Monday- Chapter 8 presentations, discuss forum posts. if someone could not pay the poll tax or failed the literacy test then the grandfather Clause took action, Grandfather clause- if you father or grandfather could vote before January 1, 1867.
Tuesday- chapter 7 and 8 quiz
Wednesday- asked Sophie questions
Thursday- chapter 9 presentation
Friday- chapter 9 presentation
Ch. 8.3:
-What laws and restrictions were put on African-Americans and other minorities after Reconstruction ended?- Jim Crow laws- segregation. debt peonage, if you owed a debt to a farmer you had to work as a slave till you payed it off.
-Explain the significance of Plessy v. Ferguson. Plessy claimed that segregation and discrimination was unconstitutional, supreme court ruled that they do not violate the 14th amendment.
Ch. 8.4:
-Explain what people did for entertainment in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Theater, circus, baseball games, silent movies, amusement parks, bicycling, and Wurlitzer- Jukebox. vaudeville-kinda like a talent show.
Ch. 9.1
-Define the Progressive Era and why it started(goals). a period of political and social reform in the U.S.
-What is prohibition? Why did people want prohibition to come about? What tactics were used to bring about prohibition?the banning of alcohol and thought it would make the U.S. better, they went into bars and they would come in and start breaking beer bottles and somewhat forced them to stop selling alcohol
-Describe the impact aid organizations had on our country. they helped the banning of alcohol
-What did the 18th Amendment do and why did people want it? banned the sale of alcohol and sale along with transportation.
-What is socialism? How was it started in the United States? controlling of the government by a community of people, started by the progressive era
-What/who were muckrakers and what impact did they have on our country? journalist that dug deep and found out what was really going on.
-What did local government do to reform itself during the Progressive Era? made new laws that were made to improve life
-What did businesses do to bring better efficiency to their business? Paid the workers more and reduced the hours they had to work
-What did the progressives do to make the workplace safer? reduced hours and bettered conditions and protected children
-What did the progressives do to help end or reduce child labor? pressured the politicians into passing Keating-Owen Act
-What did progressives do to help workers reduce the number of hours they had to work? started with women by them saying women were unable to do the work
-What did progressives do to bring about better wages for workers? they put into play Workers compensation and child Labor laws
-What did progressives do to make our country more democratic? they started making it more like socialism
-What did the 17th Amendment do? allowed the people to elect the senators that represent them
Ch. 9.2
-Describe the major social changes that affected women during the Progressive Era. Women had to take care of their homes and their families men worked, Upper and Middle class could work from home, Women when they got jobs they were paid half as much as men
-Describe women's push for suffrage(voting) and the passing of the 19th Amendment. tried to convince state legislators Wyoming, Utah, Colorado and Idaho granted it, Asked if they were citizens and they agreed but still denied them the right to vote, Pushed a constitutional amendment took 41 years -19th amendment- 1920 gave women the right to vote
-Describe some women who were leaders in the push for suffrage and temperance. Susan. B. Anthony leading proponent of women suffrage, Lucy Stone and Julia Ward Howe were leaders of a women's group called National, american Women Suffrage Association (NAWSA)
Ch. 9.3
-Describe the major accomplishments of Teddy Roosevelt as President.
-Square Deal was made in middle class 3C's: conservation of natural resources, control of corporations, and consumer protection, pushed to restrict big business
-Breaking up strikes 140,000 coal miners went on strict demanding better pay and hours would take over if they didn't solve the problem
-Regulating railroads Interstate Commerce Commission inforced the Interstate Commerce Act which prohibited wealthy railroad owners from charging high prices
-Regulating food and drugs Meat inspection act, pure food and drug Act
-Conservation He set up several national parks
-Policy towards African-Americans Failed to support civil rights.
Ch.9.4
-Describe the major accomplishments and problems of William Howard Taft's presidency
-Payne-Aldrich Tariff Raised tariffs on goods/Representative, Payne introduced low tariff, but by the time it was put into place Taft had risen more rates, Instead of vetoing Taft passed it and called it the best tariff ever passed by the republicans.
-Land disputes Taft and Porfirio Diaz couldn't come to an agreement over the Mexican-American border
-Breaking up trusts Busted 90 trusts because he didn't know the difference between good and bad trusts.
-16th Amendment States that congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes
-Policy towards African-Americans National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) it was supposed to make sure African Americans had political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights trying to get rid of racial hate
-Break-up of the Republican Party Taft was too cautious to hold up both wings of the republican party
-Describe the outcome of the 1912 Presidential Election. Democrats win Governor Woodrow Wilson's leadership.
Ch. 9.5
-Describe the major accomplishments/issues of Woodrow as President.
-Clayton Anti-Trust Act
-Federal Trade Commission Act/Commission
-Federal Farm Loan Act
-Underwood Tariff
-Federal Reserve Act
-Keating Owen Act-
-Adamson Act
-US Neutrality in WWI
-Policy towards African-Americans
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