Week of Nov 28-Dec 2

[1Kara]

Monday: notes

Woodrow Wilson

1. Wilson's Accomplishments
   1. Passed Clayton Anti-Trust Act (1914)
      1. Could break up monopolies
   2. Labor Unions were given the right to exist
   3. Strikes, boycotts, picketing, etc., became legal
   4. Federal Trade Commission was established in 1914
      1. Investigated companies for monopolistic practices
   5. Federal Reserve System
      1. America needed stronger banks
      2. Federal Reserve Act of 1913
      3. Divided the nation into 12 districts--regional central bank in each district
      4. "Bankers Bank"
         1. Banks bank at a federal reserve
         2. National bank
      5. Can put money in and out of circulation
         1. Controlling inflation and deflation
   6. 17th, 18th and 19th amendments were passed during his term
      1. Direct Election of senators (1913)
      2. Prohibition (1919)--repealed
      3. Women's Vote (1920)
   7. Keating Owen Act
      1. First federal act fighting child labor
   8. Adamsom Act
      1. Set up an 8 hr workday
   9. African Americans were for the most part ignored by Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson and the Progressive Movement
   10. Wilson reinstated segregation in Washington DC and also started segregation in US military

Tuesday: test

Wednesday: test

Thursday: talked about semester test and WWI project

Friday: work day