https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j Progressivism and WWI en-us 2017-01-25 15:12:29 UTC 2018-01-24 19:32:26 UTC hello@padlet.com jl2110 https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j/wish/149379885 -Teddy Roosevelt:
-Was originally Vice President and then President McKinley was assassinated so Teddy Roosevelt became the president
     -He was an activist president who knew how to guide public opinion
-He refused to ignore social inequalities
-Believed government agencies should be run by experts
     -Created "the Square Deal"
     -Wanted to get rid of bad trusts
     -For the first time Supreme Court ordered a monopoly broken up
     -Created the 1st national conservation policy

-William Howard Taft:
     -Teddy Roosevelt kept his word and did not run for a third term as president so he picked William Howard Taft as a nominee for president
-Taft did not trust government to regulate business behavior
- Tended to side with conservative Republicans


-Election of 1912:
  -After Taft's first term as president, Teddy Roosevelt decided he wanted to run for president again (despite him saying he wouldn't run a third time)
-Since Taft and Roosevelt both were republican, there was a divide in the Republican Party (conservative republicans wanted Taft)
-Teddy Roosevelt decided to create the Progressive Party (Bull Moose Party)
- Woodrow Wilson (the democratic nominee) ended up winning as a progressive reformer
-THE ELECTION OF 1912 WAS THE MOST SIGNIFICANT 3-WAY ELECTION SINCE 1860 (Lincoln, Douglas, and Breckenridge)


-Woodrow Wilson:
     -Believed in a strong, activist leadership and helped push through many "New Freedom" ideas 
-Wilson pushed for more social reforms but WWI distracted Americans from progressive reform
-He supported women's suffrage, defended unions' right to collectively bargain, endorsed 8 hour work day for all workers]]> 2017-01-25 16:41:33 UTC https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j/wish/149379885 jl2110 https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j/wish/149380589 -18th ammendment made alcohol illegal
-Mann Act made taking prostitutes across state lines illegal in 1915
-Hepburn Act increased the ICC's power to set maximum  railroad rates and investigate railroad company financial records


]]> 2017-01-25 16:42:56 UTC https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j/wish/149380589 jl2110 https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j/wish/149380641 -Wrote "History of the Standard Oil Company"
-She exposed the Standard Oil Company because her father used to work there when she was growing up and he faced hate, suspicion, and fear. She proved that the Standard Oil Company was preying on its competition and was rigging the prices of railroads
-Revealed Rockefeller's ruthless business practices]]> 2017-01-25 16:43:04 UTC https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j/wish/149380641 jl2110 https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j/wish/149380659 -Wrote "The Jungle"
-Exploited the harsh realities and poor sanitary conditions of  the  meat packing industry
-This allowed for the passing of the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act (both passed in 1906)
-Led to the investigation of the meatpacking industry and improved sanitation]]> 2017-01-25 16:43:07 UTC https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j/wish/149380659 jl2110 https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j/wish/149380737 -Wrote "Shame of the Cities
-Talked about corrupt political machines in big U.S. cities
-Wanted to draw attention to the public's willingness in allowing corruption to continue
-Exposed corrupt political machine bosses]]> 2017-01-25 16:43:20 UTC https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j/wish/149380737 jl2110 https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j/wish/149380847 -She was a reformer who fought for child labor laws and improved conditions for working women]]> 2017-01-25 16:43:36 UTC https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j/wish/149380847 jl2110 https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j/wish/149380967 -Founded the Hull House in Chicago
-Created settlement houses to aid the poor
-Built in slums
-Offered health care, cheap food, and baths]]> 2017-01-25 16:43:50 UTC https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j/wish/149380967 jl2110 https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j/wish/149380984 -Work done under Taft presidency but wasn't ratified while he was president
-Created a national income tax]]> 2017-01-25 16:43:53 UTC https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j/wish/149380984 jl2110 https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j/wish/149381054 -Work done under Taft presidency but wasn't ratified while he was president
-Direct election of US senators
-(1913) gave Congress the power to tax income. Passed in 1913, this amendment to the Constitution calls for the direct election of senators by the voters instead of their election by state legislatures. ]]> 2017-01-25 16:44:06 UTC https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j/wish/149381054 jl2110 https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j/wish/149381090 -Outlawed alcohol because of reports of alcohol abuse 
-Passed in 1920]]> 2017-01-25 16:44:11 UTC https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j/wish/149381090 jl2110 https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j/wish/149381140 -Women were rewarded for the contribution in WWI and were granted the right to vote ]]> 2017-01-25 16:44:16 UTC https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j/wish/149381140 jl2110 https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j/wish/149382406 -Made to help make states more democratic
-A process that enables citizens to bypass their state legislature by placing proposed laws on a ballot
-Allowed citizens to create laws by petitioning to have an issue placed on the state ballot and allowing voters to decide]]> 2017-01-25 16:47:14 UTC https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j/wish/149382406 jl2110 https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j/wish/149382444 -Progressive helped make state governments more democratic 
-A general vote by the electorate on a single political question that has been referred to them for a direct decision
-Allowed citizens to vote on an issue suggested by state legislature]]> 2017-01-25 16:47:20 UTC https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j/wish/149382444 jl2110 https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j/wish/149382456 -Had wide appeal but was not a unified movement
-Included prostitution, poverty, child labor, factory safety, women's rights, temperance, and political corruption
-Some reformers targeted local community problems, others wanted state changes and others wanted national  reforms
-1st began in cities in 1890's to address factory, tenement, and labor problems
-Women found reform was a way to improve their communities and break out of traditional 1800's social roles

