Monday- Notes
Ch. 9.2
-Describe the major social changes that affected women during the 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.
- Prohibition womens right to vote.
- Womens Suffrage
-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, inclusing the right to vote.
- Women in the mid-late 1800's and early 1900's pushed for four things:
- Abolition of Slavery
- Temperance
- 19th amendment in 1920 womens right to vote
-Describe some women who were leaders in the push for suffrage and temperance.
- Jeanette Rankin- Worked to win suffrage in Washington State. Was elected the first woman in Congress in 1916. Voted against WWI and WWII(only vote)
Ch. 9.3
-Describe the major accomplishments of Teddy Roosevelt as President.
- In 1901 he became the youngest president
- He went to Harvard College, where he boxed, wrestled, and became a smart man.
-Square Deal
- Elkins Act
- Giving everyone a fair chance
-Breaking up strikes
- He got personally involved in a Coal Miners strike
- Made him favored more
-Regulating railroads
- Roosevelt's real goal was federal regulation
- The Hepburn act of 1906 limited the distribution of free railroad passes.
- Roosevelt boosted the governments power to regulate the railroads
-Regulating food and drugs
- Meat inspection act- 1906
- Pure food and drug act- 1906, Truth in labeling.
-Conservation
- Cutting down less trees
- Stop dumping waste in rivers
- Coal mines everywhere
- Conservation measures
- National Parks
- Wildlife conservation areas
-Policy towards African-Americans
NAACP National Association of Advancement of Colored People
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