Week of November 16th-20th

Monday: Forum Post leaders presented their topics Took notes over Chapter 9-4

Tuesday: Took notes

Wednesday: Took notes

Thursday: Took notes

Friday: Had no class due to bad weather

NOTES:

Chapter 9-4

William Howard Taft
- Good
  - Trusts- Trustbusters
  - Our Nation as a whole
    - Stayed stable never moved forward
  - Was all for progressivism
- Bad
  - Made poor decisions
  - Consolidated not expanded
  - Angered conservationists
16th Amendment
- The congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration
- Established income tax
Payne-Aldrich Tariff
- Payne= lower rates (House)
- Aldrich= increased rates (Senate)
- Tariffs
  - Tax and imports
  - Why have high tariffs?
    - So that the Americans can make more money since foreign competition out
Policy for African Americans
- If they were able to vote, they would vote Republican]
  - Because they ended slavery and helped them a lot
  - It was a way of thanking them
- Taft
  - Didn't do much to get the African Americans to vote for him they just did since he was Republican
  - Didn't have to
  - Progressives didn't do much to help African Americans
Land Disputes
- Richard Ballinger (Secretary of Interior)
  - Put one million acres of land to the government
    - Conservationists weren't very happy
Break up of Republican Party
- Progressives vs. Conservatives
- Joseph Cannon (Uncle Joe)
  - Very conservative (Speaker of the House)
  - Tried to weaken or ignore the progressive bills
  - Progressives told the house to re-elect a committee
    - They hated him
- Hand to break up
- Bull Moose Party (Progressive Party)
  - Formed from Roosevelt running for president
  - Tries to sway the the Taft delegates
  - Tries to get Republican party
  - Didn't get the Republican party so he runs for the Bull Moose Party
- Taft broke up more trusts than Roosevelt
- 1912 Election
  - Woodrow Wilson won
  - New Freedom
    - Demanded stronger antitrust laws
  - Taft vs. Roosevelt vs. Wilson vs. Debs
    - Different options
      - Wilson offered new freedom
      - Roosevelt offered Progressivism
      - Taft offered Conservationism
Republican Party Split
- Due to these problems with Taft, the Republicans split into old-guard republicans and progressive republicans
- TR did not get the Republican nomination so he decided to run as a third party condidate in the Progressive Party (Bull Moose Party)
- Why would this split guarantee a democrat win?
  - The republicans votes for Taft is they were conservatives and RS is the were Progressives and 100% of democrats would vote for Woodrow
Progressives fought against
- Low tariffs
- Fight back against railroad rates
- Trustbusters give small businesses a chance
- Workmens compensation
- 16th 17th 18th 19th amendments
- Child Labor Laws
Bull Moose Platform
- Direct Election of Senators
- Initiative, Referendum, Recall in all states
- Woman Suffrage
- Worker's Compensation
- 8 hour workday
- Minimum wage for women
- Federal laws against Child labor

Chapter 9-5

New Freedom
- Was full of progressive measures
Wilson's Background
- Grew up in the SOuth after the Civil War and REconstruction
- Son, Grandson and Nephew of Presbyterian Ministers-strict upbringing
- Before entering politics Wilson worked as
  - Lawyer
  - History Professor
  - President of Princeton University
  - Governor of N.J.
Wilson's Accomplishments
- Passed Clayton Antitrust Act (1914)
  - Could break up monopolies
  - Labor Unions were given the right to exist
  - Strikes, boycotts, picketing etc. became legal
- Federal Trade Commision was established in 1914
  - Investigated companies for monopolistic practices
- Federal Reserve System
  - America needed stronger banks
  - Federal Reserve Act of 1913
  - Divided the nation into 12 districts-> regional central bank in each district
  - "Banker Bank"
  - Federal Reserve banks could issue new paper money in emergency situations
  - Also, helped with making out loan $$
  - Banks within the system helped other s from closing due to
  - Controls the U.S. money supply and the availability of credit in the country
  - One of President WIlson's most enduring achievements
  - We use this same system today as the basis of the nation's banking system
  - Can raise and lower interest rates
- 17th 18th 19th Amendments were passed during his term
  - Direct election of senators 1913
  - Prohibition 1919
  - Women's Vote 1920
  - Let us during Mexican Crisis and WWI
  - Developed Missionary Diplomacy
  - African Americans were for the most part ignored by TR, Taft, Wilson and the Progressive Movement
  - Ilson reinstate segregation
- The Twilight of Progressivism

Chapter 10

Domestic Policy vs. Foreign Policy
- Diplomacy
  - Old Diplomacy has the used to deal with other countries around the world up to the 1900
    - Non Interventionist
      - The U.S. did not intervene in foreign affairs, especially Europe's
    - Isolationist
      - The U.S. acted alone in foreign affairs as compared to working with other nations
      - Oceans made isolation possible
    - Passive and reactive
      - The U.S. waited for events to occur and then acted accordingly
    - Weak army and navy
  - New Diplomacy
    - Imperialistic
- Imperialism
- Militarism
- Nationalism
- Sphere of influence
- Protectorate
  - Where one country is being protected and controlled by another country
- Arbitration

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