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APUSH Chapter 21. Pg. 656-674. African-American Leaders Organize Against Racism. Equality within the U.S. during the early 1900’s was moving extremely slow As a result of this new leaders arose Ida B. Wells-Led an anti-lynching campaign
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APUSHChapter 21 Pg. 656-674
African-American Leaders Organize Against Racism • Equality within the U.S. during the early 1900’s was moving extremely slow • As a result of this new leaders arose • Ida B. Wells-Led an anti-lynching campaign • W.E.B. Dubois-Demanded full racial equality (opposed Washington’s ideas of patience) • Niagara Movement-Led to formation of the NAACP
Revival of the Woman-Suffrage Movement/Enlarging “Woman’s Sphere” • Also, during the early 1900’s the women’s suffrage movement gained momentum • Founded NAWSA- National American Woman Suffrage Association • As the suffrage movement continued women went outside of their “Sphere” • Women sought to become more independent, also, women sought new ways to better their own lives (contraceptives, birth control)
Workers Organize Socialism Advances • Several Labor Unions grew in importance during the Progressive Era • AFL-Skilled Laborers • ILGWU-International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union • IWW-International Workers of the World (Wobblies)-Led by Big Bill Haywood • Socialism also attracted workers as the ideas of Karl Marx spread throughout the U.S.
Theodore Roosevelt • After McKinley’s assassination Teddy Roosevelt became President in 1901 • Roosevelt believed in the Progressive ideas and often times sided with the workers in labor disputes • Roosevelt went after big businesses and became known as a “Trust Buster” • Roosevelt also wanted to regulate the RR industry • He helped push through the Hepburn Act to allow the ICC to set RR rates
Consumer Protection and Racial Issues • Progressive reforms also tried to reform the food and drug industry • Upton Sinclair (The Jungle) wrote about the unsanitary conditions in the food industry • Led to the passing of the Pure Food and Drug Act in 1906
Environmentalism Progressive-Style • Environmental Issue’s also began during the Progressive Era (Boy and Girl Scouts founded in 1910) • TR appointed Gifford Pinchot as head of the U.S. Forest Service • Passed National Reclamation Act of 1902 • Eventually Congress created the National Park Service in 1916 to replace the Antiquities Act of 1906
Taft in the White House, 1909-1913 • William Howard Taft carried on a lot of TR’s goals • Enhanced the ICC (Mann-Elkins Act) • Continued the “TrustBusting” TR had started
The Four-Way Election of 1912 • Presidential Election of 1912 • Taft- Republican • Roosevelt- Progressive (Bull Moose) Party • Eugene V. Debs- Socialist Party • Woodrow Wilson- Democratic Party (Winner, instituted the “New Freedom” • Issue’s • Tariff Reduction, Woman’s Suffrage, Business Regulation, Child Labor, Working Conditions
Woodrow Wilson’s Presidency • Wilson would lower tariffs (Underwood-Simmons Tariff) • Wilson also passed the Federal Reserve Act to sure up banking and economic issue’s to help with the Economy • Wilson appointed “Watchdog” organizations to regulate business (Federal Trade Commission and Clayton Anti-Trust Act) • Despite Wilson’s “looking out for” the lower levels of society he strengthened segregation in the U.S.
Wilson’s Presidency continued • Wilson would be re-elected in 1916 as the U.S. would enter WWI shortly after the election