AP History Class on Friday, January 19th, 6th Period

In class today we took notes and watched a video clip

The clip was on the feelings of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Dubois towards blacks rights and segregation.

Notes:
Booker T. Washington accomodations didn't work

W.E.B. Dubois wanted to aproach with a scholary attempt but it didn't work so he realized he was going to need help from others.
NAACP was formed
~legal redress committee
~national urbun league
~resurrected the issue of racial equality at a time when many whites had accepted segregation and discrimination as normal

National Progressive Reform

after 1896, leadership came from the white house in the forms of Presidents Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson

Regulating the Trusts
~Roosevelt set out to break bad-trusts
~Roosevelt was not apposed to all truts. he saw government regulation of trusts to ensure U.S. wealth, productivity and raising standard of living

Toward a "Square Deal"
~Coal Miners Strike of 1902
~Roosevelt stunts the miners and threatens the owners with federal troops
~owners agress to 10% raise, 9 hour work days
~promised every american a "square deal" in 1904 election, called for government control, consumer protection and conservation of natural resources

Passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act 1906 and the Meat Inspection Act 1906

Expanding government over environment
~5 national parks, 16 national monuments, and 53 wildlife reserves
~congress got upset and sent a law to Roosevelt, after he read it he bought 17 million acres right before the law took effect

Progressive Movement for the People
~before Roosevelt left office in 1909, he expanded his reform program to include income, inheritance, taxes, and the national workmen's law