Today in U.S History we are working on finishing our chapter 9 projects.
Women got to vote in the west before the east because ....
*Segregation - Woman in life- not allowed to get jobs, did all the cooking, women in higher education.. Susan b Anthony was the one who lead woman.. Hard for Afica americans to vote they had to take more test and other things.. Blacks were always seperated from white people..
*Regulating food & drugs-- Teddy roselvelt made people invesigate meat plants.. 1906- Meant Inspection Act- cleaness of meat factories.. Children meds contain cocine alchol and other stuff. All aminals had to pass inspection by u.S Drug administratiom..
*Muckrakers -- American jornalist novelists and critics who attemped to expose the abuse of business and corruption in politics...
*Conservation-- 1890s scientist were thinking more about trees. Sequoia was the first nations park. Harrison issued the Presidential Proclamation. National Forest system started. Reservations of land in Wyoming... Farmers would cut trees down to farm, citys dumped all their waste into rivers not landfills...
*Monopolies - Sherman trust Act- Broke up monopolies like Standard Oil. Interstate Commerce Committee created the Act-- Clayton Antie Trust Act- didnt like monoplie.
*Taxation/Banking-Wilson usedd the bully pulpit. Wilson lowered tariff rates. Income tax came into pay. Senate cut tariff rates more than the house did. Tariff-- tax on imports. Because they wanted to force other people from importing other goods form other lands.. Income tax 16th admendment 1913..
*Reforming Election-- Orgen was the first state to use a serect ballot- The 17th Admendment gave voters the right to election people they wanted to be elected.. It allowed everyone to wote for whom they wanted..
*Aid organization- the hull house-- health clinics and others... Promoting public health and educational and craft programs..
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