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Booker T. Washington
WEB DuBois
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
• Book about an
immigrant that talked
about meat factories
• Led to change
President Teddy Roosevelt
• Meat Inspection Act:
must inspect meat
factories
• Pure Food & Drug Act:
• 1. Label ingredients
• 2. Dose
• 3. What it cures
• Environment: make
land national parks
Taft & Roosevelt
Taft
• Taft Dollar Diplomacyeconomic investment in
weaker countries
• President 1909-1913
(one term)
• 16th Amendmentincome tax (to help
fund progress
programs)
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Ballinger-Pinchot AffairPinchot Dept. of Forestry
Ballinger Sec. of the Interior
Pinchot accuses Ballinger of
selling land in Alaska that
was conserved
• Taft fires Pinchot
(Roosevelt’s good friend)
• Roosevelt angry & decides
to run again for Pres.
Election of 1912
• Taft- Republican
• Wilson-Democrat
• Roosevelt- Progressive
Party also known as
“Bull Moose Party”
• Taft & Roosevelt split
the vote
• Popular Vote- 41%
Wilson
• 27% Roosevelt
• 25% Taft
• Taft only received 8
Electoral Votes Worst
defeat in history of a
Pres.
Woodrow Wilson-Democrat
New Freedom
• Workmen’s
Compensation
• National Labor Boardgave 8 work day, child
labor laws, etc.
• Federal Reserve
System:
• 3 Tiered Banking
System
• 19th Am. – (1920)
women get the right to
vote
Federal
Reserve
12 Federal
Banks
Local Banks
Suffrage
For
• Everyone should have equal
rights
• Women should have the
right to be life, liberty, and
property
• More voices in government
Against
• Too stupid
• Too weak minded to deal with
politics
• Would be distracted from
domestic roles
• Would become too masculine
• Men/Husbands represent their
opinions
Suffrage Leaders
Carrie Chapman Catt
• Gain Right Slowly State by
State
• (Already Voting in the westWyoming 1st State to grant
the right)
• Older
Alice Paul
• Immediately
• Constitutional Amendment
• Younger