Sunday, April 21, 2013

AP US History Progressives-Depression Notes



3/21/13
I.               Theodore Roosevelt
A.             Background
1.             McKinley was killed, and Theodore Roosevelt became president
2.             Roosevelt considered himself progressive
a)             Progressives were leftover Populists who became part of the mainstream parties.  They took a lot of Populist ideas and incorporated into Progressive ideas
b)             One of the forerunners of the Progressive movement
3.             Very wealthy, but distrusted wealthy men who misused their money
4.             Reelected in 1904
B.             Known as the “trust buster”
1.             Ordered the Justice Department to implement the rules of the ICC and stop favoring corporations
2.             The first corporation he went after was Northern Securities, a J.P. Morgan company
3.             He also went against standard oil (Rockefeller)
4.             By the time Roosevelt left office, he had indicted 25 monopolies
C.            Acts and stuff
1.             Hepburn Act 1906
a)             Increased the ICC from 5 men to 7 men
b)             Insisted that the ICC enforces the rules concerning railroads
2.             Pure Food and Drug Act 1906
a)             Required labeling drugs
3.             Meat Inspection Act
a)             Federal regulation of meat
b)             Factories had to be inspected
4.             Immunity of Witness Act 1906
a)             Corporate officials could not take the 5th amendment to avoid testifying in cases dealing with their corporation’s illegal activities
5.             One of the first presidents interested in conservation
a)             If we don’t conserve our natural resources we will run out
b)             Ahead of his time with this idea
6.             Department of Commerce and Labor became a new cabinet
7.             Anthracite Coal Strike 1902
a)             Anthracite coal is the most commonly used coal
b)             At the beginning of the winter, the Anthracite coal miners went on strike
c)             Roosevelt decided to act as an arbitrator, and he emerged as a friend of labor
8.             Panic in 1907
9.             1904 St. Louis World’s Fair and Centennial of the Louisiana Purchase
D.            Square Deal- Roosevelt’s Progressive program
E.             Progressives
1.             Took up a lot of Populist ideas- felt that they picked up where the populists left off
2.             Evolutionary change from above rather than revolutionary change from below
3.             Honest government
4.             Labor recognition- unions have the right to organize
5.             Gender equality
6.             End racial segregation
7.             Child labor laws
8.             Prison reform- prisons should be rehabilitative as well as punitive
9.             Regulation of the Stock Market
10.          Direct election of Senators
F.             Muckrakers
1.             Investigative journalists and authors who exposed corruption in business and government through their writing
2.             Roosevelt felt that muckrakers unnecessarily stirred up trouble and were in many cases one sided
3.             Famous muckrakers
a)             Upton Sinclair, The Jungle
b)             Ida Tarbell- went after standard oil
G.            Foreign Policy
1.             Under Teddy Roosevelt, foreign policy was very aggressive
2.             Helped Panama gain its independence from Colombia, and we got control of the canal zone and built the canal
3.             Roosevelt Corollary added to Monroe Doctrine reinforced the idea that Europe was to stay out of our hemisphere
4.             Teddy won a Nobel Peace Prize for helping settle the Russo-Japanese War between Russia and Japan
5.             Joined 2nd Hague Conference
a)             Forerunner to the League of Nations
b)             If nations sit down and talk, there won’t be wars, tariffs, and problems
c)             Attempt to make war less likely
6.             Dollar Diplomacy- the best way to have diplomatic relations in another country is to invest money in that country
H.            Election of 1908
1.             Candidates
a)             Republicans
(1)           Roosevelt opted not to run and supported Taft of Ohio
(2)           Platform
(a)           Anti trust
(b)           Environmental conservation
(c)           Lower tariffs
b)             Democrats nominated William Jennings Bryan
(1)           Platform
(a)           Anti monopoly
(b)           Low tariffs
(2)           Even though the two parties had basically the same platforms, the Republicans managed to link Bryan to Populism which turned people against him
c)             Socialist candidate- Eugene Debs
2.             Taft won by a landslide, but the AFL publically supported Bryan (first time the unions publicly endorsed a candidate)
II.              Taft Presidency
A.             Continued most of Roosevelt’s policies, but not all of them
1.             Tariff reform
2.             Taft did not continue Roosevelt’s ideas of conservation
3.             Power of the Speaker of the House
a)             In those days, the speaker was also head of the Rules Committee, which was too much power
b)             Taft didn’t support the idea that these two powers should be split
B.             Progressives backed a man named Pinchot, chief justice of the Forest Service
1.             He accused the Secretary of the Interior, Ballinger, of giving the countries natural resources to private concerns
2.             After investigation, it was decided that Ballinger did nothing wrong
C.            16th Amendment proposed (ratified in 1913)- graduated income tax
D.            Election of 1912
1.             Candidates
a)             Roosevelt was really pissed at Taft so he decided he wanted to be president again, but the Republican party did not want to nominate him again.  Roosevelt created his own party, the Bull Moose Party
(1)           Platform was New nNtionalism
(2)           Basically a continuation of his Progressive actions from before
