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The Progressive Era by P5 US HIstory
The podcast that is being brought to you today is about the Women’s Suffrage movement and how it affected current day gender roles. This podcast includes a story about the women that were part of the movement and how they played parts in changing gender roles along with different ways in which they did that. The podcast also includes the discussion of how many of the women in the movement affected today's roles.
Sean and Joseph further explore the tragedy of the Shirtwaist Fire that occurred in 1911 in todays episode of History 101
Welcome to Julia and Kacy's podcast, "Way Back When!" Today we discuss Progressive Labor Unions!
In our podcast we discuss the development and progress of the Temperance movement in America during the 1900s. The Temperance movement’s main goal was to limit/eliminate the use of alcohol from America. The Anti-Saloon League played a large role in getting the 18th amendment passed. The ASL would send professional speech makers into the public to educate people about the dangers of alcohol and the benefits of prohibition. A shocking number of people agreed with the ASL. From southern whites to black civil rights leaders, from working class people to the country’s richest, everyone seemed to agree that prohibition was the way to go. Surprisingly, despite all the public approval, many people continued to drink alcohol after the passing of the 18th amendment, which banned production and transportation of all alcoholic drinks. Congress hired someone during this period to deliver alcohol to their offices. We use this information do draw parallels to modern day substance control issues.
In our podcast episode, we tell the stories of how the government was corrupt during the progressive era, and how it got reformed. Many citizens committed voter fraud such as shaving their beard and voting again, voting using the name of a dog or infant, and many more. Citizens did this because powerful political machines would bribe them. For example, John D Rockefeller could potentially tell citizens that he will give them tax relief if they voted for him multiple times. In order to fix this, many government reforms were carried out. For example, the progressives wanted to change how US senators were elected. In order to do this, they influenced congress to carry out the Seventeenth Amendment, which stated that voters could elect their state senators. Three other reform movements were carried out, such as initiative, referendum, and recall. During initiative, voters could introduce new ideas to legislature, and show the rest of the public what their reform idea was. Referendum would then allow power by the people- if a certain number of citizens voted for an idea, they could force legislature to carry out or veto that idea. Finally, recall allowed for voters to remove a certain elected official from office, if the public got enough votes to do so. These ideas followed a path of democracy. There were also mayors that helped reform the corrupt government as well. In conclusion, the government needed to be reformed during the progressive era because of how unfair it was. Progressives took this opportunity to make many reforms to the election process.
In this episode of the US Daily Podcast Stevie and Christian discuss the election of 1912. This was an election between William Howard taft, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson and Eugene Debs. After Roosevelt wasn't able to win the nomination for the Republican candidate he created his own party, “The Progressive Party” and ran against his old friend, Taft. This caused a split in the republican votes and allowed the only Democrat, Woodrow Wilson to win the election, which greatly affected American history.
In this podcast, we talk about how W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington compare and contrast to each other. We talk about the good and bad things that Du Bois and Washington had done. We also talked about how the American Indians and the African Americans fought back to stop racial discrimination in the twentieth century.
Today we go back in time sharing stories from our families past. In the early 1900's, Americans were up against the vile meat industry and miners on strike. Between Ali's great-grandmother and Grace's great-grandfather, we learn about Americas past health conditions and how the "Square Deal" came about. Enjoy!