Monday- Kayla presented her family project and then we continued the chapter 9 presentations
Four Goals of Progressivism
1. Protecting social welfare
- Set up settlement houses for poor
- Opened libraries
- Sponsored education classes
- Opened swimming pools
- Set up soup kitchens
- Slum brigades-teach immigrants
2. Promoting moral improvement
- Prohibition
- Carrie Nation-One of the main people pushing for banning alcohol
- Why ban alcohol?
- Women's Suffrage- Giving women the right to vote
3. Creating economic reform
- There was a major unbalance in income and how people lived
- Many turned to "socialism"
- Regulation of railroads
- Regulation of business (Sherman Act)
- Child labor laws
- Women and men working hours reduced
- Workmen's compensation
4. Fostering efficiency
- Scientific management to increase efficiency was used in factories
- Frederick Taylor- Time Management studies
- Assembly Line
- Henry Ford paid workers $5 a day!!
- Progressives also worked for better efficiency in all levels of government
Capitalism
- Economic System
- Income equality- Weakness of Capitalism, lot of poor people
- The means of productions are privately owned
- People own and control business'
- Chance to go from poor to rich
- Laissez-Faire
- Hands off
Socialism
- Social or economic system
- Property and distribution of wealth are determined by the Government
- Government owns and controls' business'
- Weakness- No will (why work hard), no matter how hard they work it doesn't effect their pay, doesn't make them want to work harder
- Elimination of private property, everyone is equal
- Karl Marx
- Leading figure
- Father of Communism
WCTU
- What does this stand for?
- Women's Christian Temperance Union
- Organization that pushed for prohibition
- Spearheaded the crusade for prohibition
- What did these women do?
- Entered saloons and protested
- Would sing and pray in saloons
- Urged bartenders to quit selling liquor
Temperance- Push to ban alcohol
Tuesday- Watched a movie, Mr. Bruns was gone
Wednesday- Finished going over 9.1 and then start 9.3
Thursday- Finished 9.3 and then moved on
Reforming Elections
- States adopt Secret Ballot
- Direct Primary
- Initiative- a bill originated by the people rather than lawmakers
- Referendum- When voters accept or reject the initiative (bill)
- Recall- enabled voters to remove public officials from elected positions
- 17th and 19th Amendments
Charles (Chuck) Grassley (R) and Joni Ernst (R)- Iowa Senators
Ch. 9.3 (My section- no notes)
-Describe the major accomplishments of Teddy Roosevelt as President.
-Square Deal
-Breaking up strikes
-Regulating railroads
-Regulating food and drugs
-Conservation
-Policy towards African-Americans
9.4
Roosevelt became President in 1904- Republican
Roosevelt pledged not to run for re-election in 1908
Hand picked Taft to be President
Easy victory over Bryan
- Roosevelt put all of his support behind Taft
-Describe the major accomplishments and problems of William Howard Taft's presidency
Accomplishments-
Problems-
Did not receive credit for his accomplishments
Not popular as President
Did not do what Teddy wanted him to do
Broke up a lot of monopolies
-Payne-Aldrich Tariff
Tariff- Tax on imported goods
When the house passed the Payne Bill, which lowered rates on imported manufactured goods the Senate proposed an alternative bill, the Aldrich Bill, which made fewer cuts and increased many rates
Taft signed the Payne-Aldrich Tariff, c compromise that only moderated the high rates of Aldrich Bill
- This angered progressives who believed Taft had abandoned progressivism
Friday-
Mr. Bruns was gone so we watched a movie
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