We are doing blog discussion for the next few days.
-Temperance Movement-18th Amendment
People wanted to get alcohol banned. Originally they only wanted liquor banned, but they ended up getting all types of alcohol banned. You can not make, sell, import, export, or transport it. You can posses it and consume it, but it cant go anywhere other than your house. The 21st Amendment repealed the 18th amendment. Carrie Nation one of the most important woman in the Woman's suffrage movement.
-Muckrakers-Upton Sinclair, Ida Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens
Muckrakes were journalists who wrote about the bad things in society, instead of all the good things that everybody else wrote about. Upton Sinclair exposed packing plants. He wrote a book called The Jungle, showing how bad it was to work in factories. Ida Tarbell was the only person in her class that graduated from college. She ended up writhing for magazines about what happened in the Standard Oil Company. She wrote a 19 part series about how bad it was to work for him. Lincoln Steffens wanted to learn about all the corruption in the political systems. Because of his work, much of the government is now Mayor's and other things like that.
-Laws making the workplace better, safer, etc
Workman's Compensation is so if you get injured on the job, they will pay you your time that you would have worked, and your medical bills. They also were for Child Labor Laws, and anything that would make the workplace safer.
-Direct Election of US Senators-17th Amendment
-Women's Suffrage Movement-19th Amendment
-Teddy Roosevelt's Background
His dad was Teddy Roosevelt, his real name was Theodore. His first wife died during childbirth, and he got a second wife and had 5 children.
-Teddy Roosevelt's Domestic Presidential Accomplishments/Issues:
1. Square Deal
2. Breaking up strikes
3. Breaking up trusts-trustbuster
4. Regulating railroads-Elkins Act, Hepburn Act
5. Pure Food and Drug Act
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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