🐮us gov guided reading 17 1&3 Flashcards
(13 cards)
Economic reform movement
People & groups involved: Ida Tarbell
Successes: expose corruption in industry
Moral reform movement
People & groups involved: WCTU, Anti Saloon Lead
Successes: saloons and bars banned, prohibition starts to happen
Movement to protect workers
People & groups involved: nation child labor committee
Successes: child labor laws, workers compensation
Movement to reform local government
Successes: commissions/groups of people who say they are reforming government, property tax, public ownership of utilities
Movement for election reform
Successes:people adopt secret ballot, right of initiative, right to recal, 17th amendment (vote for leaders not state legislators)
What did Teddy do to resolve the 1902 coal strike before winter
-called both sides of the White House to negotiate
What did Teddy do to resolve trusts
-aka trust buster
(video)
-Sherman anti trust act
What did Teddy do to resolve unregulated big business
-regulated and gave standards
- Interstate Commerce Act
- Elkins Act
- Hepburn Act
What did Teddy do to resolve dangerous foods and medicines
-appointed commission to study the meat industry and other foods
- Meat Inspection Act
- Pure Food & Drug Act
What did Teddy do to resolve shrinking wilderness and natural resources
- pro nature
- National Reclamation Act
What did Teddy do to resolve racial discrimination
- very minimal because he didn’t want to alienate the south because he wanted votes
- invited Booker Washington for dinner
Teddy’s 3 c’s
- conservation
- corporations
- consumer health
__ wrote the Jungle, a book that portrays the horrors of the __
Upton Sinclair
Meat packing industry