Monday- Talk about this week's forum posts. Start 9-2 and 9-3. Notes on bottom.
Tuesday- Watch video about how Veteran's Day started. Continue presentations.
Wednesday- Continue notes.
Thursday-
Friday-
9.2 Key Questions
Describe the major social changes that affected women during the Progressive Era.
- WWI interrupted the campaign for woman suffrage
- Women took the men's jobs in WWI showing the country that they could do hard work
Describe women's push for suffrage (voting) and the passing of the 19th Amendment.
- 1848- Seneca Falls Declaration: Plea for the end of discrimination against women in all spheres of society, including the right to vote
- Women in the mid-late 1800's and early 1900's pushed for 4 things
- Abolition of slaver (13th Amendment 1865)
- Temperance (18th Amendment 1920)
- Women's Suffrage (19th Amendment 1920)
- Child Labor Laws
On Aug 20, 1920, women were given the right to vote
Describe some women who were leaders in the push for suffrage and temperance.
Jeannette Rankin-
- Worked to win suffrage in Washington state
- Was elected the first woman in Congress in 1916
- Voted against WWI and WWII (only vote)
Susan B. Anthony-
150 votes in 10 states and got into the National Constitutional Amendment
Elizabeth Cady Stanton-
Both leaders of National American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA)
Women's Role in Progressive Era
- Many more women were getting an education
- Many became teachers
- Help push for the passing of the 18th and 19th Amendments to the US Constitution
9.3 Key Topics
Theodore Roosevelt
- In 1901 he became the youngest president
- He was a young govenor from NY
- He went to Harvard, College where he boxed, wrestled, and became a smart man
- Before his presidency he was a secretary
1902 coal strike
- 140000 coal miners went on strike
- Roosevelt intervened and called both sides to the white house
- Roosevelt threatened to take over the mines
- After the threats the mine operators and workers submitted differences
Railroad regulation
- Roosevelt's real goal was federal regulation
- The hepburn Act of 1906 limited the distribution of railroad passes
- Roosevelt boosted the government's power to regulate the road
Health and the Environment
- Meat inspection act 1906. Roosevelt
- Pure Food and Drug Act 1906. Truth in labelling
Roosevelt and Civil Rights
- Supported a few African Americans
- Didn't support civil rights as much (he was progressive)
- Supported Booker T. Washington
W.E.B. Du Bois
- Founded the NAACP (National association of advancement of colored people)
- Began the fight for civil rights
- Niagara Meeting
Roosevelt
- Cowboy
- Historian
- Police Commissioner
- Naval Secretary
- Governor of New York
Accomplishments as President
- Used his personality, popular and power of persuasion to get what he wanted
- Believed that the federal government was there to help common people
- Wanted to give everyone a 'square deal'
- Used the 'bully pulpit' to influence media and help pass laws
- Was a 'trustbuster' Broke up monopolies
- Helped settle the 1902 coal strike
- Passed the Elkins act (1903 no rebates) and Hepburn Act (1905-ICC set max RR rates) which required railroads to be fair and just in their prices and practices
- Passed Meat inspection act
- Pure Food and Drug Act
- Newlands Act (1902) sold western land and made dams which allowed for irrigation
- Conservation
Women's Suffrage
- Convince state legislatures to grant women the right to vote
- Court cases to test the 14th amendment (citizenship)
- 19th Amendment in 1920
Chapter 9.4
Accomplishments and problems of Taft's presidency
- William Taft- president after Theodore Roosevelt
- Was not a very initiative leader produced few accomplishments during his term
- Not popular with the American public
Payne Aldrich Tariff
- Compromise between Sereno Payne and Nelson Aldrich.
- Payne's proposal was designed to lower tariff rates (tax on imports/exports)
- Conservative Republicans like Aldrich wanted to protect high tariff rates
The compromise Payne/Aldrich Tariff Act had the effect of reducing tariff rates but also enacted a corporation tax
- Forces people to buy American products
16th Amendment
- The congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes from whatever source derived, without appointment among the several states, and without regard to any census or enumeration
- What it did was take people's money through taxes
Policy towards African Americans
- Roosevelt invited Booker T Washington a black civil rights activists to the white house to dine
- He ended school segregation in NY when he was governor of NY
Breakup of the Republican Party
- In 1912 Taft's conservative policies regarding conservation as well as his targeting of JP Morgan through the Sherman Antitrust Act, declaring his intent to run for president
- After unsuccessfully attempting to gain the Republican nomination, Roosevelt created a separate Progressive Party
Outcome of 1912 Election
- Taft and Roosevelt split up the republican party
- Roosevelt and Taft split the vote
- Democrat Woodrow Wilson won
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