William Tweed Became a member of the U.S. house Of representatives. From New York Continually found ways to be apart of major committees. Continued to trade elections for jobs he could acquire for others.

La Follette and the democratic library Lafollette: A republican governor who attacked the current style of party politics. Direct Primary: All party members could vote for a candidate to run in a general election. Initiative : allowed a group of citizens to introduce legislation and required legislature to vote on it. Recall: Provided voters an option to demand a special election to remove an elected official.

In Class Grab a book and read pages Char out the problems and solutions during the period Pay close attention to the square deal and Upton Sinclair.

Square Deal As Roosevelt entered the Presidency he declared that the people would receive a square deal. Roosevelt would give all those equal opportunity. Roosevelt would support unions but not to the detriment of business.

Trust Busting Roosevelt filed a law suit against Northern Securities. (J.P. Morgan’s trust) using the Sherman anti trust act. The first government victory over trusts.

Coal Strike After a group of cola miners saw their wages cut they went on strike. The United miner workers joined them shutting down much of the mines in the country. The strike endangered many as winter came upon the country. Roosevelt had the strike broken up.

The Sinclair contribution

The Jungle In 1904 Sinclair spent seven weeks in disguise, working undercover in Chicago's meatpacking plants to research his fictional exposé, The Jungle. When it appeared in 1906, it became a bestseller.

Teddy Roosevelt There was an overwhelming response to Sinclair’s book Many were disgusted, some protested, and some became vegetarians Roosevelt read the book at the time and shared many of these beliefs. Congress would passed both the meat inspection and Pure Food and Drug Act.

Conservation Roosevelt pushed for leaving resources to those who would follow. Created the national parks. He did so with assistance from Gifford Pinchot

William Howard Taft Taft Successfully began breaking up more trusts that Theodore Roosevelt. At the same time there were two events that caused controversy and lead to people question Taft’s progressive ties. The first event was Taft’s firing of Gifford Pinchot

Tariff

Election of Roosevlet failed to capture the Republican nomination from Taft. Roosevelt returned becoming the nominee to the progressive party, known as the bull moose party. Taft ran on the Republican party Wilson ran for the democratic party. Roosevelt and Taft kept each other so busy that Wilson was able to win the election.

Women’s rights

In class Turn to pages 524 and 525 Define suffrage Heat sort of problems does the early suffrage movement face. What did Susan B. Anthony do and why was it important? What did Alice Paul add to the suffrage movement Who is Carrie Chapman and what is her importance to the suffrage movement.

In class Read through the speech you are given and answer the following questions Who is the your speaker addressing? What is the speaker asking her audience to do? What sort of references does the speaker make? Is the speech actually empowering based on the words used? Why or why not?