]]> 2017-01-25 16:47:22 UTC https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j/wish/149382456 jl2110 https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j/wish/149382633 -Wrote "How the Other Half Lives"
-Motive was to get the wealthier people to recognize the hardships some people were going through and the terrible and cramped living conditions they had
-"How the Other Half Lives" was the 1st to expose urban poverty and slums and it included photos 

]]> 2017-01-25 16:47:48 UTC https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j/wish/149382633 jl2110 https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j/wish/149382690 -Most significant state reform
-Created the "Wisconsin Idea"
-Used academic experts from University of Wisconsin to help research and write state bills
-Wisconsin was the 1st state to use direst primary and income tax, create industrial commissions, set utility prices, and regulate railroads]]> 2017-01-25 16:47:55 UTC https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j/wish/149382690 jl2110 https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j/wish/149382779 -United Mine Workers went on strike in demand higher pay and an 8 hour work day
-The coal strike lasted 11 months and made the nation nervous as winter was coming
-There was a White House meeting with both the owners and the union because Roosevelt wanted to hear both sides and create a compromise. The union liked this but the business owners did not. ]]> 2017-01-25 16:48:10 UTC https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j/wish/149382779 jl2110 https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j/wish/149382818 -New industrial advances such as mass production sped up production but led to long hours, low wages, dangerous settings, labor strikes
*MASS PRODUCTION REQUIRES MASS CONSUMPTION
-Women's Trade Union League: formed to help women who were working and educate the public. Led to 1st collective bargaining victor in US labor history
-Industrial Workers of the World: urged revolution and the creation of a workers' republic by sabotage and strikes

]]> 2017-01-25 16:48:17 UTC https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j/wish/149382818 jl2110 https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j/wish/149382985 -Educated and was first president of Tuskegee University 
-His "Atlanta Compromise" stressed black self-improvement but not violence. Gradual approach to equality. Was supported more than Du Bois by white politicians.]]> 2017-01-25 16:48:44 UTC https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j/wish/149382985 jl2110 https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j/wish/149383041 -More agressive than Booker T Washington
-Led the Niagra Movement calling for immediate civil rights, integrated schools, and promotion of the "Talented Tenth" to be the next generation of black civil rights leaders]]> 2017-01-25 16:48:52 UTC https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j/wish/149383041 jl2110 https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j/wish/149383141 -Formed Socialist Part of America but didn't threaten to overthrow U.S. capitalism
-Applied Marxist ideas into a moderate and appealing political platform
-Head of the American Railway Union and director of the Pullman strike; he was imprisoned along with his associates for ignoring a federal court injunction to stop striking. While in prison, he read Socialist literature and emerged as a Socialist leader in America.]]> 2017-01-25 16:49:06 UTC https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j/wish/149383141 https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j/wish/149461744 -Wrote "Progress and Poverty" 
-Showed the growing gap between the rich and poor ]]> 2017-01-25 20:32:40 UTC https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j/wish/149461744 jl2110 https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j/wish/151022655  -re-imposed the federal income tax following the ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment and lowered basic tariff rates]]> 2017-02-02 01:12:10 UTC https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j/wish/151022655 jl2110 https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j/wish/151022694 -Progressives rejected social darwinism]]> 2017-02-02 01:12:44 UTC https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j/wish/151022694 jl2110 https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j/wish/151022737 - A lot of people died
- Made people realize that they maybe should have more safety precautions in place]]> 2017-02-02 01:13:06 UTC https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j/wish/151022737 jl2110 https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j/wish/151022752 Views on Trusts
Trust-buster, but only to the ones that didn't benefit him. Will only break up big businesses if they abuse their power and don't compromise and accept government regulation. 

