History chapter 9

Referendum

A law given to people to receive a direct vote on

Which famous European dictator based many of his policies on American eugenics law?

Adolf hitler

Progressive amendments

16 th amendment, 17th amendment, 18th amendment, 19th amendment

Progressive amendments

16- income tax- the more you make the more you pay 17- direct election of senators 18-prohibition of makin, selling, and transporting alcohol 19- voting rights for women guaranteed

Womens suffrage propaganda poster analysis

Campaigning for the right to vote, states can not deny women the right to vote, western states passed laws allowing women to vote

At what level did progressive reforms go into effect

Cities

Describe cartoon of teddy Roosevelt dressed like Dutch lady with a wooden club

Comes from a cleaning product called old Dutch cleansers, I teddy has Dutch origins, the lady with a club represents how he reformed and changed things and cleaned up society

What was the square deal and what were its 3 main areas of focus?

Conservation of natural resources, control of corporations, consumer protection

What effect did TR's bull moose party have on the result of the election of 1912?

Contributed to the election of Woodrow Wilson the 2 democrat to win president

17 th amendment

Direct election of U.S. senators, political machines weakened

Upton Sinclair

Exposed chicagos meatpacking plants, "the jungle," meat inspection act & pure food and drug act

Jacob riis

Exposed the horrors of living in NY slums, "how the other half lives," influenced NYC police commissioner teddy Roosevelt

Eugenics- basis in social Darwinism, methods, and who is considered "undesirable"

Extension of social Darwinism "cutting edge science," desirable and undesirable traits are inherited, recused people to a status of animals, against public education, charity, and social welfare, undesirables consisted of people with mental disabilities, alcoholism, epilepsy, criminals, blind, deaf, poor, the homeless, immoral, certain ethnic groups. Their way of stopping undesirables was by forcing them to get vasectomies and historectimie

What was the eugenics movement all about? How did it seek to accomplish its goals? What philosophy or ideas were behind their movement?

Extension of social Darwinism considered "cutting edge science," tried to stop undesirables from having children, they thought by making undesirables unable to reproduce, they would minimize undesirables

What does Crony capitalism mean

Gilded age- big businesses bribe government officials to let them do whatever they want

Phrase for progressive amendments

Give MONEY to SENATORS to buy DRINKS for LADIES

Who was Carrie nation and what did she do

Hatchet lady, smashed up bars, mom was crazy and thought she was queen

What was president roosevelts reaction to the Pennsylvania anthracite coal miner strike? How did this differ from previous presidents?

He was mad and threatened to throw mine owner out of windows, he threatened to send federal troops to seize the mines and reopen them, he also forced mine owners to negotiate with their workers

Explain quote: "Rockefeller has never lowered the price if it could be avoided, and in times of public stress he has taken advantage of the very misery of the poor to demand higher prices.... Does it pay the public to trust the control of a great necessity of life to such a man?" Ida Tarbell, the history of standard oil company

Ida Tarbell did not like Rockefeller and his company, she is saying how he is selfish and does not lower his prices

Speaker of house controversy

Joseph cannon mos powerful speaker ever and very conservative, opposed all social welfare programs, had the power to decide which bills would be discussed in the house, progressives wanted to reduce his power but conservatives were opposed to it

Which eugenics founded planned parenthood?

Margaret Sanger

List groups of people who were considered "undesirable" by eugenics

Mental disabilities, epilepsy, alcoholism, criminals, blind, deaf, poor, homeless, immoral, certain ethnic groups

Does "progressive" really mean "progressive"? List the goals of the progressives and decide which ones actually represent progress, and which are really regressive, or backwards

No, positive goals - woman's suffrage, ending child labor, making work place safer, Bad - prohibition, eugenics, these are all regressive

Direct primary

Nomination of a party's candidates for office through a special election of that party's voters

In brief terms, what were four reasons that causes Roosevelt to withdraw his support for Taft, and run against him in the election of 1912?

Payne Aldrich tariff, ballinger Pinchot controversy,speaker of the house controversy, taft's antitrust suit against U.S. steel

4 things progressivists sought to reform

Political corruption, working conditions, child labor, voting rights

What 19th century 3rd party did the progressives draw inspiration from

Populist party

The populists and the progressives had many similar ideas. Why did the populists fail, but the progressives win?

