Unit+V

﻿**__Unit V__ =P**

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 * Top Ten Key Terms/People of Chapter 21**
 * __**Progressivism**__: the time period where there was an urge for American reforms to change the country for the better
 * **__Reforms on Women__**: women were being more and more involved in the world outside of homes, women wanted to become equal with the men, created clubs they went to, to express themselves --> the 19th Amendment was created so that women had equal rights just like men does, but women still felt like they were being discriminated by men and wanted a clear legal statement stating that there was no gender discrimination
 * __**Reforms on African Americans**__: there were reforms that tried to help African Americans and other colored people to obtain their rights as citizens of America and become equal with everyone else --> have equal rights and equal chances of opportunities
 * __**Attacking Party Rule**__: many people believed that political parties were all corrupted and so they used these reforms to try to decrease their powers and help better the government
 * **__Temperance Crusade__**: a major reform movement against alcohol (similar to the one in the Reform Era) --> 18th Amendment was passed to prohibit the sale and manufacture of alcoholic beverages
 * **__Immigration Restriction__**: restricting immigration from expanding and mixing with the pure Americans
 * **__Professions__**: people began taking profession in fields such as medical fields
 * **__Settlement House Movement__**: reforms to improve the conditions that the people lived in
 * **__Socialism__**: better the economy, companies were ocrrupted, reforms to reshape and reform the behavior of capitalism


 * Top Ten Most Important Concepts of Chapter 22**
 * __**National Reform**__: the nation at that time was facing many political problems with its government, people were in search of better leaders to lead them and they wanted to fix the system to make governing America much more better and meet the people's needs and society's changes
 * **__Theodore Roosevelt__**: he was a Republican president who was a great supporter of reforms and wanted to better the nation
 * **__Woodrow Wilson__**: he was a Democratic president who beat Roosevelt in the election and he had a different way of reforming the nation, did a good job expanding the nation
 * **__William Howard Taft__**: he was a successor of Roosevelt for presidency, he wasn't a great supporter of reforms, but he did try to lower the tariffs and little bits of other things
 * **__Preservation__**: one of the acts that Roosevelt passed to prevserve the natural lands for public use only and other people weren't allow to take these lands for their own personal use
 * **__"New Freedom"__**: Wilson's idea to completely destroy the concentrated power in corporations by destroying the corporations themselves, with this belief he believes that this will give people more freedom because the corporations won't have too much power over them
 * **__"New Nationalism"__**: Roosevelt's idea to reforming the nation, it gave the government more and power and regulated the corporations more strictly
 * **__"Dollar Diplomacy"__**: America wanted to expand its economy and to do so they plan to expand its investments in smaller countries
 * **__"Roosevelt's Corollary"__**: this helped expand the nation because it allowed Americans the move around more and have more freedom and move around into other nation's affairs
 * **__Platt Amendment__**: ths allowed America to take advantages of overseas economy and expand itself


 * Chapter 21 and 22 Chart**
 * Issues || Problems || Reform Efforts and Achievements ||
 * Governement || * the nation was going through great changes and the government couldn't keep up, couldn't handle the nation
 * political parties had too much power and were corrupted
 * national government needed change to have better control || * initiative, referendum, and direct primary
 * attacking the state system and party rule
 * made it so that people that were elected didn't have political parties influence on them
 * created a better society ||
 * Expansion || * expanding the nation will help reform the nation, better its economy || * Platt Amendment
 * Roosevelt's Corollary
 * Dollar Diplomacy
 * Woodrow Wilson ||
 * Women's Suffrage || * women was becoming more and more involved in the society outside of their homes due to the changes of society, they wanted more freedom and equal rights
 * many men and women opposed to this because they believed it will destroy the traditions of the women's spheres || * women clubs were created, it's a place where women can express themselves in a way they can't in male dominate societies
 * they started to gain supports and formed unions to fight for their freedom and rights
 * 19th Amendment was passed stating that women had equal rights and can vote, but this did little to change their roles in society ||
 * Alcohol Use || * many people were against the use of alcohol because of the negative affects it has on people and society
 * alcohol produces violence within families, neighborhoods, and societies
 * workers often miss their jobs because of the drunkness from alcohol || * Temperance Crusade
 * groups and organizations were formed to ban alcohol, it was mostly made up of women
 * the 18th Amendment was passed to prohibit the sale and manufacturing of alcoholic beverages ||
 * Concentrated Power in Corporations || * corporations has too much powers
 * people fear that these corporations will be corrupted with the powers that they have
 * take advantages of people, take full control
 * trusts and monopolies are giving corporations too much powers || * Socialism was formed to limit these powers that these corporations has, they created a political party and had a huge influence, but they lost their powers once they refused to support World War I
 * needed the government to play a more active role in regulating and planning the economic life/system, government need to control corporations
 * "good trusts" and "bad trusts", prevent corporations from abusing its powers ||
 * Immigration || * many Americans feared that immigration will expand and mix with the pure Americans
 * immigrants came in during the boom and bust
 * should America provide language classes for these immigrants || * progressives wanted to restrict immigration
 * Eugenics and Nativism, eugenics discourage people of different races to "breed" with pure Americans, it will produce children who are mentally retarded, criminals, and etc.
 * Madison Grant's //The Passing of the Great Race// (1916) warned Americans the dangers of racial "mongrelization" and the importance to protect the purity of Anglo-Saxon from the influence of the Hispanics and Asians ||
 * African Americans || * wanted equal rights and opportunities like everyone else || * W.E.B. Du Bois created an organization with white and blacks helping to get full equality in society, but they didn't achieve much ||
 * Urban Housing Conditions || * the conditions that the people were living in were terrible and unsanitary || * Settlement House Movement
 * reforms took place to help improve these conditions
 * Jane Addams created the first Hull House in 1889 and this inspired many to build more ||
 * __Issues / Problems / Reform Efforts and Achievements [Add-Ins]:__**
 * Working Conditions
 * the conditions that the workers worked in poor conditions
 * people were getting injured everyday, people in factories are always loosing a arm or a body part due to work
 * their labor wasn't good, they were paid less for the work they do
 * children were forced to work,
 * workers even caught diseases from their work places due to the unsanitary conditions
 * reforms formed to solve these problems, Union Labor Party in California passed a child labor law, a workmen's compensation law, and a limitation on working hours for women