1. 21.2: Taft and Wilson As Progressives
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Section Title: Taft and Progressivism
Section Title: Wilson and Progressivism
Key Vocabulary- Term & Definition
William Jennings Bryan
William Howard Taft
Sixteenth Amendment
Seventeenth Amendment
Key Vocabulary- Term & Definition
Bull Moose Party
Clayton Antitrust Act
Federal Reserve Act
Segregation
Big Idea: Taft is hand picked by Teddy Roosevelt to carry on the progressive work of the Roosevelt administration.
Big Idea: Wilson continues progressive reforms.
Taft continues to pursue trust breaking – attacking twice as many trusts as Roosevelt.
Taft signs the 16th Amendment giving Congress the power to levy income taxes – spreads the cost of running the government across more people.
Taft signs the 17th Amendment allowing for the election of State Senators – eliminating the corrupt bargaining for senate seats that had been occurring.
While Taft advanced economic, and social reforms he did not actively pursue conservation reform.
Roosevelt joins the race for the presidency in 1912 in the Bull Moose Party. His entrance splits the Republican vote and allows the Democrat, Wilson to gain the Presidency.
Wilson continues attacks on trusts by signing the Clayton Anti-Trust Act. This act prohibits businesses from buying competitor’s stocks and legalizes strikes.
Wilson also signs the Federal Reserve Act which establishes a national banking system that manages and controls the money supply for the country. The FED also controls interest rates – encouraging borrowing by keeping rates low.
Wilson was a believer in segregation so there was little progress toward civil rights in his administration.
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2. 21.3: Women Win New Rights
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Section Title: New Roles for Women
Section Title: Women and Progressivism
Key Vocabulary- Term & Definition
Key Vocabulary- Term & Definition
Settlement houses/Jane Addams
prohibition
Carry A. Nation
Eighteenth Amendment
Big Idea: Women begin to look for purpose outside of the home.
Big Idea: Middle class women become active in social reform movements.
Women are having fewer children and advances in technology are making it easier to get household work done quickly giving women more free time.
Women begin looking for opportunities outside of the home.
Some women become active in social reforms.
More women enter the work force as telephone operators, store clerks, and typists. College educated women become nurses and teachers.
Women like Jane Addams, begin to participate meaningfully social change. Addams and Ellen Starr establish Hull House as a place of support for newly arrived immigrants.
Hull House workers pressured politicians for improved city services.
Carry A. Nation leads the campaign for the prohibition of alcohol.
The prohibition campaign results in the passage of the 18th Amendment.
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3. 3 Big Idea: Women gain the right to vote.
Section Title: Suffrage for Women 3
Key Vocabulary- Term & Definition
suffrage
Susan B. Anthony
Carrie Chapman Catt
Nineteenth Amendment
Big Idea: Women gain the right to vote.
Women unite to demand the right to vote.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton serves as the first president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association which petitions in states around the country for Woman Suffrage.
NAWSA is successful in securing women the right to vote in some western states.
Wilson throws his support behind the 19th Amendment after NAWSA supports the war effort. The 19th Amendment is ratified in 1920.
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4. 20.3: Discrimination Against African Americans
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Section Title: Racism Causes Discrimination
Section Title: African Americans Organize
Key Vocabulary- Term & Definition
literacy
Jim Crow
segregation
Lynching/Ida B. Wells
Key Vocabulary- Term & Definition
Booker T. Washington
W.E.B. DuBois
NAACP
Big Idea: Racist beliefs led to violence and discrimination.
Big Idea: African-American leaders seek civil rights reform.
Whites weaken African American voting power by instituting poll taxes and literacy tests.
Plessy v. Ferguson finds that “separate but equal” doesn’t violate the 14th Amendment – segregation is legal.
Jim Crow laws spread through southern states allowing for the enforcement of segregation.
Between 1885 and 1900 more than 1,500 African Americans are lynched.
DuBois believes that industrial training (as provided by schools like the Tuskegee Institute) will limit African-Americans to sub-standard jobs.
Washington’s position on segregation is known as the Atlanta Compromise. He believes that whites and blacks can work together but lead separate social lives.
DuBois and others form the NAACP to help fight to end segregation and secure civil rights for African-Americans.
Washington opens the Tuskegee Institute to provide African-Americans access to an education he believed would lead them to economic advancement and equality.
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5. 20.5: Society and Mass Culture
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Section Title: Education and Publishing Expand
Section Title: Pleasures of the Consumer Society
Key Vocabulary- Term & Definition
leisure
Joseph Pulitzer
William Randolph Hearst
Mass culture
Key Vocabulary- Term & Definition
consumers
vaudeville
ragtime
Big Idea: Industrialization and urbanization leads to more leisure time and public education increases the nation’s literacy rates.
Big Idea: Innovations produced new items to buy and entertainment experiences.
From the number of children attending school more than doubles.
Increased literacy leads to the rise of newspapers.
To teach immigrant children English, many cities required them to attend school.
More people being able to read leads to people wanted more things to read.
Advertising in newspapers makes Americans aware of new products and places where their money can by spent.
Leisure activities that cater to large numbers of people grow: amusement parks, World Fair, baseball, movies.
Live entertainment like vaudeville shows become more available.
People begin to attend theaters to view movie shows.
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