b)             Taft was nominated by the Republicans with his Quiet Confidence platform
c)             Democrats nominated Woodrow Wilson with his New Freedom platform
2.             Wilson won
III.            Wilson Presidency
A.             Wilson was the second Democrat elected president since the Civil War
B.             William Jennings Bryan was Wilson’s Secretary of State
C.            Trusts- main difference between Roosevelt and Wilson
1.             Roosevelt was willing to differentiate between good and bad trusts and control trusts through government regulation
2.             Wilson wanted to get rid of all trusts
D.            Underwood Simmons Act- reduction in tariffs
E.             Federal Reserve Act 1913- stabilize banking industry
F.             Clayton Anti-Trust Act 1914- corporations had to be responsible for their actions
G.            Wilson was Progressive except:
1.             He did not initially support women’s suffrage
2.             He did not initially support child labor regulation
3.             He did not initially support loans to farmers
H.            Election of 1916
1.             Candidates
a)             Democrats nominated Wilson (he campaigned that he would keep the country out of the war)
b)             Republicans nominated Charles Evans Hughes
IV.            World War I
A.             Immediate cause- 1914 Austria-Hungary decided to enlarge its territory
1.             Wanted Serbia to join the empire, but the Serbs didn’t agree
2.             Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary went to Sarajevo and was killed
3.             The Austro-Hungarians had an excuse to destroy Serbia.  They sent Serbia an ultimatum and once Germany supported them, they attacked Serbia
B.             US tried to remain neutral
1.             We were trading with England and France
2.             German Submarine Warfare- blowing up our ships
a)             According to international law, to blow up a ship you must ensure passenger safety
b)             Lusitania was a British ship carrying 200 Americans that was blown up by a German U-boat.  The Germans maintained that the Lusitania had far too much weaponry to be considered a cruise ship (which the British denied)
c)             Bryan believed the solution was to keep our ships out of the water
d)             Germans kept blowing up our ships, so the US began to prepare for war
C.            Dec. 1916 Germans proposed a peace conference
1.             Did not want Wilson at the conference
2.             Wilson offered to act as mediator, and proposed “Peace without victory based not upon a balance of power but on a community of power”
3.             I think Germany wasn’t d for this
D.            Feb. 1917 Zimmerman Note
1.             Zimmerman was the German foreign secretary who allegedly sent a note to the German minister in Mexico that said when Germany won the war, they would give back to Mexico everything the US stole from Mexico
2.             In March of 1917, Wilson called Congress into special session to ask for a declaration of war
a)             Zimmerman note proved we could not trust Germans
b)             Neutrality was not protecting us
c)             Bolshevik revolution had taken place in Russia, and now that it was Democratic it was an acceptable ally
d)             War had been going on for 3 years and we were fresh
E.             Effects of the War on America
1.             Disagreement on draft
2.             Women served in the army
3.             400,000 black men were drafted/enlisted, but they were in segregated units and very few fought
4.             Created a War Industries Board to help with the war effort
5.             Wheat-less Mondays and Meatless Tuesdays
6.             Espionage and Sedition Acts
a)             Espionage Act said you can be fined or imprisoned for making statements which aided the enemy, incited rebellion, or obstructed recruitment for the draft
b)             Sedition Act forbade any criticism of the government, the flag, or the uniform
c)             Eugene V. Debs was given a 10 year prison sentence because he made a speech at his party’s convention criticizing government policy
d)             Robert Goldstein was fined for making a movie that criticized the government
e)             The acts were upheld in Shank v. US, and Chief Justice Holmes said “Speech could be limited when there was a clear and present danger”
7.             Women took on traditionally male jobs
8.             Minorities found new jobs because there was a labor shortage
9.             Dec. 1917 Prohibition Amendment was passed
10.          1918 Interim Election- Wilson urged voters to elect a Democratic Congress, implying that a Republican victory would be an anti-war victory.  Still, the Republicans gained a majority
F.             Armistice October 1918
G.            Treaty of Versailles
1.             Wilson, Chamberlain of Great Britain, Daladier of France, and a representative of Italy (Italy switched sides in the middle of the war)
2.             Included many of Wilson’s 14 points
3.             Idea of the treaty was to try to make war less likely
4.             No secret alliances and no country could own the seas
5.             League of Nations
a)             Prevent war
b)             Court to solve differences
c)             Board of arbitration to solve problems
6.             US Senate refused to ratify the treaty
a)             Part of the treaty stated that if one member nation got into trouble, the others would help defend it
b)             Congress did not approve of this because it took away it’s exclusive right to declare war
H.            Postwar efforts- war officially ended and we had to get back to running the country normally
1.             Demobilization
a)             Troops returned home
b)             Congress had to provide for wounded veterans
c)             War industries were disbanded
d)             Interstate Commerce Commission expanded
2.             18th Amendment passed in 1919
3.             19th Amendment passed in 1920 and gave women the right to vote
4.             Red Scare
