Warm Up

Who is your favorite band or artist right now? Why?

Write your answer on a scrap piece of paper to be turned in.

Favorite song by that artist?

Ch. 17, sec. 21. Women in the workforce

1 in 5 held jobs circa 190050% in garment industry25% in manufacturing More education for jobs as teachers,

bookkeepers, stenographers, typist

2. Women Lead Reform

a. Many highly educated women join reform movement.

b. Focused on workplace, housing, education, and food & drug reform.

c. 1896 – African American women found National Association of Colored Women (NACW). focused on education.

3. Women’s Suffrage

a. Susan B. Anthony led the fight for Women’s Suffrage. Founded National American Women Suffrage Association (NAWSA) with Elizabeth Cady Stanton in 1890.

b. Opposition to women’s suffrage from liquor & textile industries.

c. 3-part strategy for suffrage:

1. Through State Legislatures (Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, Idaho grant voting rights by 1910).

2. Court Cases to test 14th amendment.

3. Sought a national constitutional amendment granting women’s suffrage.

Ch. 17, sec. 3Teddy Roosevelt’s Square Deal

Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt (TR)

a. Roosevelt became the youngest president ever at 42 when President McKinley was assassinated by anarchist Leon Czolgosz in 1901. 

b. Roosevelt expanded the power of the presidency. He Believed victimized workers and the American people should get a Square deal- this term came to represent various progressive reforms his administration sponsored.

2.Roosevelt’s use of Federal Power

a. Trust-busting – sued the Northern Securities Company trust and won. The Supreme Court dissolved the company in 1904. Though he brought 44 cases against trust, Roosevelt approved of some trusts. 

b. 1902 Coal Strike – lasted 5 months. Roosevelt intervened and threatened to take over the mines. The miners won a 10% pay raise and 9-hr work day. Set principle for federal intervention when strikes threatened public welfare.

2.Roosevelt’s use of Federal Power

c. Railroad regulation 1. Elkin Act of 1903 – made it illegal for railroads to give and shippers to receive rebates for using particular railroads. Railroads had to notify public of changes in rates. 

2. Hepburn Act of 1906 – limited distribution of free railroad passes (a form of bribery) & gave ICC power to set maximum railroad rates.

3. Health and the Environment.

a. Meat inspection Act of 1906 b. Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 – ended sale of 

contaminated food and medicine and called for accurate labeling and truth. 

c. Conservation i. Environmental issues (pp. 528 – 529) ii. Set aside land for natural resources, national 

parks, and wildlife. iii. Managed water sources of the West with 

National Reclamation Act or Newlands Act of 1902.

National Parks

4. Roosevelt and Civil Rightsa. Did not support civil rights for African Americans

i. Booker T. Washington - believed racism would end when blacks acquired useful skills and proved their economic value to society. Founded Tuskegee Institute – taught skills in agriculture, domestic, mechanic, brick laying, etc. 

ii. W.E.B. Du Bois – Demanded immediate social and economic equality for blacks. 1st African American to receive a doctorate from Harvard (1895), founded the Niagara Movement which said blacks should seek a liberal arts education so that the African American community would have well educated leaders.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Helped Found NAACP – the National Association of the Advancement of Colored People, which focused on achieving equality among the races. 

Du Bois disagreed with Washington’s acceptance of segregation and his blaming of blacks for their own poverty and urging that they accept discrimination.