Class notes for 4th period for friday
Sorry this is late.
On friday we turned in our timelines for the project. Then we took notes and watched a video clip. The notes are:
Failure of Booker T Washington accommodations
-progressives main concern was civil rights
-Washington argued that blacks should learn to trade, act like responsible citizens, and wait for whites to notice
-Washington said blacks should accept segregation, lack of voting, and help themselves
-1885 Washington put his ideas in a speech in Atlanta
-speech critized by Ida B Wells and dubious
~Ida first African American to receive a PhD from Harvard
~Dubois lead the Niagara Movement which demanded voting, stop of segregation, and stop of discrimination
NAACP
-worked through the courts
-1914 had thousands of members, Black and White
~Many whites accepted segregation and discrimination as normal
National Progressive reform
-after 1896, leadership came from white house inform of President Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson
-Roosevelt elected as vice-president, in 1900 became president when McKinley shot
Regulation the trusts
-Roosevelt set out to break what he considered bad trusts
-his justice department persecuted north securities company, a railroad monopoly, used the Sherman anti-trust act
-Roosevelt was not opposed to all trust, he saw that government regulation was needed
-ideas called New Nationalism
Towards a square deal
-coal miners act of 1902. Miners wanted a raise and 8 hr workday. owners did not want to negotiate
-Roosevelt supported miners, threatened to run the mine with federal troops
-owners changed
~10% raise and 9 hr workday
-Roosevelt invited Booker T Washington to dinner
-Roosevelt promised all Americans square deal, government control of corporations, consumer protection, and conservation of natural resources
-he got congress to pass hepburn act of 1906, act increases power of government on railroads
-supported pure food and drug act of 1906 and meat inspection act of 1906
environment
-over saw creation of 5 national parks, 15 national monuments, 53 wildlife perserves
-created public land commission to survey land and set up permits
-oversaw national forest service
-old gaurd did not support Progressive ideas
- they wanted to stop the power to create land reserves
-Roosevelt seized 17 million acres before the law was ineffect
-Roosevelt expanded law on income tax and inheritance, national workmen's compensation law, child labor, 8 hr workday
-this widened the gap between Roosevelt and old gaurd
Taft
-won easily in 1908 as Roosevelts hand picked successor
Battles with congress
- alienated progressives when he appeared to side with old gaurd on tariff and powers of speaker of the house
-progressives favored tariff reduction, Taft raised expectations for tariff reduction and didn't rush congress to bring down. Payne- aldrich tariff of 1909 did not encourage imports
Ballinger- Pinchot controversey
-secretary of interior Ballinger aroused progressives by opening 1 million acres of land for private commerical use
-Roosevelt's national forest service lead person Pinchot found that Ballinger was doing something with Alaska's oil deposits
-Pinchot told Tft, Taft backed Ballinger and Pinchot was fired
-hearing this Roosevelt came back from Africa and called for a stronger federal government to stabilize the economy, proect the weak, and restore social harmony
-Roosevelt announced his candidacy for president in 1912, Taft refused to step aside
-Taft wins nomination, supported by old gaurd
-Roosevelt left Republican party and is nominated by progressive party, also called bullmoosers
Platform
-regulation of corporations
-exrensive protection for workers(wage)
-workmen's compensation
On friday we turned in our timelines for the project. Then we took notes and watched a video clip. The notes are:
Failure of Booker T Washington accommodations
-progressives main concern was civil rights
-Washington argued that blacks should learn to trade, act like responsible citizens, and wait for whites to notice
-Washington said blacks should accept segregation, lack of voting, and help themselves
-1885 Washington put his ideas in a speech in Atlanta
-speech critized by Ida B Wells and dubious
~Ida first African American to receive a PhD from Harvard
~Dubois lead the Niagara Movement which demanded voting, stop of segregation, and stop of discrimination
NAACP
-worked through the courts
-1914 had thousands of members, Black and White
~Many whites accepted segregation and discrimination as normal
National Progressive reform
-after 1896, leadership came from white house inform of President Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson
-Roosevelt elected as vice-president, in 1900 became president when McKinley shot
Regulation the trusts
-Roosevelt set out to break what he considered bad trusts
-his justice department persecuted north securities company, a railroad monopoly, used the Sherman anti-trust act
-Roosevelt was not opposed to all trust, he saw that government regulation was needed
-ideas called New Nationalism
Towards a square deal
-coal miners act of 1902. Miners wanted a raise and 8 hr workday. owners did not want to negotiate
-Roosevelt supported miners, threatened to run the mine with federal troops
-owners changed
~10% raise and 9 hr workday
-Roosevelt invited Booker T Washington to dinner
-Roosevelt promised all Americans square deal, government control of corporations, consumer protection, and conservation of natural resources
-he got congress to pass hepburn act of 1906, act increases power of government on railroads
-supported pure food and drug act of 1906 and meat inspection act of 1906
environment
-over saw creation of 5 national parks, 15 national monuments, 53 wildlife perserves
-created public land commission to survey land and set up permits
-oversaw national forest service
-old gaurd did not support Progressive ideas
- they wanted to stop the power to create land reserves
-Roosevelt seized 17 million acres before the law was ineffect
-Roosevelt expanded law on income tax and inheritance, national workmen's compensation law, child labor, 8 hr workday
-this widened the gap between Roosevelt and old gaurd
Taft
-won easily in 1908 as Roosevelts hand picked successor
Battles with congress
- alienated progressives when he appeared to side with old gaurd on tariff and powers of speaker of the house
-progressives favored tariff reduction, Taft raised expectations for tariff reduction and didn't rush congress to bring down. Payne- aldrich tariff of 1909 did not encourage imports
Ballinger- Pinchot controversey
-secretary of interior Ballinger aroused progressives by opening 1 million acres of land for private commerical use
-Roosevelt's national forest service lead person Pinchot found that Ballinger was doing something with Alaska's oil deposits
-Pinchot told Tft, Taft backed Ballinger and Pinchot was fired
-hearing this Roosevelt came back from Africa and called for a stronger federal government to stabilize the economy, proect the weak, and restore social harmony
-Roosevelt announced his candidacy for president in 1912, Taft refused to step aside
-Taft wins nomination, supported by old gaurd
-Roosevelt left Republican party and is nominated by progressive party, also called bullmoosers
Platform
-regulation of corporations
-exrensive protection for workers(wage)
-workmen's compensation
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