1. How did Roosevelt create the modern presidency?
He thought that the government should take control of states' problems when the states themselves couldn't deal with them. Also, he started to do his hobbies, such as boxing, in the white house. The Roosevelt administration also made "various progressive reforms" which came to be known as the Square Deal.
2. How did Roosevelt's intervention in a coal strike set a precedent for federal arbitration?
After Roosevelt's intervention in a coal strike the people started to expect the federal government to intervene whenever there was a strike because they saw how peacefully and orginized a settlement can be between the workers and employeers; that's what set the precedent for federal arbitration.
3. What did Roosevelt do to the trusts and railroads?
For the trusts Roosevelt filed forty-four suits and won some and broke up some trusts, but that still didn't slow the merger movement in business. Roosevelt helped pass the Elkins act which made it illegal for railroad officials to give and shippers to recieve rebates for using particular railroads, and it also said that the railroads couldn't change their rates without notifying the public.
4. What legislation passed during Roosevelt's presidency protected citizens?
The Meat Inspection Act passed during Roosevelt's presideny that protected citizens from uncleansiness in the factories and from bad meat. The act made the workers in the meat factories and the factories be as clean as a whistle, and the meat had to be inspected so it didn't contain any diseases and etcetera.
5. What did Roosevelt do to protect the environment?
Roosevelt preserved 148 million acres of forest reserve, 1.5 million acres of water-power sites, 80 million acres of land, and established more that 50 wildlife sanctuaries and several national parks. He did this though partially to make areas of dry soil to be able to be apart of agriculture.
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Friday, October 2, 2009
Urbanization
1. What is Urbanization?
Urbanization is the growth of cities. After the technological boom immigrants from all over the place influxed into mostly the Northeast and Midwest, and resulted in a rapid urbanization. As the immigrants came in they moved to the cities and they became overcrowded. They came to the cities because it was cheaper to live and easier to find a job or jobs; especially if they were unskilled they could work in the factories.
2. For what reasons did a number of Americans move from the country to the cities?
Many Americans moved from the country to the cities because of the inventions in farming, such as the McCormick reaper, laborers working on farms were no longer needed and laid off so they went to the cities for industrial work and it was cheaper in the cities to live.
3. What were the housing problems that many poor city dwellers faced?
The housing problems that many poor city dwellers faced were crowded housing, poor ventillation in the home, transportation, dirty water, and bad hygeinic issues in the cities. The homes in cities were first meant for a single family but the immigrants squeezed in three families. Then the city government tried to make ventillation in the homes by putting a small window in them, but the people would put their garbage in the windows because they had no other place to put it. The cities weren't capable of replacing old transportation, like electric subways in Boston. Some homes couldn't get plumbing for water so they would have to go to faucets out in the streets and even the people that did have plumbing it wasn't very sufficient. Lastly, there was very bad sanitation in the cities. The people would put their raw sewage in the gutters, horse manure was piled in the streets, factories put hazardous smoke into the air, and garbage was just put in the streets. Eventually there became paid "scavengers" that would sweep the streets, pick up garbage, and clean outhouses but they never did their job properly.
Urbanization is the growth of cities. After the technological boom immigrants from all over the place influxed into mostly the Northeast and Midwest, and resulted in a rapid urbanization. As the immigrants came in they moved to the cities and they became overcrowded. They came to the cities because it was cheaper to live and easier to find a job or jobs; especially if they were unskilled they could work in the factories.
2. For what reasons did a number of Americans move from the country to the cities?
Many Americans moved from the country to the cities because of the inventions in farming, such as the McCormick reaper, laborers working on farms were no longer needed and laid off so they went to the cities for industrial work and it was cheaper in the cities to live.
3. What were the housing problems that many poor city dwellers faced?
The housing problems that many poor city dwellers faced were crowded housing, poor ventillation in the home, transportation, dirty water, and bad hygeinic issues in the cities. The homes in cities were first meant for a single family but the immigrants squeezed in three families. Then the city government tried to make ventillation in the homes by putting a small window in them, but the people would put their garbage in the windows because they had no other place to put it. The cities weren't capable of replacing old transportation, like electric subways in Boston. Some homes couldn't get plumbing for water so they would have to go to faucets out in the streets and even the people that did have plumbing it wasn't very sufficient. Lastly, there was very bad sanitation in the cities. The people would put their raw sewage in the gutters, horse manure was piled in the streets, factories put hazardous smoke into the air, and garbage was just put in the streets. Eventually there became paid "scavengers" that would sweep the streets, pick up garbage, and clean outhouses but they never did their job properly.
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