Thursday, September 27th

Topics:

-Temperance Movement-18th Amendment they wanted alcohol banned overall, amendment passed in 1919, prohibited manufacturing, selling, importing and exporting of it, but was not illegal to have it or drink it

-Muckrakers-Upton Sinclair, Ida Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens they were journalists that exposed the crimes that were happening, they often came up with solutions to these problems too, Upton Sinclair was a muckrakers that exposed how gross the meat packaging plants were and there were boils in the meat, helped passes the pure food drug act, Ida Tarbell wrote about Rockefelder and talked about all of the bad things that were happening in the Standard Oil Company, Lincoln Steffens talked about the corruption of the state governments and how it was rigged

-Laws making the workplace better, safer, etc Workmens compensation which is if you get hurt on the job the job pays for your medical bills and you don’t fired, labor unions,

-Direct Election of US Senators-17th Amendment That everyone could vote instead of just rich white men

-Women's Suffrage Movement-19th Amendment allows women the right to vote

-Teddy Roosevelt's Background 2nd of 4 children, wealthy, his first wife died, remarried then had  or 6 kids, he went to Harvard for four years, become a college boxer and wrestler, went to Germany for a year and then came back into politics, moved to Dakota after his wife died, came back after two years and then went back into politics, became NYC police department chief, went to Cuba and fought in 1899, was elected gov of new york in 1899, was president from 1901 to 1909.

-Teddy Roosevelt's Domestic Presidential Accomplishments/Issues:

1. Square Deal Nickname given to Roosevelt's campaign, Conservation of natural resources, control of big businesses, and consumer protection, made lots of natural parks, meat inspection act, the three C’s

2. Breaking up strikes the coal mine strike,

3. Breaking up trusts-trustbuster broke up over 30 major companies so smaller ones could flourish,

4. Regulating railroads-Elkins Act, Hepburn Act elkins act- lowered prices on railroad service, got rid of the discounts towards rich white people, hepburn act- allowed the government to regulate railroad prices

5. Pure Food and Drug Act passed in 1906, made businesses to put labels on their products to see what is in it, took cocaine out of Coca-Cola, had to be truthful,

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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