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-Temperance Movement Wanted moderation of alcohol. Organizations pushed for alcohol to be banned. Wanted hard liquor to be banned but didn't think beer and wine should be. Passed 18th Amendment which banned alcohol. Was approved in 1919. Prohibited manufacture, import, export, selling, transport. Consuming or possessing alcohol wasn't illegal. Immoral acts were blamed on this. Carrie Nation was part of WCTU Women't Christian Temperance Union. Entered saloons and protested, broke bottles of alcohol with hatchet, would sing and pray in saloons, urged bartenders to quit selling liquor. Grew to 245,000 members.
-Muckrakers- Journalists that would expose crimes that were going on. Would write to congress and that was slow and often didn't have a solution. Printed articles because it was faster. They often offered solutions. Raked up the muck, problems, of society. Upton Sinclair- muckraker that exposed the packing plants. The Jungle, his book, was about what he found when he was in plants and the conditions. Led to the pure Food and Drug acts. Ida Tarbell- Wrote about Standard Oil. Weren't good things. Lincoln Steffens- Wanted to find out about political corruption. Federal Reserve System was something he helped create.
-Laws making the workplace better, safer, etc- Workmen's compensation is when they would get injured and pay for them for distress. Will keep getting salary insted of getting fired. Labor unions were strangthened. Hours went from a lot to 10 work hours and the to 8. Wanted fair pay and minimum wage. Didn't want children to work. Stopped child labor.
-Direct Election of US Senators-17th Amendment People in america get to elect their representatives and senators. before, they were only rich white man and common man didn't really have a voice.
-Women's Suffrage Movement-19th Amendment Gave women the right to vote. Also helped women to be treated more fairly. Still, women don't make as much money as men. Lots of campaigns and rallies. Elizabeth cady stinton and susan b anthony. Important because women can vote now. Is fairer than then. If women couldn't vote today, it wouldn't be fair because women are part of the country too and decisions affect them as well as men.
-Teddy Roosevelt's Background- Born in 1858 in New York. Home schooled mostly. Went to Harvard. Had asthma and had eye problems. His father hated that about him. Wanted him to get strong and ended up lifting weights and boxed. His dad was Teddy Roosevelt. born somewhere at sometime. 2nd of 4 children. Wealthy family. Got married to 1st wife but died during childbirth. Remarried and had 5 or 6 kids.Left his son to go start a ranch and left his kids. He left because he was sad about his first wife's death. Govener of New York. Got asked to be vice president for McKinley. When he was assassinated, Roosevelt became the president. Volunteered to fight in WW1. Wilson didn't want former president to fight and die for his country.
-Teddy Roosevelt's Domestic Presidential Accomplishments/Issues:
1. Square Deal Nickname given to Roosevelt's campaighn platform. conservation of natural resources, control of coorporations, and consumer protections. He controled coorporations by passing laws and breaking up trusts. He made national parks for natural resource protection. Consumer protection he passed pure food and drug act and meat inspection. Helped bring about better food and helped america to be a bit healthier. He wanted everyone to have a fair chance.
2. Breaking up strikes workers of company rebel for better conditions or better pay. Labor union. Mine work was dirty and dangerous so workers went on strike.
3. Breaking up trusts-trustbuster early 1900's. big companies were taking over and expanding. small businesses suffered. wanted to use government but taft wanted to use courts to break them up. broke up many companies. Shouldn't be called trustbuster because he wasnt the only trustbuster but was one of the best.
4. Regulating railroads-Elkins Act helped railroads. people were having troubles with price. designed to lower the price. improved services. it got rid of th free pass and rebates that railroads would give to big businesses. made prices fair for everyone. Hepburn Act improved services of the economic. costs were increasing. tried to improve efficiency and safety of the railroads. raised rates on resources. allowed government to regulate railroad prices.
5. Pure Food and Drug Act passed in 1906. Made companies put labels on foods so people could see what was in it. They couldn't put drugs in food. Cocaine was put in a lot of food before this was passed. Had to be truthful.
6. Meat Inspection Act went to go learn about immigrants, but learned about terrible working conditions. TR was not impressed with meat. Started to have to classify meat. protect citizens from health hazards.
7. Conservation-Transfer Act department of interrior to ag. enforced laws of national park. gave jobs to forest rangers. Antiquities Act set a lot of land for national parks
8. Newlands Reclamation Act act in 1902 and funded irrigation project of 20 states. at first only helped 13 states in western area. set aside money from sales. offered by representative frances g newlands. turned states into better farm land. went from dry to not as dry.
