1. Word Splash Make a sentence out of the following words.
Muckraker(s), Progressive Era, Upton Sinclair, Big Business
Three Minutes….GO!

2. Picture Analysis
Use the Worksheet to answer the questions

3. Take Aways Assassination of McKinley Roosevelt- The True Progressive
TR and Big Business

4. Progressives in the White House 22-3
TR: American Lion

5. Writing Prompt Who is your favorite super hero?
What is their super power?
Why is this person your favorite?
Write a minimum of 5 lines please.

7. T.R.’s Legacy
What do you think T.R.’s legacy will be?

8. Assassination of McKinley
Shot by an anarchist named Leon Czolgolsz (Chal-gosh).
Teddy Roosevelt took the presidency on September 14, 1901.

9. T.R. and BIG Business Believed in “good trusts” and “bad trusts”
Bad Trust- unfair, takes advantage of American public
T.R. “the Trustbuster”
someone who wants to destroy all trusts
T.R. just wanted to regulate them.

11. T.R. and BIG Business Began to crack down on Big Business
Railroads main target!
Broke up monopolies and trusts
Gained support from laborers and working class
James J. Hill
E.H. Harriman
Rockefeller
J.P. Morgan

12. Stop and Think How did Teddy Roosevelt become president?
How did he handle big business and trusts?

13. Square Deal Everyone should have a fair opportunity to succeed
Farmers, Consumers, Workers, Owners

14. Pure Food and Drug Act T.R. shocked by reading The Jungle
Officials inspected meat packing plants
Passed in 1906
Must list all ingredients on packaging
Must end all false advertising of food

15. Conservation Believed in conservation of land
Loved outdoors
Created national parks
Protected against deforestation

16. Homework
Word Splash
Create ONE sentence using ALL of the following words:
Teddy Roosevelt, Progressive(s), Trustbuster, Big Business, Square Deal.

17. Other Major Accomplishments for TR
Big Stick Diplomacy- “Speak softly, but carry a big stick.” - TR
The Great White Fleet- U.S. Navy
Toured the world to “Show Off” superior Navy.

18. The Great White Fleet

19. Other Major Accomplishments for TR
The Panama Canal
Passageway between the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean.
It was NOT completed until after TR’s presidency, but began during it.

20. The Panama Canal

21. Homework
Of Teddy Roosevelt’s accomplishments, choose two and explain why you think they are the two most important.
Trustbusting, the square deal (be specific), conservation, the panama canal, the great white fleet
Write a minimum of 8 lines total and underline the two choices in your paragraph!

22. Warm Up
Get up and stand in front of TR’s accomplishment that you think was most important
Be ready to defend your choice!
GO!

23. Taft and the Progressives
TR wanted Taft to replace him.
Taft was a Progressive.
Very different personality than TR
William Howard Taft

24. Opinion Splits on Taft Taft supported many of TR’s ideas However…
graduated income, safety laws for miners, 8 hour work day, child labor laws.
However…
Lost a lot of support with the Payne-Aldrich Tariff.
Raised taxes

25. Taft losses support Ballinger-Pinchot affair
Went against Teddy’s conservation ideas
Because of this, Roosevelt and Taft were no longer friends

26. Stop and Think How was Taft different from Roosevelt?
Why did he and TR have a falling out?

27. 1912: A Three Way Election Roosevelt ran for President again.
Represented the Bull Moose Party
Taft represented the Republican party.
Woodrow Wilson would represent the Democratic Party.

28. Woodrow Wilson Wilson was a Progressive,
Represented the Democratic Party
Wilson would go on to beat out Taft in 1912

29. New Freedom Wilson’s policies Believed in competitive business.
Continued to break up trusts.
Believed in competitive business.
New Freedom
Supported lowering taxes and increasing foreign trade

30. Wilson’s Accomplishments
**Federal Reserve Act**- 3 tiered banking system
1st level- Federal Reserve Board ran the system
2nd level- 12 Federal Reserve Banks serve as “banks for other banks”
3rd level- smaller private banks- could borrow from 2nd level. Offered affordable banking

31. Wrap Up How is Wilson different from both TR and Taft?
Explain two policies/accomplishments of Wilson.