a)             1917 Communists took over in Russia, which made Americans very nervous that communism would spread
b)             FBI created to rid America of Communism
5.             Racial unrest
a)             Many blacks served in the war effort, and expected to return to better conditions because of their service to the country
b)             This was not the case- still second class citizens
The 20s
V.             Social History
A.             Living
1.             At first, majority of Americans lived in urban settings
2.             As car became popular, middle and some upper class moved out of the cities to the suburbs
3.             Standard of living rose because most homes had electricity and were no longer subject to running by sunrise and sunset (à increased production)
B.             Sexual Revolution
1.             Women had more freedom
2.             Divorce laws were liberalized
3.             Employment for women rose (still for lower pay), but most women stayed in traditional women’s jobs
C.            Movies
1.             Movies were in their heyday
2.             1929 first talkie
D.            Women’s magazines became popular, birth control became available
E.             Blacks
1.             Migration from south to north
2.             Harlem was the largest black community and went through a Renaissance in the 20s- showed that blacks had culture and could contribute
3.             Beginning of black pride
4.             W.E.B DuBois wrote The Crisis and wanted integration
5.             Marcus Garvey (a Jamaican) advocated segregation (blacks should accept that they’re black and be proud of it and not try to be white)
F.             Influx of Mexicans
1.             Moved to the Southwest of the US
2.             Started as agricultural day laborers
3.             Began to settle and lived in Barrios
G.            Education
1.             Elementary schools were free and open to everyone (except blacks in some areas)
2.             Kindergarten was added
3.             High Schools became more available- academic college prep schools and vocational education schools
H.            Religion
1.             Church and synagogue membership increased dramatically (more due to immigration than anything else)
2.             Social scene rather than sincere interest in religion
I.               Golden age of sports
J.              Commercial radio
1.             NBC started in 1926, CBS in 1927
K.             Writers- The Lost Generation
1.             Disillusioned with America’s materialism
2.             Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis, etc
3.             Moved to Europe to write away from American materialism
L.             Struggle between keeping traditional values while living in the modern world
M.            Rise of the KKK
1.             Hired publicists and advertised themselves as a group that endorsed politics (not a political party)
2.             Grand dragon murdered his girlfriend, and membership declined
N.            Restricted Immigration
1.             1921 no more than 3% of the amount of a nation already here could come into the country (aimed at Eastern Europeans)
2.             1924 National Origins Act directed at Asians
3.             1927 annual maximum immigration was limited 150,000 a year
O.            Prohibition
1.             Causes
a)             Alcohol was blamed for all the problems in the world
b)             Influx of Irish immigrants who drank a lot
2.             Prohibited the sale and purchase of alcohol
3.             Problems
a)             Hard to monitor
b)             Led to bootlegging
c)             Bathtub gin
d)             Speakeasies
e)             Organized crime
P.             By December 1920, the nation was divided between rural areas and urban areas
VI.            Politics
A.             1925 Scopes Trial (Monkey Trial)
1.             Tennessee legislature passed a law making it illegal to teach anything but creationism in terms of origin of man (spearheaded by William Jennings Bryan)
2.             The ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) convinced Scopes, a bio teacher, to teach evolution in his classroom.  He was arrested and put on trial with Clarence Darrow (Ben Brafman of the 20s) as his lawyer
3.             The case turned into a debate between Bryan and Darrow
4.             Scopes lost but only had a $100 fine
5.             Case highlights the tug of war between traditional and modern
B.             Sacco and Vanzetti
1.             April 1920 a shoe factory was held up and 2 men were killed
2.             Sacco and Vanzetti were arrested and tried for this crime
3.             Only evidence was that they were seen in the neighborhood, but they were known anarchists and immigrants
4.             Convicted and sentenced to death, but people today still argue that they were executed for their politics
C.            Leopold and Loeb
1.             Wanted to commit the perfect murder- murder someone who you had absolutely no connection to
2.             Kidnapped a 6 year old and killed him
3.             Bragged about it and got caught
D.            Harding
1.             Elected in the beginning of the 20s
2.             All about big business
3.             Pardoned Eugene V. Debs (who was arrested for Espionage), which set the tone of his administration
4.             Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes (who had been a Supreme Court justice), Secretary of Treasury Andrew Mellon (richest man in America), Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover- Harding’s pals who were all pretty unsuited for their positions
5.             Scandals
a)             Teapot Dome Scandal
(1)           Albert Fall, Secretary of the Interior, secured the transfer of several naval oil reserves to his jurisdiction
(2)           Fall secretly leased these reserves to two men who had given him money in an unsecured loan (basically took a bribe to give them this lease)
(3)           Fall was caught and put in prison
b)             Forbes, head of Veterans Bureau, stole $250 million. 
