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PROGRESSIVE PRESIDENTS
Review
Who are the Presidents of the Progressive Era?
What were some of TR’s accomplishments during his time in office?
Do you think the next presidents were successful like TR?
Anti Trust Act Sherman Antitrust
Act of 1890Keep big business in
check By 1909, 42 antitrust
actStandard Oil
Trust Buster
Taft What was Taft’s
foreign policy plan? Taft was hand
picked by TRWon easily
RepublicanPromised to continue
to follow progressive idea
Antitrust and other gov’t reform
Trouble for Taft Didn’t have TR’s
personality Gave in to the “old
guard” Didn’t lower tariffs Progressives and
Republicans Did not like Taft
Ballinger-Pinchot Affair
More problems Conservationists Secretary of the Interior- Ballinger
Gave away Alaskan public land Forrest Service Director-Pinchot
Protested the selling Not guilty
New Nationalism
Midterm election 1910Republicans lost seatsProgressive
○ Republicans and Democrats ruled the Senate
TRStronger working conditionsIncome and inheritance taxesNEW NATIONALISM
How do you think Taft did as the President? Did alright
Reserved more land Antitrust suits
16th and 17th Amendment
Interstate Commerce Commission
Never gained support of his party
Election of 1912 TR and Taft wanted
the Republican nomination Taft won
Progressives created their own partyBull Moose Party
Bull Moose Party
“I feel fit as a moose” Platform for the party
Lower tariffsMore regulation on businesses End child laborWomen’s suffrage
Very popular
Election Wilson ran on
reformBlamed big business
and government New Freedom
Enforce antitrust without hurting economic competition
42% of votes Split Republican party
helped
Compare the Elections
Election of 1912 Election of 2008
Wilson- 42% TR- 27% Taft-23% Debs-6%
Obama- 53% McCain-46% Nader-.56% Barr-.40%
Present Day Call for a 3rd Party
Wilson’s Policies
Known as a reformer Clayton Antitrust Act
Strengthen the Sherman Act of 1890Allowed the gov’t to regulate business
Created the Federal Trade CommissionFair trade laws
The Federal Reserve System Federal Reserve System
Reorganized the federal banking system Open you books to page 299
With a partner 1 person do 1 and 2The other 3 and 4Put the characteristics of the Federal
Reserve in your own words
Federal Reserve
1. Created regional federal banks Store capital and cash
2. Supervised by a board selected by the pres.
3. Allow to borrow money-short term
4. Created currency Expand or contract the circulation of money
Other Accomplishments and Failures of Wilson Created Farm Loan Bank
Allowed farmers to get loans Selecting Louis Brandeis to the Supreme
Court Failures
Cabinet members extended Jim Crow practice Opposed an amendment on women’s suffrage
No problemWon easily in 1912
Limits of Progressivism
Different viewsWanted to fix problems in citiesDidn’t help farmers, nonunion workersLimit immigrationLook overseas to help out
African Americans and Progressivism Only a small amount
benefited Creation of the
NAACP Issues in the South
Did not want to lose votes
Women’s Suffrage
Women’s Suffrage
1848Seneca Falls, NY
Susan B. AnthonyAgainst slavery Demanded women be apart of the 14th and
15th AmendmentsCivil Disobedience: Nonviolent refusal of a
law
National American Woman Suffrage Association NAWSA- Created by
Anthony, Lucy Stone By 1900
Women could own, sell, will property
Demand to vote went up
Became more active Why do you think
people would oppose women’s suffrage?
Strategies for Suffrage Its 1910, how would
you try to earn the right to vote?
1- push for an amendment¾ of the states
needed to ratify States allow voting
Each state would pass its own laws
Different Ideas NAWSA
Peaceful approachProtest but peaceful
State Legislation Plan to have each
state pass laws
Congressional Union (CU)Aggressive approachMilitant protest
Push for an amendment
The End of Suffrage
WWIWomen took on jobs that men had
Prohibition Lost a reason to fight suffrage
HoweverAugust 24, 1920-19th Amendment was
passedLast major reform of the Progressive Era