Post on 17-Jan-2016
Opener Explain how Woodrow Wilson was able to win the Election of 1912 below. Use the visuals in your notes to help
with your explanation.
The Elephant: “Well, you’ve helped rip me apart and “downed” yourself. I hope you’re satisfied.
Dad: Presbyterian
minister
Mom: Daughter of Presbyterian
minister
May have had a
learning disorder
Dyslexia – Could not read until age 12
Governor of NJ
Professor for 16 years
President of
Princeton Univ.
1st to hold regular press conferences
Plan had 5 main
reforms… OR?
“New Freedom”: Program to
restore competition & entrepreneurial spirit
Tariff: Tax on imported
goods
High tariff protected American business
Underwood Tariff: Reduced average tariff
30%How does the U.S. make up for the lost revenue?
2. – Income Tax
- Tax placed on the money that one makes (income)
- 16th amendment made up for lost revenue from tariffs
Proposed fed. reserve system:
Gov’t has more control over
banks
1913: Congress approves
Created 12 regional banks
overseen by federal
reserve board
Clayton Antitrust Act: Spelled out
specifically what big businesses could not
do.
Example:
-Companies could not work to reduce
comp.-Price cutting in local markets was forbidden
Federal Trade Commission: In charge
of stopping unfair business practices among companies
Supported laws requiring companies to have workers’ compensation
Civil War occurs
-Who wins?
-What happens to black slaves?
Jim Crow Laws: Mandated
segregation in hotels,
restaurants, parks, etc. in South
1896 - Plessy v Ferguson: separate but equal
is constitutional
- Son of slaves- Paid way
through Hampton
Institute (school for freed slaves)
Tuskegee Institute: Trade school for blacks
Respect from whites
Independence
Economic success
Hard work+
….then racial equality will be
achieved
Born & raised to free black family in MA
1st black to get Ph D. from
Harvard
Opposed Washington & accommodation
Demand immediate
equality!
Mockingly referred to Booker T. Washington as the “Atlanta Compromise”
“Accept Jim Crow laws without challenge”
“Demand Equality at once! Winning equality is
not in developing vocational skills but in
voting”
Jane Addams helped organize
the NAACP
1. Women Progressives: Usually supported black
reformers
2. Teddy Roosevelt: “Now as to the Negroes! I entirely agree with you
that as a race & in the mass [they] are
altogether inferior to the whites.”
3. Whites in general: Washington’s ideas more acceptable - did not directly challenge white social & political domination.
Booker T. Washington
W.E.B. DuBois