creating economic reform. Fostering efficiency.
-What is prohibition? Why did people want prohibition to come about? What tactics were used to bring about prohibition?
The ban of manufacturing, selling, and transporting alcohol in the US. People wanted it to try to purify America.
-Describe the impact aid organizations had on our country.
Focused on education and gave people in the cities something to do.
-What did the 18th Amendment do and why did people want it?
Prohibition. People wanted to try to purify America.
-What is socialism? How was it started in the United States?
State or Government ownership of everything. No private property. everyone is equal. founded in 1901. Eugene V. Debs.
-What/who were muckrakers and what impact did they have on our country?
They were journalists who wrote bout the corrupt side of business and public life in big magazines and news papers
-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?
banned products made by children in factories from being sold outside of state lines.
-What did progressives do to help workers reduce the number of hours they had to work?
Supreme Court case.
-What did progressives do to bring about better wages for workers?
-What did progressives do to make our country more democratic?
Things became more fair to nearly all Americans. Womens rights.
-What did the 17th Amendment do?
two senators every 6 years. the people decide and vote for senators.
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.
Break up the coal strike. 10% pay increase for workers. lowered work hours.
-Square Deal
-Breaking up strikes
-Regulating railroads
Interstate Commerce Act. Hepburn Act.
-Regulating food and drugs
-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
-You will have to look elsewhere for some other accomplishments as the book is limited
-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
-16th Amendment
-Federal Reserve System
-Limits to Progressivism under Wilson
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