1. Teddy Roosevelt's background(317-318) very energaqntic president/ person, he is very interest, today is his bday in 1858, his parents were very strong democrats, he had asthema as a child, he was a boxer, went to law schoool then got into politics. graduated at harvard, published books, he was a historian, died of mallaria. fought in Spanish American waqr, then became governer of New York, he was a rupublican, he was hated by new york because he was a progressive and they didnt want change.
2. Teddy Roosevelt's Presidential accomplishments(318-325, 359-362)
3. William Howard Taft's background(outside sources required)
4. William Howard Taft's Presidential accomplishments(328-330, 362-363)
5. Woodrow Wilson's background(333)
6. Woodrow Wilson's Presidential accomplishments(332-335, 363)
7. Election of 1912(330-331)
8. Causes for imperialism in the late 1800's(342-344)
9. Taking Alaska(344)
10. Taking Hawaii(344-345)
11. Causes of the Spanish-American War(346-348)
12. Major battles/generals in the Spanish-American War(348-350)
13. Outcomes/effects of the Spanish-American War(350-351)
14. Ruling Puerto Rico(352-353)
15. Ruling Cuba(353-355)
16. Ruling the Philippines(355)
17. China-Open Door Policy, Boxer Rebellion(356-357)
18. The Anti-Imperialist League(358)
19. Panama Canal(360-361)
20. Problems with Mexico(363-365)
Mr. Bruns finished up his breif summaries
Worker Safety/conditions
child workers rose. children worked to help with family bill. reformers work towards protecting workers and against child labor.............chiildren worked for lower wages and their hands were smaller. ........JENA Assembly lines made production quicker. Ford made is workeers work shorter days and paid good wages because that cost less than hiring new workers.................BRUNS: banned child labor, changed the amount of working hours to 8 hours, workmens compensation, allowed labor unions to exist legally, collective bargaining and going on strike was made legal.
*Reforming elections
since only some people could vote, they reformed elections by letting more people vote. they allowed elections to get rid of people called recalls. voters chose candidates rather than machines. GOVANATOR!!!! ordinary citizens would win state reform. citizens could petition to place initiative.. recall gave voters the option to de-elect popular officials. before 1913, each state legislater chose its own senators
led to seventeeth ammedment. voter, not legislator, accepted and rejected intiative by referendum. initiative or referendum gave more power to the common person. .........................BRUNS: seventeenth ammendment(allowed people to chose who they wanted elected in office), power went to voters, initiative allowed people of the state to start a bill and they would sign a petition to make a new law. once they got their petition it would become a referendum which people would then vote to determine whether they wanted to establish that law or not. People were allowed to recall in which they would vote to take someone in office out of office.
*Segregation
laws were passed against racial segregation. they did not do much to help black poeple if anything they made it worse. Woordrow Wilson promoted segregation. booker t washington belaieved that blacks should not protest for equality. NAACP wilson said he was against lynching to win african american voters, but when he cam einto office he was for lynhching.........................BRUNS: progressives didnt do anything to help. there were some racist progressives. Woodrow Wilson brought segregation to Washington D.C. Progressives gave up the issue of segregation so that they could cover some other issues that they thought would earn them more votes.
*Regulating food & drugs
1906 congress passed the pure food and drug act. this act went against false labeling. it required that everything in the food or drug to be on its label. to prevent harmful products and to......couldnt sell food with misleading labels. saftey concerns arrose with new technologies. variety and uncertainty increased. Drug Importation Act. Child drugs had bad things in them. Roosevelt pushed the meat inspection act. Roosevelts hired experts to investigate unsanitary conditions. labels on food had to be accurate. the Pure Food and Drug act prevented false labeling of food. .............BRUNS:Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act
*Conservation
US forest bureau had 45 million acres of timberlNSIN THE FOREST. cities umped sewge into water. there was over logging and over grazing. FederaL GOVERNMENT preserve forests and set up watre preservations.......coal companies took up land with refuse from mines. National Reclamation Act(Newlands Act) money from the sale of lands in west funded government projects. Roosevlet set aside 148 million acres of forst and other areas for conservation purposes made land bad. everyone was taking advantage of the natrual environment/ recources. coal companies poluted lands with waste from mines. roosevelt conserved 148 million acres of forest. ......................BRUNS:
*Monopolies
Clayton Anti trust act they fought against monopolys. officers would be prosecuted if they formed a monopoly. monopolies were made illegal by the Sherman Antitrust Act..............people wanted government to help workers against big bbusiness. they got rid of monopolies so that people could have equall orportunities. specified that labor unions and farm organizations had a right to exist and would no longer be subjected to antitrust laws. Federal Trade Comission Act- gave the comission power to investigate unfair business practices. They made sure businesses being fair and just, monoplies were when large companies took over small companies, they are good because big businesses thrive ande bad because small businesses got taken down. rooselvet focused on eliminating bad trusts. roosevelt was the trust buster...................BRUNS:
*Taxation/Banking
Larger incomes were taqxed at higher rstes then smaller income. this was known as federal income tax. $4000 is 1% and 500000 is %6 the goverment made lots of money from this.
passsed a law putting banks in every district. federal reserve banks could distribute emergency situations, they could also transfer funds to member banks.This was Wilsons best accomplishment they make money by giving somes to trustwothy customers. they control if prices go up or down. they were built to save banks from going down during a depression. This was a much safer place for peoples money. underwood act waqs signed to help reduce tariff rates they had to have a special session so Wilson could plee his case.tariffs are taxes. they were designed to supply the governmet with money and keep out immigrants. This was the first time that tariffs were drastically rediced ever.taxes replaced tariffs. Wison tried to lower tariffs with nderwood Act. the fedral reserve is a syatem that was head of the banking and made it safer. its a bankers bank................BRUNS:
*Aid Organization(helping poor)
organizations were to help the poor, this was the first time people got together to help, this was very good for our country. reformers helped build new schools. florence kelly played a major part in child labor law. frances wilard acted against the allowance of alcohol in saloons due to violent fights. SUFFURAGE MEANS VOTING RIGHTS. The City of Beautiful Moviment made it more pretty and inspired civic loyalty. YMCA. Social Gosple. slavation army. they all provided asistance for poor....................BRUNS:
*Muckrakers
these were basically investigative reporters. Lincoln Steffens was a leader of muckrakers. they reveiledd to the public how badly they were treated. Upton Sinclair told the world how basly immigrant worker conditions were. Ida M. Tarbell exposed the ruefulness of rockefeller. brought out the truth about how bad conditions were. expossed bad things about society. ..................BRUNS
*Efficiency in the workplace
many progressive leader put ther faith in higher powers to get effivciency in the workplace. in defending an oregon law that permited women factory and laundry workers to work ten hour days. many put beleifs in science to make workers more efficient. Henry Ford peid $5 a day on 8 hour workday this worked because .. TAYLORISM. making things sciancifically more efficient. assembly line made things nmore efficient.
*Women social changes
one in five women had jobs. they fougth for the right to vote. it took 41 years,
the 19th ammendment gave people the right to vote.....................BRUNS:
*Reforming Government
political bosses got votes by bribes and favors. Texas legislators appointed five experts to take over. Robert M La Follet...................BRUNS:
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