Class Notes for Jan. 19, 5th Period
Our period is a little behind on the notes. But here is where we began today:
- Austrialian Ballot: secret ballot; cuts down on the party's power (the machine)
- Personal Registration Laws: progressives want to make sure to crack down on registration; stops abuse on immigrant workers; weakens power of political machines; some people lose the right to vote (b/c of requirements...naturalization)
- 1906, Bureau of immigrantion & Naturalization: an immigrant must naturalize & become a citizen to vote
- Big Cities of immigrant: North, Chicago too
- South uses this to pass laws to make it difficult for African Americans---literacy tests: not fair; not the same ? asked; property qualification(many blacks in the South didn't own land); poll taxes(blacks couldn't afford to pay it)
- W.E.B. Dubois joins w/ Jane Addams & John Dewey to form NAACP
- Women's suffrage: 1890 NAWSA--leaders: Stanton & Anthony; advocate for women's voting; advocate for women's voting; Wyoming: 1st state to give women the right to vote (many states in the West allowed women to vote to "tame" the frontier);19th Amendment
- Most progressive states: NY & Wisconsin
- Booker T. Washington: former slave; from the South
message to African Americans: learn a trade, act like responsible citizens & wait for whites to accept blacks; CONCEPT: accommodationism; Atlanta Expos. Speech in 1895 - W.E.B. Dubois: not a former slave; first African American w/ a Ph.D. out of Harvard
leads Niagara mvmt—demands end to segregation & discriminatory barriers; fight for the right to vote - NAACP: write The Crisis magazine; set up legal redress committee--only way for success; forms Nat’l Urban group: focuses on conditions in urban cities; helps advance Dubois arguments
- Whites had already begun to accept segregation; Dubois would not however
After these notes, we watched a short video. Here are the video notes that I took:
- the belief that blacks are inferior ( portrayed as childlike) was accepted
- most African Americans were trapped in a hostile world; 9 out of 10 lived in the South, where they had no rights---treated as non-citizens
- 1900, poll taxes, tests, etc. stripped blacks in the South of votes; lynchings were common in the South (most were blacks)
- George White of NC put forward a bill to make lynching illegal, but didn’t have a chance since he was the only black legislator left
- Dubois: didn’t feel that blacks could accommodate; believed in power of soc. Science to transform the society
- Atlanta 1899: Sam Hoise was put on display after being lynched; made Dubois realize that soc. Science wouldn’t work but politics would
That’s it for the video notes. We started to take overhead notes again.
Roosevelt was elected VP in 1900 & became Pres. When McKinley died
Regulating Trusts
His justice Dept. prosecuted the N. Securities Co., a RR monopoly. They used the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. The Supreme Court upheld the decision & N. Securities was dissolved.
Roosevelt wasn’t opposed to all trusts. He saw gov’t regulation of the trusts to ensure us wealth, productivity & raising the standard of living
Toward the Square Deal
Roosevelt stunned the mine owners by supporting the miners and threatening to run the mines with federal troops
Over the Economy
Over the Environment
Roosevelt appointed a public lands commission to survey public land & set up a permit system to regulate their use
Mvmt for the PPL
Before he left office in 1909, Roosevelt expanded reform program to include income & inheritance taxes, workers comp., abolition of child labor & 8hr. workday; widened gap b/t Roosevelt & Old Guard
Taft Presidency
Taft won in 1908 after Roosevelt showed his strong support for him
Taft’s battles w/ Congress
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