Views on Conservation
-good
-he liked 

Reasons for split with Taft
-taft wasn't progressive enough
-They split over idealogy. Roosevelt believed in breaking up "bad" trusts while allowing "good" trusts to continue. Taft opposed all trusts. Roosevelt wanted more involvement in foreign affairs, and Taft was an isolationist. Roosevelt ran against Taft in 1912. Taft went against Roosevelts views on conservation and fired Pinchot (Roosevelt's main man for conservation). ]]> 2017-02-02 01:13:18 UTC https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j/wish/151022752 jl2110 https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j/wish/151022798 "separate but equal"]]> 2017-02-02 01:13:52 UTC https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j/wish/151022798 jl2110 https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j/wish/151022838 -African Americans weren't helped]]> 2017-02-02 01:14:17 UTC https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j/wish/151022838 jl2110 https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j/wish/151022876 -basically an  extension of Sherman anti trust act
-no monopolies]]> 2017-02-02 01:14:48 UTC https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j/wish/151022876 jl2110 https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j/wish/151022897 -Women's Christian Temperance Union
-Prohibition and women's rights]]> 2017-02-02 01:15:09 UTC https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j/wish/151022897 jl2110 https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j/wish/151022906 Why did we try to stay neutral?
-George Washington told us to stay out of foreign affairs
-Wilson did not want to go to war
-The United States was filled with a bunch of different ethnicities that have strong ties to their mother land ]]> 2017-02-02 01:15:22 UTC https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j/wish/151022906 jl2110 https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j/wish/151022935 -used for peace negotiations after World War I
-A list of foreign policy goals which Woodrow Wilson hoped to achieve in the aftermath of World War I 
- 1st five points : no secret treaties, freedom of the seas, reduced/no tariffs for free trade, limit military sizes, promoted principle of "self-determination"
- Next 8 points: recommended boundary adjustments that aligned with national identities.
- 14th point: creation of the League of Nations, international association of nations that would resolve future controversies.]]> 2017-02-02 01:15:43 UTC https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j/wish/151022935 jl2110 https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j/wish/151022946 - US proposed League of Nations but never joined it
-Treaty that ended World War I; it was much harder on Germany than Wilson wanted but not as punitive as France and England desired. It was harsh enough, however, to set stage for Hitler's rise of power in Germany in 1930s.]]> 2017-02-02 01:15:51 UTC https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j/wish/151022946 jl2110 https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j/wish/151022958 - a message that was decoded that talked about how Germany and Mexico were going to team up and take down the US. 
-Secret German message to Mexico (intercepted by the US) which offered to return to Mexico the lands it lost in the Mexican-American War.]]> 2017-02-02 01:16:00 UTC https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j/wish/151022958 jl2110 https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j/wish/151022963 -The migration of African Americans from the South to the North and West for jobs.
-Resulted in race riots]]> 2017-02-02 01:16:07 UTC https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j/wish/151022963 jl2110 https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j/wish/151022980 -claimed special "police powers" in Western Hemisphere because other nations were trying to do things with Latin America]]> 2017-02-02 01:16:16 UTC https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j/wish/151022980 jl2110 https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j/wish/151023001 Big Stick Diplomacy (Roosevelt)
- Superiority of American Protestant culture
-strong military
-economic and political stature
-applied in Latin America which lead to the building of the Panama Canal

Dollar Diplomacy (Taft)
- Focused on US wealth rather than military strength and foreign policy
- US banks assumed Latin America's debts so we could control them and they'd owe us.

Moral Diplomacy (Wilson)
-Bring peace and democracy without militarism
-focused on human rights in atin America
-defended Monroe Doctrine]]> 2017-02-02 01:16:31 UTC https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j/wish/151023001 jl2110 https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j/wish/151023022 Espionage Act (1917) -prohibited people from expressing or publishing opinions that would interfere with the US military’s efforts to defeat Germany and its allies. Sedition Act (1918)
-made it illegal to write or speak anything critical of American involvement in the war.]]> 2017-02-02 01:16:44 UTC https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j/wish/151023022 jl2110 https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j/wish/151023033 War boards were created to increase cooperation among businesses to support the war effort.]]> 2017-02-02 01:16:58 UTC https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j/wish/151023033 jl2110 https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j/wish/151023054 Wilson's campaign slogan. Ironic because he didn't keep us out of war, although he wanted to.]]> 2017-02-02 01:17:12 UTC https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j/wish/151023054 jl2110 https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j/wish/151023092 -German U-boats
- really "fired up" Americans due to propaganda even though not a lot of Americans were killed.]]> 2017-02-02 01:17:39 UTC https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j/wish/151023092 jl2110 https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j/wish/151023115 -seas around the British Isles were declared a war zone in which fishing vessels and unarmed merchant vessels, carrying essential items such as foodstuffs, coal and iron ore, would be attacked without warning by German U-boats.
-Britain almost starved]]> 2017-02-02 01:17:54 UTC https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j/wish/151023115 jl2110 https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j/wish/151023143 Wilson asked Congress to declare war on April 2, 1917. "The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest, no dominion. We seek no indemnities for ourselves, no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely make." Also, "It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war." Congress declared war on April 6th.]]> 2017-02-02 01:18:09 UTC https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j/wish/151023143 https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j/wish/222610851 America wanted to stay out of the war. Even the sinking of the Lusitania did not do much to cause mass outrage. It was not until the Tsarist regime in Russia fell and the Communists took over that Wilson wanted to get involved. Many think that we joined because democracy was being threatened when that happened.]]> 2018-01-18 20:21:38 UTC https://padlet.com/jl2110/3amvv6146y1j/wish/222610851