Chapter 28 & 29 APUSH

Use of the government to improve human welfare; fighting monopolies, corruption, inefficiency, and social injustice

wrote Wealth against Commonwealth (1894)

Critical of standard oil and how it doesn’t help the people that it is supposed to serve, aka the customers. Also, how robber barons aren’t helping the little guy

wrote How the Other Half Lives (1890)

Wealth vs the Common Man; The strong divide between how rich, middle class, and rural class lives. Some didn’t even know there were slums in New York because knowledge didn’t move quickly.

Writing because transportation, newspapers, and knowledge was slow

Searching and fighting for social equality among gender, race, and minorities

• Socialists began to come to the front of the movement in America because the same movements were occurring across the globe. 

• Social justice became very appealing to the common person because the government owned everything and robber barons profited off of them. 

• Environmental concern goes away, put on the back burner 

• Women still didn’t have the right to vote 

Mud; the underbelly of water is dirty and when stirred, it becomes cloudy and you no longer see the water

Investigative journalists who went after corrupt politicians and after-trusts

writes The Shame of the Cities

Outs the corruption within the big machines and how they change the government

Leading and educated Muckraker that publishes a depiction of Standard Oil that drags their name

Ida Tarbell was raised on a Standard Oil reserve and called out how Standard Oil ruins the cities and people that work in Standard Oil

wrote Treason of the Senate in Cosmopolitan

Charges that 75/90 senators do not represent their people and invest/represent railroads and trusts. Also, how local politics and national politics are always will and always have been corrupt

Senators say that without the trusts or railroads that they can’t produce jobs for their people

 social “badness” or wrongs; used as attacks from muckrakers

wrote Following the Color Line (1908)

Said that the Mason-Dixon line is gone because segregation has leaked everywhere. Two steps forward from the Civil War, three steps back for equality

wrote The Bitter Cry of the Children

• Child labor is child abuse 

• People didn’t agree because they thought labor was labor and people needed money regardless 

• He asked what should children do instead of work; answer is go to school and learn

Reforms that benefitted the middle class more than poor

more educated with more free time and disposable income than the poor

middle class had time to fight for those that are down on their luck compared to them and want to bring society up with them

To use state power to control trust: 

• trusts= monopolies 

• The federal government shouldn’t have control over states because they will be controlled by the state. 

• Go after the states because the federal will push them down 

To improve the common person’s conditions of life and labor (work and personal life)

• Want to improve the quality of work place to stop putting people in danger 

• Protect immigrants as well as poor class; you should not be scared to go to work and if you get hurt, you should be able to heal 

  • There were no pensions or disabilities at this time

we lost our way because we forget that the constitution says “We the People…”

direct vote by the people where you must get a petition, get people to sign it, then give it to the local government and request a referendum

people directly propose legislation

vote to remove an elected official from position by the public

establish the direct election of senators

The states appointed them, by governors or the state senators (in the state’s congress); corruption was eminent

regulates anything that is a public utility like electricity, toll roads, sewage, railroads, water, and natural gas

“Fighting Bob;” Father of the Progressive movement that fought for the people, gave back rights, and tried to end corruption

Governor of California that saw the railroad wasn’t benefiting the state and its people

created clubs where women could discuss and propose solutions to problems

union that represents a specific job and trade

women were buying things for the home, they were spending the money so they had the say-so; meant to benefit them

used the power of boycotting companies that used child labor or abused female workers

Muller (plaintiff) and Oregon (defense-getting sued) fought over if it is constitutional to enact laws that protect female workers 

Rule it was constitutional since women and men are equal. Pregnant women should get different breaks than others. Baseline law that allowed laws to be different for men and women

overturned the law that bakers had to work 10 hours at minimum all at one time

Many women were bakers. It was unfair to mandate hours. But hours could be broken up (make bread then take care of children then come back). Changed so that it didn’t have to be all at one time

factory that made shirts with a lot of children and female workers, doors of company was locked up, electricity sparked on dust made from shirts, factory goes up in flames and workers couldn’t escape, many died

Anti-Alcohol group that would pray-out (go into bars and pray around customers, made a significant change)

Didn’t have a lot of potable water so people drank beer often and it became the norm and caused problems 

Workers would be buzzed and caused issues. Socialization after work with alcohol would cause issues at home

The square deal

1. Control of corporations (trusts) 

2. Consumer protection (trust in products and you get what you get, also to make sure it is safe for the customer)

3. Conservation of natural resourcesMiner

went of strike for a 20% raise and a 9 hour work day (instead of 10 hours) 

• Were paid little and wanted their dues; wanted a livable wage 

• 20% raise and work 10% less (keeps things where it is)

