1. STARRING: William Taft & Woodrow Wilson

4. 1908 victory

7. President Taft "Politics: when I am in it, it makes me sick." Trust Buster (more than TR)Trust Buster (more than TR) Conservation (more than TR)Conservation (more than TR)

8. Under TR’s Shadow: Taft never measured up to Teddy’s legacy.

9. 1912 Election TR’s new partyTR’s new party Teddy “Boris the Bullet-dodger” RooseveltTeddy “Boris the Bullet-dodger” Roosevelt New Nationalism:New Nationalism: –Tariff Reduction –Women’s Suffrage –End to Child Labor –8 Hour Workday

11. Splitting the Republican Party Taft and TR split the Republican vote, giving the election to…

12. Wilson Trust-busterTrust-buster 1916 reelection platform1916 reelection platform

13. Woodrow Wilson Wilson’s NEW FREEDOM plan: Wilson’s first major victory was tariff reduction.

14. Woodrow Wilson Attacked trusts by helping Congress pass the Clayton Antitrust Act (strengthened the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890.) Favored by labor Unions Legalized strikes, picketing and boycotts

15. Woodrow Wilson Wilson and Congress created the Federal Trade Commission to enforce the Clayton Antitrust Act.

16. Woodrow Wilson Federal Reserve Act created the Federal Reserve System to overhaul banking system. Labor Department attacked child labor and protected female workers

17. Limits of Progressivism The changes made by Progressives were limited to certain groups in the United States.

18. Woodrow Wilson Progressives championed municipal reforms, but did little for tenant or migrant farmers. Progressive Presidents took little action to pursue social justice reforms.

19. Limits of Progressivism Wilson continued the Jim Crow practice, begun under Taft, of separating the races in federal offices.

20. Woodrow Wilson At the 1912 Progressive Party convention, Roosevelt declined to seat black delegates from the South for fear of alienating white Southern Progressives.

21. WWI ends the Progressive Movement Amendments 16 th - Income Tax 17 th - Direct Election of Senators 18 th - Prohibition 19 th - Women’s Suffrage