Week of November 2-November 6

Monday- Discussed forum posts. Continued family presentations and chapter 9 presentations

-Define the Progressive Era, why it started and it goals.
- Was when people tried to fix economic opportunities and to correct injustices in life
- Protect Social Welfare
  - Set up settlement houses for poor
  - Opened libraries
  - Sponsored education classes
  - Opened swimming pools
  - Set up soup kitchens
  - Slum brigades-teach immigrants
- Promoting Moral Improvement
  - Prohibition
  - Carrie Nation
  - Why ban alcohol?
  - Women's Suffrage
  - WCTU- Woman's Christian Temperance Union
  - 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
  - The WCTU grew from a small, Midwestern group to a national organization consisting of 245,000 members by 1911
- 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
  - Woman and men working hours reduced
  - Workmen's compensation
  - Capitalism
    - Economic System
    - The means of production are privately owned
    - People own and control business'
    - Chance to go from poor to rich
    - Laissez-Faire
      Hands off
    - Weakness is income inequality
  - Socialism
    - Social of Economic system
    - Property and distribution of wealth are determined by the Government
    - Government owns and controls business'
    - Elimination of private property, everyone is equal
    - Karl Marx
      Leading figure
      Father of Communism
    - Weakness is that nobody wants to work because you will get paid the same no matter what
- 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
-What is prohibition? Why did people want prohibition to come about? What tactics were used to bring about prohibition?
- The national banning of sale, transportation, importation and production of alcohol, consumption of alcohol lead to lots of fighting, addiction, being irresponsible, also because a lot of people thought of it as a sin
- Some ways people fought it were: walking into bars and destroying bottles of alcohol, they stopped buying alcohol so business production went down
-Describe the impact aid organizations had on our country.
-What did the 18th Amendment do and why did people want it?
-What is socialism? How was it started in the United States?
-What/who were muckrakers and what impact did they have on our country?
-What did businesses do to bring better efficiency to their business?
-What did the progressives do to make the workplace safer?
-What did the progressives do to help end or reduce child labor?
-What did progressives do to help workers reduce the number of hours they had to work?
- Many states enforced a 10 hour work day for both men and women
- Progressives also succeeded in winning workers' compensation for family members of hurt or killed workers
-What did progressives do to bring about better wages for workers?
-What did progressives do to make our country more democratic?
-What did the 17th Amendment do?

Tuesday- Watched "The Men Who Built America"

Wednesday-

-What did progressives do to make our country more democratic?
- 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
  - 17th Amendment
    - 1913
    - Direct election of U.S. Senators (people of the state choose)
    - Iowa Senators (Chuck Grassley (R) and Joni Ernst (R))

9-3- Haley and Nicole

-Describe the major accomplishments of Teddy Roosevelt as President.

President in 1901
Surprised people
Advancing programs
- Personality
- Popularity
- Leadership
- Publicity
Believed it was the president's duty to assist everyone (except the rich) unless the law forbids it
Prosecution monopolies (trust busting)
1902 ordered the Justice Department to sue the Northern Securities Company
1904 Supreme Court got rid of the company

-Square Deal

-Breaking up strikes

140,000 coal miners in Pennsylvania went on strike
20% raise, nine hour work day, organize a union
1903 the commission issued a settlement
10% raise, nine hour work day, union (compromise)
Since this the president should intervene when a strike threatens public welfare and the federal government

-Regulating railroads

Elkins Act-1906
- Illegal for railroad officials to give, and shippers to receive, rebates for using particular railroads
- Railroads could not change set rates without notifying the public
Hepburn Act- 1906
- Limited the distribution of free railroad passes
- ICC power to set maximum railroad rates
- Boosted the government's power to regulate railroads

-Regulating food and drugs

Meat inspection act- Roosevelt
Compromise won
Government- Paying
Canned goods
Pure Food and Drug Act
Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley
- Chief Chemist- Department of Agriculture
Criticized manufacturers
- Harmful preservatives
Pure Food and Drug Act
- Halted
  - Contaminated foods and medicine
- Truth
  - Labeling

-Conservation

-Policy towards African-Americans

Thursday-

Chapter 9-3

-Conservation

Late 19th century
Pioneer Farmers
- Forests
- Prairies
Cattle
- Overgraze
Lumber companies
- neglected to plant
Cities
- Sewage-dumped
- Wastes-rivers
- Health Hazards
Newlands Act- 1902
- Sold western land and made dams which allowed for irrigation

-Policy towards African-Americans

Failed to support
- African Americans
Supported a few individual African Americans
Booker T. Washington
- Tuskegee Normal
- Industrial Institute
  - Training school
W.E.B. Du Bois
Civil Rights conference- 1905
- Niagara Falls
- (Niagara Movement)
1909- joined with white reformers
NAACP
- National Association of Colored People
6,000-1914
Full equality
Little support in Progressive Movement
Progressive movement
- needs of middle class
Presidents to follow did little to advance
- William Taft
- Woodrow Wilson

-Square Deal

Formed upon three basic ideas
- Conservation of natural resources
- Control of corporations
- Consumer protection
Three C's
Help middle class citizens
Attacked wealth and bad trusts
Protect business
- extreme demands of organized labor
Not to favor any group of Americans
- Be fair to all

-Describe the major accomplishments of Teddy Roosevelt as President.

Used his personality, popularity, 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"

9.4- Dylan, Ronald, Connor

1904, Republican
Roosevelt pledged not to run for reelection in 1908
He hand picked Taft to be president
They had an easy victory over Bryan
Roosevelt didn't run for president and put all of his support behind Taft and that is basically how Taft won because Roosevelt was popular

-Describe the major accomplishments and problems of William Howard Taft's presidency

He received little credit for his accomplishments
He was not a popular president
Taft didn't do what Teddy wanted him to do
Taft broke up more monopolies than Roosevelt did

-Payne-Aldrich Tariff

Payne Bill
- lowered rates on imported manufactured goods
Aldrich Bill
- Made fewer cuts and increased many rates
Taft signed the Payne Aldrich Tariff, a compromise that only moderated the high rates of the Aldrich Bill
This angered progressives who believed Taft had abandoned progressivism

-Land disputes

-Breaking up trusts

-16th Amendment

-Policy towards African-Americans

-Break-up of the Republican Party

-Describe the outcome of the 1912 Presidential Election.

Friday-

Blogs

Week of November 2-November 6

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