Read Chapter 17-4 (Progressivism Under Taft) and Chapter 17-5 (Wilson's New Freedom)
1. How did William Howard Taft get selected to run for president?
-William Howard Taft was handpicked by Teddy Roosevelt to run for the president.
2. How did Teddy Roosevelt come to oppose Taft for the presidency in 1912?
-Many people refused to vote and made a third party and Teddy Roosevelt was nominated for the presidency. Taft wasnt making a good effort and wasnt expanding on the Roosevelt reforms.
3. What events helped Woodrow Wilson win the election in 1912?
-He supported small buisnesses and thought of monopolies as a threat which many people agreed with.
4. What legislation did Wilson use to attack trusts and monopolies?
-Wilson used Congress to attack trust and monopolies by making the Clayton Antitrust Act.
5. What was the Nineteenth Amendment?
- the Nineteenth Amendment was a amendment allowing women to vote.
6. How did America's entry into World War II affect the reform movement?
-There is not a chance of the progress of reform when war is the principal part.. Worl war Iput a stop to the reform. Reform efforts stalled so america had to join the war.
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Thursday, October 8, 2009
TR's Swuare Deal
1. How did Roosevelt create the modern presidency?
His leadership and publicity campaigns helped Roosevelt create the modern presidency.
2. How did Roosevelt's intervention in a coal strike set a precedent for federal arbitration?
Becuase he threatned to take over the coal mines and the workers and owners made a agreement.
3. What did Roosevelt do to the trusts and railroads?
He made it so that the wealthy owners could not let them fix high prices by dividing the buisnesses in a given area.
4. What legislation passed during Roosevelt's presidency protected citizens?
A meat inspection act so that people would no longer die from what they eat. The pure food and drug act was also passed so that the truth was in the label so kids would not be givin harmful drugs, grown ups dont take too much, and the food was clearly stated.
5. What did Roosevelt do to protect the environment?
Roosevelt protected the enviornment by not letting people cut down trees, and use of land. He tried to preserve some of the natural resorces for the future. He also put dams across rivers to preserve water.
His leadership and publicity campaigns helped Roosevelt create the modern presidency.
2. How did Roosevelt's intervention in a coal strike set a precedent for federal arbitration?
Becuase he threatned to take over the coal mines and the workers and owners made a agreement.
3. What did Roosevelt do to the trusts and railroads?
He made it so that the wealthy owners could not let them fix high prices by dividing the buisnesses in a given area.
4. What legislation passed during Roosevelt's presidency protected citizens?
A meat inspection act so that people would no longer die from what they eat. The pure food and drug act was also passed so that the truth was in the label so kids would not be givin harmful drugs, grown ups dont take too much, and the food was clearly stated.
5. What did Roosevelt do to protect the environment?
Roosevelt protected the enviornment by not letting people cut down trees, and use of land. He tried to preserve some of the natural resorces for the future. He also put dams across rivers to preserve water.
Sunday, October 4, 2009
Urbanization
1. What is Urbanization?
- growth of cities, mostly in the regions of northeast and midwest
2. For what reasons did a number of Americans move from the country to the cities?
-In the countries there was alot of new inventions which allowed less people to work. So, alot of americans moved from the country to the cities becuase the cities had alot of jobs open and unskilled workers could also work.
3. What were the housing problems that many poor city dwellers faced?
- Most families that immigrated would have to share a house with sometimes 3 families to a tenement and it was very unsanitary and packed. If they wanted to buy a house on the outskirts of town they would have transportation problems so alot of them bought a tenement which had problems.
- growth of cities, mostly in the regions of northeast and midwest
2. For what reasons did a number of Americans move from the country to the cities?
-In the countries there was alot of new inventions which allowed less people to work. So, alot of americans moved from the country to the cities becuase the cities had alot of jobs open and unskilled workers could also work.
3. What were the housing problems that many poor city dwellers faced?
- Most families that immigrated would have to share a house with sometimes 3 families to a tenement and it was very unsanitary and packed. If they wanted to buy a house on the outskirts of town they would have transportation problems so alot of them bought a tenement which had problems.
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