c)             Dauherty, Attorney General, took bribes from bootleggers
6.             Harding went on a tour to Alaska in 1923 and came back to California and died, and Coolidge became president.  He finished Harding’s term and then was reelected (even though he didn’t really want to be president)
E.             Coolidge
1.             Didn’t really want to be president
2.             Didn’t nominate good leadership
3.             Typical republican platform- business development, low taxes
4.             Three mottos
a)             “The business of the US is business”
b)             “The man who builds a factory builds a temple”
c)             “4/5 of all our troubles in this world would disappear if people would only sit down and keep quiet”
5.              
F.             Election of 1929
1.             Candidates
a)             Coolidge opted not to run again, so the Republicans nominated Herbert Hoover (platform- follow the policies of Harding and Coolidge)
b)             Democrats nominated Alfred E. Smith
2.             Hoover Won
VII.          The Great Depression
A.             Background
1.             General good
a)             There were a lot of new inventions in the 20s (radios, cars)
b)             Soldiers were back from the war and were acclimating back into American life
c)             Beginnings of commercial air flight
d)             Because stocks were so good, everyone wanted
(1)           Brokers would advance investors 90%
2.             This illusionary prosperity was not shared by everybody
a)             Farmers made a lot of money during the war selling to Britain, but after the war the British didn’t need them anymore so they were in debt
b)             Railroads weren’t doing well because of the rise of the car
c)             Textiles weren’t doing well because they couldn’t keep up
d)             Exports dropped
e)             Worldwide depression- no money to bail us out
3.             Big smart investors realized stocks were overpriced and this would not last, so they began to sell.  Once they began to sell, everyone began to sell
a)             October 24th, 1929 (Black Thursday) almost 13 million shares were traded and prices fell
b)             Investment banks decided to buy these stocks to boost the market but it didn’t work
c)             October 29th (Black Tuesday) the market fell
B.             Results
1.             We had depressions in this country before, so most people (including Hoover) thought the Depression would right itself
2.             GNP fell from 104 to 56
3.             Unemployment was 25%
4.             National income dropped 54%
5.             Over 5,000 banks failed
6.             As the depression grew worse, more people lost jobs, and those that had jobs had their salaries cut
7.             NY, the richest state, could only afford to give 4 dollars a week to a family for welfare
8.             People lost homes, marriage and birth rate declined, people went town to town looking for jobs
9.             State and local agencies and private charities were very overwhelmed
10.          The depression was worldwide, so we couldn’t look to other countries for help
C.            Hoover’s attempts
1.             Volunteerism
a)             Hoover felt that relief/welfare was not in the best interest of the American people because if you give it to people there’s no incentive to work
b)             Asked corporations not to lay people off or cut salaries
c)             Asked unions not to strike
d)             This did not help enough
2.             Public Works Program
a)             Creates jobs
b)             Not enough money to deal with this
3.             Basically everything Hoover tried required money, but there was no money to do it
D.            1926 a bill was passed that stated that in 1945 veterans of WWI would get a bonus for serving
1.             In the summer of 1932, 14,000 unemployed veterans marched on Washington to ask for their bonus now
2.             Half went home, half stayed and continued to lobby for their money
3.             Two veterans were killed in a fight with the police, and the veterans were ordered to leave.  Hoover sent in 3 army generals to evacuate them
E.             Election of 1932
1.             Republicans nominated Hoover and his platform was a continuation of his policies
2.             Democrats were not united- torn between FDR and John Nance Garner until Garner gave up his votes to Roosevelt
3.             New Deal- Roosevelt’s Platform
a)             Repeal prohibition
b)             Government aid to the unemployed
c)             25% cut in government spending
4.             Roosevelt won
F.              
VIII.          

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