Progressivism and Imperialism
WOMEN
Women demanded more rights, such as
 Better employment opportunities and
High Education
 Susan B Anthony
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Prohibition
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Women gained
political experience.
I.E. Woman’s
Christian
Temperance Union
Protestant Churches
18th AmendmentProhibited the sale
or making of alcohol
…Prohibition Continued
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The states ratified the
18th amendment in 1919
only to be repealed in
1933.
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Susan B Anthony
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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
Anti Suffrage
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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
Teddy Roosevelt
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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
The Death of William McKinley
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Killed by Leon
Czolgosz
Bully Pulpit- A
powerful platform to
publicize important
issues and seek
support for his
policies
The Coal Strike of 1902
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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.
The Square Deal
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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.”
“Speak softly and carry a big
stick.”
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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.
ACTS
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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
Define
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16th Amendment
New Freedom
Federal Reserve Act
Clayton Antitrust Act
Nineteenth Amendment
Brownsville Incident