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Progressivism and Imperialism. WOMEN  Women demanded more rights, such as  Better employment opportunities and High Education  Susan B Anthony

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1 Progressivism and Imperialism

2 WOMEN  Women demanded more rights, such as  Better employment opportunities and High Education  Susan B Anthony http://player.discoveryeducation.com/inde x.cfm?guidAssetId=DABE325C-692A- 4A79-9EBD- 5E27EAC578A2&blnFromSearch=1&pro ductcode=UShttp://player.discoveryeducation.com/inde x.cfm?guidAssetId=DABE325C-692A- 4A79-9EBD- 5E27EAC578A2&blnFromSearch=1&pro ductcode=US

3 Prohibition  Women gained political experience.  I.E. Woman’s Christian Temperance Union  Protestant Churches  18 th Amendment- Prohibited the sale or making of alcohol

4 …Prohibition Continued  The states ratified the 18 th amendment in 1919 only to be repealed in 1933. http://player.discoveryed ucation.com/index.cfm? guidAssetId=66493920- 623B-4807-826A- 9C59C7BF8E09&blnFro mSearch=1&productcod e=UShttp://player.discoveryed ucation.com/index.cfm? guidAssetId=66493920- 623B-4807-826A- 9C59C7BF8E09&blnFro mSearch=1&productcod e=US

5 Susan B Anthony  Voices- Susan B Anthony  Quote- Interpret  There is not the woman born who desires to eat the bread if dependence, no matter whether it be from the hand of father, husband, or brother; for any one who does so eat her bread places herself in the power of the person from whom she takes it.

6 Anti Suffrage  What were women’s duties?  Idea that MOST women did not want to vote- (being forced)‏  Liquor Businesses  Churches  National American Women Suffrage Association- Elizabeth Stanton, Susan B Anthony

7 Teddy Roosevelt  Cowboy or Politician?  The Republicans didn’t want to TR to be President, so he was made VP.  "My country has in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived." (Upon being elected as the first Vice President) John Adams

8 The Death of William McKinley  Killed by Leon Czolgosz  Bully Pulpit- A powerful platform to publicize important issues and seek support for his policies

9 The Coal Strike of 1902  150,000 Pennsylvania coal miners struck for higher wages, shorter hours  Teddy stood up to the mine owners  Showed what his presidency would be like.

10 The Square Deal  The needs of workers, business, and consumers should be balanced.  Wanted to limit the power of trusts, promote public health, and working conditions  “We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when anyone engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal.”

11 “Speak softly and carry a big stick.”  1903, he said:  There is a homely old adage which runs: 'Speak softly and carry and big stick; you will go far.' If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoughly efficient navy, the Munroe Doctrine will go far.

12 ACTS  Elkins Act- Prohibited railroads from accepting rebates.  The Hepburn Act- Strengthened the Interstate Commerce Commission giving it the power to set maximums railroad rates  Meat Inspection Act  Pure Food and Drug Act

13 Define  16 th Amendment  New Freedom  Federal Reserve Act  Clayton Antitrust Act  Nineteenth Amendment  Brownsville Incident


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