AMH 2020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Federal Meat Inspection Act, William Jennings Bryan, Sixteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution
8 Feb 2017
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Populism: 1890: people"s party get ordinary people to participate/ buy in , they want direct election of senators (better representation) (17th amendment, representation for workers. Compensation/ economic relief: income tax 16th amendment. 1894 coxey"s army: economic relief: march on washington. Three presidents during progressive era: theodore rosevelt (r) (1901-1909) Champion square deal : help the common folk, regulate monopolies/trusts, regulate food/drug. 1906 pure food & drug act (creates fda) and federal meat inspection act. 1906 he wins noble peace prize: negotiates peace with russia-japan. Foreign policy: speak softly, carry a big stick great white fleet : roosevelt corollary allows u. s. to intervene in european territory in the. Runs again in 1912 under bull-moose party. Thursday, january 19, 2017: wiliam h. taft (r) (1909-1913) More reserved than tr on progressive ideals: woodrow wilson (d) Theodore roosevelt and taft take votes from each other so wilson wins.
