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| What paradoxes did the progressive impulse reveal in the early 20th century? ... 3 people |
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Andrew Carnegie
Jacob Riis
Herbert Spencer |
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steam engine (did the work of 20 men)… completely killed the textile industry as a skill trade
Big area to invest in is iron steel railroad
Andrew Carnegie invested all of his money in Henry Bessemer from England
Henry Bessemer found a new way to produce steel quicker
He was a strong believer in Egalitarianism. An idea that society is much more peaceful if we can give everyone an equal opportunity. However he was a very cut throat capitalist. |
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| Carnegie with the pinkertons |
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| His principal was wealth should never be inherited… He said it promotes bad behavior. |
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a proposer of Social Darwinism
He is accredited a phrase of “survival of the fittest” .. which was Charles Darwin’s idea.
One of his greatest fans is Andrew Carnegie… because “survival of the fittest” allows him to sleep at night… because he was very familiar with poverty.
said everyone in nature has their place
The weak should not be helped… because to do so… would interfere with natures work. |
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| you can take all the different races (ethnicity) the Chinese, Italians, Hungarians, etc… are threatening to overtake our society. |
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a photographer from denmark… takes pictures in the cities all day. He catalogs all these pictures and on a series of interviews. He writes a book “ How The Other Half Lives” RAW… attracted a lot of people.
He brings greater public awareness of the urban poor. |
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“man of the people” was the most popular politician of the 20th century.
Most important politician of the century who ran 3 times for president but was never elected.
He is associated with the “populist party” |
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| Gold Standard vs. Silver Standard |
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Gold standard was not in an abundance. Which make the dollar a higher value.
Silver standard was in an abundance… Which made the dollar at a lower value. |
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(1890-1920)
First problem is alcohol.
Alcohol was perceived as a problem because people drank too much. Men came home and beat their wives.
WCTU Women’s Christian Temperance Union
Employers become concerned because people are coming to work wasted and not able to do their job.
Volstead Act- 18th amendment is passed. Alcohol is banned to be sold. |
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NAWSA (National American Women’s Suffrage Association
19th Amendment – women are allowed to vote |
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| (NCL National Consumers League) – help women and children improve their living condition |
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(Women’s Trade Union League) – a restructure of the work hours… or the wage system.
Solution: a 10 hour work day.
Birth Control |
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– preservationist
He wanted to take a picture of nature: and keep it as it looks as nature would have that.
They would fight over conservationist. However conservationists are more concerned with natural resources.
Utilities are owned publicly when a valley is turned into a man made lake. In san Francisco. The Water is used for electicity and fresh water. |
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Wrote the book to expose the horrid labor conditions and the class conditions that immigrants faced.
Aimed at the American hearts- but hit them in the stomach.
Proposed sanitation/ purity of water/ milk being pasteurized
Pure Food and Drug Act- government now had the right to make sure food was pure. And harmful stuff was not getting to citizens.
The Jungle |
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had a problem with Jews coming over to the states.
Suggests that you need to teach them how to work hard and teach them how to become American.
Wives would go to school and learn how to cook American dishes. Celebrate American Holidays.