Populists lived in rural areas with less people which means less electoral votes. Progressivism took place in sixties with high population which led to cit laws being change then state laws

18 th amendment

Prohibited making, selling, or transporting alcohol, success of temperance movement, rise of gangsters

Payne-Aldrich tariff

Protective tariff supported by conservatives, Taft decided to support conservative wing

16 th amendment

Provided stable base of income for federal gov. Through graduated taxation, prohibition of alcohol, anyone who works pays taxes

Explain political cartoon of Roosevelt standing over dead baby bear

Roosevelt killed the baby bear that said bad trust and scared the alive baby bear who was named good trusts. The alive baby bear is scared and has to follow the rules of trusts so it doesn't get killed

Compare the "trust busting" of Roosevelt to that of Taft

Roosevelt: believed in good trusts, did not bust every trust, broke up bad trusts to set an example Taft: broke up U.S steel which was a good trust and led to divide of Republican Party, busted twice as many trusts in 4 years as Roosevelt did in 8

Seneca falls convention

Susan b Anthony, Elizabeth candy Stanton, Womens suffrage movements, allowed women to vote

Ballinger-Pinchot controversy

Taft fires Roosevelts secretary of interior Pinchot, Pinchot was a conservationist, ballinger (new guy) was anti-conservation and opened up 1 million acres that Roosevelt had on conservation

Ida Tarbell

Targeted standard oil company's abuses, "the history of standard oil," campaigned for honest gov. And end of business abuse

Which 3 presidents are the progressive presidents

Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow wilson, William H. Taft

Explain picture of teddy Roosevelt playing the piano but its really sticks with nails on them as keeps stabbing pigs so they squeal

Teddy is playing the star spangled banner and the pigs represent different types of trusts that he is prosecuting, he is patriotic by trust busting.

Explain quote: "friends, I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible. I dont know whether you full understand that iu have just been shot; but it tastes more than that to kill a bull Moose! But fortunately I had my manuscript, so you see I was going to make a long speech, and there is a bullet- there is where the bullet went through- and it probably saved me form it going into my heart. The bullet is in me now, so that I cannot make a very long speech, but I will try my best." Theodore Roosevelt, before 1912 bull moose party speech

Teddy was giving a speech when someone tempted to assassinate him. He still gave the perch while he had a bullet in him. His manuscript stopped the bullet from going all the way through to his heart

Describe cartoon of elephant being divided by bull moose which equals Woodrow Wilson riding a donkey

The elephant is being divided by the bull moose party which was created by teddy Roosevelt. This results in Woodrow Wilson and the democrats winning the election. All involved with third party effect.

What was it about the cities that made them a natural place for the beginning of the progressive movement?

They were disgusting they had tenements, horse poop every where, Peloponnesus were buying dirty meat from dirty meat places, the people living in these conditions wanted change and help from the government

Explain quote: "we are prone to speak of the resources of this country as inexhaustible, this is not so. The mineral wealth of the country, the coal, iron, oil, gas,... does not reproduce itself, and therefore is certain to be ultimately exhausted,; and wastefulness today means that our decendants will feel the exhaustion a generation or two before they otherwise would." President Theodore Roosevelt

This quote represents Roosevelt being a conservationist

Explain quote: "there were the wool pluckers, whose hands went to pieces even sooner than the hands of the pickle men; for the pelts of the sheep had to be painted with acid to loosen the wool, and then the pluckers had to pull out this wool with their bare hands, till the acid had eaten their fingers off. There were those who made the tins for the canned meat, and their hands, too, were a maze of cuts, and each cut represented a chance for blood poisoning..." upton Sinclair,"the Jungle"

Upton Sinclair is exposing the Chicago meatpacking industries nad how they are extremely unsanitary. The workers are losing body parts, some dying on the job, and their flesh can sometimes be mixed in with the meat. There is a lot of contamination in these industries.

Initiative

Voters can present proposed legislation directly to electorate

19 th amendment

Voting rights fir all American women

Tafts antitrust suit against U.S steel

Was one of roosevelts good trusts, led to the divide of the republics party

Before the passage of the 19th amendment, women could vote in some states- where were most of these states located?

West

Describe cartoon of women switching rolls with men

Woman's suffrage, if women are allowed to vote then the gender rolls will switch, women would be totally in charge, only way to prevent this is by voting for womens suffrage

Triangle shirtwaist factory fire

Women and men died because of scraps of cloth being lit on fire from cigarette or smt, locked in by factory owners, only on e fire escape, get burned or jump to your death

What does WCTU stand for and what were its goals

Women's christian temperance union, restrictions and bans on alcohol, many states passed dry laws, most cities with immigrants did not vote dry