1. Regulation of Business Sherman Anti-trust act regulated illegal monopolies Interstate Commerce Commission is created to regulate large businesses Bureau of Corporations had the power to investigate and regulate corporations

2. Social Gospel In the early 20th century, many Americans were disgusted by the poverty level and the low quality of living in the slums. The social gospel movement provided a religious rationale for action to remove those evils. Activists in the Social Gospel movement hoped that by public health measures as well as enforced schooling so the poor could develop talents and skills.

3. Governmental Reforms Initiative- Allows voters to petition state legislatures in order to consider a bill desired by citizens. Referendum- Allows voters to decide if a bill or proposed amendment should be passed. Recall- Allows voters to petition to have an elected representative removed from office. Impeachment- impeachment is the Accusation of a President of unlawful activity, and not the actual Removal. Only referendum is legal in Maryland http://www.iandrinstitute.org/statewide_i&r.htm

4. Delay High School Start Times Should schools start at 7-7:20 am and or would it be better if they started at 9 am. Then school would have to end at 3:30. WHICH WOULD YOU PREFER?

5. Delay High School Start Times All in favor of 9 am - 3:30 pm school day CHOOSE 1 All those NOT in favor of changing times CHOOSE 2

6. Amendments What is an Amendment? What does it do? Is it effective?

7. Progressive Amendments 16-Federal Income Tax 17-Direct election of senators 18-Prohibition (bans sale and manufacture of alcohol) 19-women’s right to vote 20-Presidential succession and inauguration dates

8. Booker T. Washington and WEB DuBois Should African Americans have more strongly resisted the government’s decision to abandon the drive for equality?

9. * Former slave in Virginia * Established an industrial and agricultural school at Tuskegee, Alabama-largest, best known industrial school in the nation WASHINGTON BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

10. Famous for his autobiography, Up From Slavery. Many black leaders opposed Washington’s “Atlanta Compromise” which encourage blacks to work hard and wait for equality

11. DUBOIS WEB DUBOIS * Free black from Massachusetts * Educated at Fisk and Harvard Universities * Wrote the book The Souls of Black Folk

12. Washington and DuBois differed on how to achieve equality Accommodation or Agitation?

13. Washington’s Theory Accommodation Earning $ is more powerful than the ballot Education and economic progress most important With economic success political and social equality will follow

14. DuBois’s theory *Agitation *Demanded equal rights and universal male suffrage *Need political and social independence before economic

15. Summary If you wanted to change a law, what process might you use? What process do you use to have an elected representative removed from office?

16. Summary How do Washington and DuBois differ in their approaches to promoting black equality? How do Washington and DuBois differ in their approaches to promoting black equality? Compare the backgrounds of Washington and DuBois. What clues do they offer which help account for their views? Compare the backgrounds of Washington and DuBois. What clues do they offer which help account for their views? Whose view do you think was most promising for the equality of blacks? Whose view do you think was most promising for the equality of blacks?