• As a coal miner, you only get paid when you’re in the mines and working

Miner spokesman and president sided together; threatening to put troops in the mines to support corporations

due to labor and capital hostility with so many strikes, Roosevelt created a way to help this issue

railroads appealed to legislation to push back the interstate commerce commission and offered rebates to the government so they’d use the railroads

railroads weren’t allowed to use rebates since everything must go through the ICC; they also weren’t allowed to take rebates 

• Forced railroads to be more fair with shippers

• Railroads gave free passes to shippers (basically a rebate)

no free passes while expanding the ICC

rewards companies to promote business

wanted to achieve a monopoly across all the railroads in the northwest but the government had to approve mergers

Supreme Court rules in agreeance with Roosevelt 

Most trusts at this time were companies that took over others, making monopolies but the trust were dissolved

Buy things and vote for people who care about them

Bad stored food in cans or different containers

found in American meats so foreign groups threatened to ban them from trading 

America was exporting a large amount of beef and cow so they relied on fixing this

Tells about how immigrants come into American and how hard it is working in the meat factories in Chicago as an immigrant and Exposes how dirty and nasty the meat industry was

meat shipped over state lines had to be inspected by feds

designed to prevent adulteration and mislabeling of foods and pharmaceuticals 

• Can’t say ‘cure’ must say ‘prevent’ 

• Everything must be included in labeling like nutrition labels

  • i.e. ‘2% juice,’ ‘10% juice,’ etc

A conservationist

federal government sold dry land cheaply as long as the buyer promised to bring water to that land and irrigate the soil in 3 years

created national forest, parks, etc. which set aside those places and didn’t allow others to tamper with it

federal land would be given to states as long as it was irrigated in order for things could be planted, and food could be made

allowed the federal government to use money from sale of land to develop irrigation projects

money set aside for federal reserves

Sought to sustain federal lands for recreation, logging, watershed protection, and cattle grazing

1904

Congress had passed the Aldrich-Vreeland Act of 1908 that authorized banks to issue emergency currency in the event of a shortage 

• Value of the money goes down

• You can’t print more money unless you buy more gold

Americans had forgotten about the panics and people got cocky so they passed laws that they thought mighty help but only caused more issues

William Howard Taft (Republican) w/ his Secretary of War: Roosevelt

William Jennings Bryan (Democrat)

Roosevelt’s puppet/mouthpiece

Taft

Roosevelt had changed America’s presidential power and also made America a role model to other countries

wasn’t adept to Roosevelts ideals 

• He was more of an intellectual 

• He gets the job done; unlike Roosevelt who was good at talking but wasn’t the best at getting the job done 

• Taft was passive with Congress instead of being firm with them like Roosevelt

Taft encouraged local banks to invest in foreign countries 

• Set up distribution centers, factories, etc. 

• Take our machine to the other countries; our businesses could go all over the world 

• If we could run those businesses, we could run those countries 

• Wanted to expand America economically and territorially

• made better defense for the U.S.

U.S. railroads controlled Japan and Russia in China

proposed that Americans buy the Railroads and turn them over to China but Japan and Russia refuse

Someone who breaks up a monopoly

The Supreme Court ordered for Standard Oil to be dissolved because they violated the Sherman AntiTrust Act

If your monopoly becomes too big that other companies can’t enter your area of trade,then you should be dissolved

the Supreme Court rules that a trust was illegal only if it restrainted trade 

• Equal trade in and out is fair but over taking and preventing that is illegal

placed high tariff on many imports coming in 

Taft had said he’s lower tariffs and tariffs had become a bad thing 

• If we charge high tariffs, everyone else will start charging high tariffs as well

he fired Chief of Agriculture’s Forestry Division Leader, Gifford Pinchot, during a midterm election and split the Republican party in half

formed by “Fighting Bob,” who was also the lead candidate in the Republican Presidential Nomination

Roosevelt came to challenge Taft, since he hadn’t followed his principles, but Taft won over “Fighting Bob” and Roosevelt

Republicans refused to vote since Roosevelt didn’t vote and Roosevelt claimed it was fraud

Roosevelt’s 3rd Party that challenged the two split Republican groups and was determined to win

• Democrats turned down Bryan since he was old

  • choose Woodrow Wilson

  • He was running as a progressive reformist 

    Democrats saw him as capable of beating the republican party 

  • Wilson is smart because he is an educator (he’s from Ohio)

Taft broke down Standard Oil which was from Ohio and Wilson was from Ohio; people from Ohio would fund Wilson so he could win

The Progressive platform that Wilson runs on and wants antitrust laws, banking reform, and reduction of tariffs

Roosevelt on this program under the Republican party

• Supported strong control of monopolies 

• Programs of social welfare 

• And women’s suffrage 

  • Only did it because women could vote for Roosevelt

Both wanted an active government role in economic and social affairs but disagree over strategies

Roosevelt was shot during a speech but continued until the speech was finished

Roosevelt and Taft’s votes were split between their party so Wilson won the presidency

Wilson won due to split Republican votes

Fell apart due to no local support