Wed Nov 3

[3evan]

TR was a trustbuster which meant he tried to eliminate monopolies, 1902 coal strike got better pay and less hours in a work day, he also passed two act the meat inspection act of 1906 and the pure food and drug act also of 1906, the newlands act of 1902 started irrigation systems, put 148 million acres of forest reserves and built 50 wildlife sanctuaries and many national parks, roosevelt also stepped down from office and said that william howard taft was his hand picked new president, Taft had a background for being a president but he never really considered being a president, only predident to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, dollar diplomacy is where we lent a lot of money to other countries, economic imperialism is where you take over the country by controlling business and banks, broke tobacco and oil trusts, Taft did things that progressives didnt like so Roosevelt and Taft started having some feuds, since he was disliked Roosevelt came back and wanted to run for president again and didnt get nominated, he started the progressive party because taft was voted more by the republicans because he helped out the rich, split the democratic party in half and Roosevelt got shot and they removed the bullet but when he was out of the hospital Woodroe Wilson won the election of 1912, everything the bull moose party supported was definetly progressive things, four different parties the other was a socialist party that was major progressivism like poor take money from the rich so one percent doesnt run the whole country, wilson went into law for college and became a lawyer, he was also the president of new jersey, the clayton anti-trust act set up labor unions and broke up big monopolies, helped us out in world war 1, started the 13th amendment what was the income tax, the underwood tariff cut tariff rates drastically, germany, united states, japan, great britian etc. were some big countries that beileved in imperialism, we paid 7.2 million for alaska in 1867, hawaii was the 50th state and the u.s. didn't even vote on it and we wanted it for all the sugar cane we could plant there, cuba's new dictator is raul castro, they are a pain in our rear because they are a communist country, jose marti destroyed a lot of our property but make it look like spain who did, general valerino weyler sent cubans into concentration camps and many died from lack of medical attention, called the butcher to attract people attention because he was killing cubans even though it wasn't on purpose, in 1895 civil war broke out between cuba and spain, give the pulitzer prize for the best journalist because he got a lot of people to read his newspaper by making catchy headlines that weren't true, enrique dupay le lome called president mckinley called him bitter as in gave in to peer pressure which was one of the biggest reasons why we went to war, spain took weyler out of cuba because we didn't like him which proved that spain didn't want to go to war and neither did we, the main reason we went to war with spain was the sinking of the maine which was a uss battleship that got blown up