Recently arrived immigrants would go up the stairs. They would stir him. And then they would come out waving an American flag. The “Melting Pot |
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republican president
Problem: Monopoly AKA “trust”
Sherman Anti-Trust Act .. gave president authority to be the “economic trust Big Dog”
AKA TRUST BUST
Intervene with strikes and make sure that workers got the 10 % wage increase |
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the more people you got involved in the government less corruption
- Wisconsin Idea- had people draft so that companies were abiding by the rules
- Direct Primary Elections supports |
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| “Hull House” helped orphans on the street |
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| “speak softly and carry a big stick, you will go far.” Theodore Roosevelt |
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| Paradox. Roosevelt spoke about an aggressive military but never used force. |
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| After the Cuban Revolution, the United States insisted on an amendment to the new Cuban constitution making it a virtual protectorate of the United States. T or F |
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| “Chronic wrongdoing… International Police Power” |
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| nited States paid an indemnity to Colombia in 1921 |
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| It encouraged the province of Panama to become independent from Colombia in order to secure favorable terms for building, leasing and operating a canal. |
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| Secretary of War Elhu Root dragted a set of articles called Platt Amendment as guidelines for future United States- Cuban Revolution. |
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| Theodore Roosevelt won a Nobel Peace Prize for his role in mediating the peace terms of the Russo-Japanese War |
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| Theodore Roosevelt was annoyed by Europeans nations’ attempt to employ their military to collect debts from Latin American countries and intervened in _____ in response. |
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| Dominican Republic and Venzuela |
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| William Howard Taft’s efforts in Honduras, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Dominican Republic and Haiti are widely perceived by historians as _____ in history. |
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| “In its foreign affairs the United States should present to the world a united front. The intellectual, financial , and industrial interests of the country and the publiscist, the wage earner, the farmer, and citizen of whatever occupation must cooperate in a spirit of high patriotism to promote that national solidarity which is indispensable to national efficiency and to the attainment of national ideals…. This policy has been characterized as substituting dollars for bullets… The Unites States shall extend all proper support to every legitimate and beneficial American enterprise abroad.” |
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| “Peoples, in their constant efforts for the triumph of the ideal of liberty and justice, are forced at precise historical moments, to make their greatest sacrifices… Our beloved country has reached one of those moments. A force of tyranny which we Mexicans were not accustomed to suffer after we won our independence oppresses us in such a manner that it has become intolerable. In exchange for that tyranny we are offered peace, but peace full of shame for the Mexican nation, because its basis is not law, but force; because its object is not the aggrandizement and prosperity of the country, but to enrich a small group who, abusing their influence, have converted the public charges into fountains. |
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He was a man of tremendous greed. However, he saved the American Economy twice, and donated a lot of money to charities and to the Metropolitan Art Museum of New York City.
“A man always has two reasons doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.” |
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“There is not a right too long denied which we do not aspire…. There is not a wrong too long endured that we are not determined to abolish.”
He was opposed to immigration.
He created the AFL. |
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“The day of combination is here to stay… individualism has gone never to return”
Monopoly in the oil industry. |
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Supported Anarchism
Anarchists are against religion and capital
She is quite paradoxical she is a peace activist… yet she is implicated in an attempted murder. |
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“ Father of Socialism”
“You must either vote for or against your own material interests as a wealth producer; there is no political purgatory in this nation of ours, despite the desperate efforts of so called Progressive capitalists politicians to establish one. Socialsim alone represents the material heaven of plenty for those who toil and the Socialst Party alone offers the political means for attaining that heaven of economic plenty which the toil of the oworkers of the world provides in unceasing and measureless flow. Ca[italism represents the maerial hell of want and piching poverty of degradation and prostitution for those who toil and in which you now exist…” |
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“The life of men and women is so scared. There are so many of us one job it matters little if 146 of us are burned to death.
Worked in a shirtwaist factory. |
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| What paradox did immigration and popular culture present from 1900-1919? |
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| - Surges of newcomers boosted urban economies, yet necessitated greater services, straining resources and relationships. |
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| Socialist Party- what should be the role of the worker? Fix the role of the worker you fix the economy. |
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o The economy is about keeping the largest contributors to the economy
o “Trickle Down Affect” – Larger corporations spending money and trickling down to the lower class. |
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Bull Moose Party
- taking out big business
- trust buster- monopoly buster- “trust” |
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won the presidency…
- economic reform- says lazzie faire economics has not helped |
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| “God gave us the ten commandments and we broke them. Now Mr. Wilson has given us the Fourteen Points. We shall see.” |
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| “A general association of nations must be formed under specific covenants for the purpose of affording mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike.” |
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Wilson’s Fourteen Points
January 8, 1918 |
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| How did the revive clan of the 1920’s differ from the reconstruction era klan? |
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| They are going after largely immigrants, jews, vs African Americans. |
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| Who was the woman characterized with Billy Sunday? |
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| William Jennings Bryan and Clarenece Darrow are both known for there battle between fundamentalism and education. T OR F |
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| False- William was the Fundamentalist and Darrow was the modernist |
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| Constitutional Amendment that prohibited alcohol |
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| This president 1921- Tea Pot Dome scandal |
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