Progressives vs big business (ME) Jade Kramer

Progressives thought that large companies needed regulation and that the government should break them up to restore competition. However, others argued that big companies were efficient way to organize the economy and would prevent the companies from abusing their power.  The progressives even advocated socialism. Socialism was the idea that the government should own and operate industry for the community. The progressives wanted the government to buy large companies that people relied on 

J. Edgar Hoover (KI) Nick Attkisson

            Hoover was a founding leader of the F.B.I, he was admitted into the special group after Palmer declared a “blaze of revolution, was burning up the foundations of society”. Because of that created a special group within the justice department, the General Intelligence division. Hoover was accounted for making the FBI into a large known crime fighting agency. He also helped today’s modern technologies, such as the finger print file and forensic laboratories. Edgar took advantage of his powers, harassing political parties to gain a amass file on political leaders.

President Woodrow Wilson (KI) Nick Attkisson

Woodrow Wilson was the president of the United States from 1913 to 1921. He was a big role in the progressive movement during his first term. After his re-election he had the control of the entry of America in WW1. In this entire second term he focused on WW1 and the peace treaty in Paris.in the late stages of war Wilson took personal control of negotiations with Germany, especially with the armistice. He ended up making the 14 points, his view of post war. He went to Paris and achieved the creation of the League of Nations, and created the Treaty of Versailles. The League paid special attention to the idea of taking defunct empires and making new nations out of them. The senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles due to Wilson having a stroke leaving his wife in control until 1921.  

The Airplane’s First Flight (ME) Shania Campbell

In 1903 Orville and Wilber Wright (later famously known as the Wright Brothers), successfully had their first flight. The plane ascended to a height of 10 feet, and could travel 120 feet. It was only in the air for 12 seconds. The brothers actually observed birds while they were in flight, and noticed how the birds flew into the wind, with the air flowing over the bent exterior of their wings, which created a lift.

They thought that they could use and manipulate these ideas to create a craft that could fly. They studied propellers, and how they worked, which allowed them to design a motor. The new aircraft should be sturdy enough to hold up the motor’s heaviness and vibrations. With this aircraft, they were prosperous with the first motorized, conducted flight in history.

The Discovery of the Rabies Vaccine (KI) Shania Campbell

Rabies is not only contagious and fatal, but it drove the host of the disease to insanity. And in fact, before around 1885, almost always ended in the person’s death. It’s a viral disease found in dogs and other mammals that causes madness and convulsions. It’s transmissible through the saliva to humans. In other words, a human can contract the disease from a dog bite, if that dog has it.

Louis Pasteur worked at finding the first rabies vaccination. He found the vaccine by harvesting samples of the virus from rabbits that had it. He weakened the Virus by letting it dry out. He tested his vaccine on dogs, but the first human test was July 6^th of 1885. Joseph Meister had been badly mauled by a rabid dog, but the vaccine successfully prevented him from getting the disease.

The Prohibition of Alcohol (ME) Jade Kramer

            The Progressives believed that hard earned wages were mostly spent on alcohol, they also believed that it was the cause to sickness, abuse and that it caused the work that employees did to be less efficient. Progressives blamed alcohol for society’s problems; this created the temperance movement; which encouraged citizens to spend less money on alcohol. In the begging of the 20^th century there were temperance organizations in nearly every state. Over half the U.S had already had statues that prohibited alcohol by 1916. In 1919 the U.S constitution added a new amendment that prohibited the sale of alcohol. 

Monopoly (ME) Shania Campbell

               Think of the popular board game Monopoly. What is the purpose of the game? Buy properties, and earn a profit. By the end of the game, whoever has the most money, wins. This is how real life Monopolies work. It’s an exclusive possession or complete control of the supply or trade in a product or service.

                It is possible for a Monopoly to be illegal. Some examples include Price Fixing, Price Discrimination, Exclusive Dealings, Group Boycotts, and Tying Contracts. Price fixing is where competitors settle with buying or selling products or services at a fixed price, not to be confused with Price discrimination, which is just where you sell similar products to buyers at altered prices. Exclusive Dealings is requiring a buyer or seller to purchase or sell most, or all of a certain product from a single supplier.  Group Boycotts are competitors agreeing to reject a certain entity. And lastly, tying contracts are selling products or services on the condition that the buyer comes to an agreement to also buy a different product or service as well.