9. Gentleman's Agreement agreement between US and japan. wanted agreement between tow contries. japan didn't like the us being racist in immigration policy. if thy stopped being racist then tey wouldnt send any more immigrants.
10. Federal Employers Liability Act workman's compensation on railroads. hurt on job be paid fwhile recooporating. started with railroad workers but spread to almost every job today.
11. Policy toward African-Americans treated them with respect so they voted for them. he didnt try to stop racism but he treated them nicely. couldnt do anything or would lose other peoples votes. feared he would lose congress's support and c ouldn't get conservation or child labor law acts passed.
-William Howard Taft's Background born on sept 15 1857 and died march 8 1930. 27th president of US . went to yale. born into rich family. got stuck in bathtub. severe obstructive sleep health got bad. retired from chief of justice.
-William Howard Taft's Domestic Presidential Accomplishments/Issues:
1. Payne-Aldrich Tariff tax on imported goods. Tried to get Americans to buy US made products. Designed to protect US from foreign competition. Lower tariffs are the goods. Lowered tariffs on a few things and kept some the same and made higher tariffs. Made lots of people mad. Progressives mad....didnt lower enough. Conservatives mad....lowered them too much.
2. Ballinger/Pinchot Land Dispute Upset Progressives. Roosebelt upset too. Allowed pinchot to sell set aside land to big businesses. Land meant to be conservative.
3. Breaking up trusts broke up between 85-95 trusts. Most of any president. PBroke up standard oil. Broke up almost every trust. Not just bad trusts. Misinterpreted law.
4. Income Tax-16th Amendment allowed government to put federal income tax.
5. Policy towards African-Americans he wasn't against them but wanted to help them. Just enforced laws. NAACP National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Got rid of grandfather clause. Endorced a black spokes person....Booker T Washington.
-1912 Presidential Election
1. Democratic candidate and platform Woodrow Wilson --Reduced tariff, break up monopolies, federal income tax, women's right to vote, currency reform. Against Taft. Very progressive.
2. Republican candidate and platform William Howard taft break up monopolies and tariff reform
3. Progressive(Bull Moose) Party and platform Teddy Roosevelt Go regulate monopolies, strengthened sherman antitrust act, minimum wage, 8 hour work day, conservation, national highways,
4. Socialist candiate and platforme Eugene v debs. same as wilson and roosevelt.
5. Results and why Wilson won. only got 42% of popular vote. he got all democratic votes. republican was split between roosevelt and taft.
-Woodrow Wilson's Background Born in 1856. 1910-1912 was govenor of NJ. Suffered a stroke and left side was paralyzed. Wife ran the presidency for the last year of his presidency because he couldn't work. Died in 1924. Went to Princeton.
-Woodrow Wilson's Domestic Presidential Accomplishments/Issues:
1. Clayton Anti-Trust Act could break up monopolies. gave labor unions legal rights to exist. couldnt get fired for joining a labor union, strikes, boycotts, picketing.
2. Federal Trade Commission Act/Commission Go after companies to look after consumers. can break companies up. investigated companies for monopolistic practices. BROKE UP MONOPOLIES
3. Federal Farm Loan Act 1916 to increase credit to rural/family farms. gave them more loans to put on land. farm loan board- 12 banks, 10 farm loan associations. They could increase farms for better efficiency.
4. Underwood Tariff reduced tariffs on many items from like 40% to 25%. more consumers.
5. Federal Reserve Act In times of panics, people would run to banks and take out their money. when bank was out of money they would close forever. could issue new paper money in emergency situations. also helped with giving out loans. banks within the system helped others from closing due to lack of money. controled inflation.raise or lower interest rates. in times of depression, lower interest rates encourage people to spend money. when economy is good they rais interest.
6. Keating–Owen Act deal with eliminating child labor. declared unconstitutional
7. Adamson Act passed for 8 hour work day. getting paid for over time within the railroad industry
8. US Neutrality in WWI would not fight but supplied both sides. tried to supply both german and british. british blocked german ports and germany thought US was taking sides so they fought against US. Declared peace between US and germany. British destroyed US ships and their relationship went down from their.
9. Policy towards African-Americans helping them was not #1 on agenda. easy for him to turn away from them. wasn't the nicest to them. segregated DC.
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haha really? they aren't too good buy i hope they helped:)
Thank you, Jenna! I used your notes today.