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Opener Explain how Woodrow Wilson was able to win the Election of 1912 below. Use the visuals in your notes to help with your explanation.
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The Elephant: “Well, you’ve helped rip me apart and “downed” yourself. I hope you’re satisfied.
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Dad: Presbyterian minister Mom: Daughter of Presbyterian minister May have had a learning disorder
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Dyslexia – Could not read until age 12
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Governor of NJ Professor for 16 years President of Princeton Univ.
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1st to hold regular press conferences
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Plan had 5 main reforms… OR? “New Freedom”: Program to restore competition & entrepreneurial spirit
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Tariff: Tax on imported goods High tariff protected American business
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Underwood Tariff: Reduced average tariff 30% How does the U.S. make up for the lost revenue?
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2. – Income Tax - Tax placed on the money that one makes (income) - 16 th amendment made up for lost revenue from tariffs
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Proposed fed. reserve system: Gov’t has more control over banks
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1913: Congress approves Created 12 regional banks overseen by federal reserve board
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Clayton Antitrust Act: Spelled out specifically what big businesses could not do.
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Example : -Companies could not work to reduce comp. -Price cutting in local markets was forbidden
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Federal Trade Commission: In charge of stopping unfair business practices among companies
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Supported laws requiring companies to have workers’ compensation
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Civil War occurs -Who wins? -What happens to black slaves?
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Jim Crow Laws : Mandated segregation in hotels, restaurants, parks, etc. in South
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1896 - Plessy v Ferguson: separate but equal is constitutional
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- Son of slaves - Paid way through Hampton Institute (school for freed slaves)
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Tuskegee Institute: Trade school for blacks
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Respect from whites Independence Economic success Hard work +
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….then racial equality will be achieved
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Born & raised to free black family in MA 1st black to get Ph D. from Harvard
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Opposed Washington & accommodation Demand immediate equality! Mockingly referred to Booker T. Washington as the “Atlanta Compromise”
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“Accept Jim Crow laws without challenge” “Demand Equality at once! Winning equality is not in developing vocational skills but in voting”
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Jane Addams helped organize the NAACP 1. Women Progressives: Usually supported black reformers
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2. Teddy Roosevelt: “Now as to the Negroes! I entirely agree with you that as a race & in the mass [they] are altogether inferior to the whites.”
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3. Whites in general: Washington’s ideas more acceptable - did not directly challenge white social & political domination.
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Booker T. Washington W.E.B. DuBois
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