1. Good Morning!!! NVC The Progressive Presidents Women’s Suffrage
Essential Question #1: Who were the Progressives Presidents and what did they accomplish?
Essential Question #2: Why did it take so long for women to get the right to vote?
Homework: TEST NEXT TUES/THURS!

2. The Progressive Presidents

3. Use the following lecture notes to fill out the boxes of the graphic organizer!
Teddy Roosevelt
William Taft
Woodrow Wilson
Similarities
Political Reforms
Economic Reforms
Social Reforms

4. Theodore Roosevelt Republican President comes to power in 1901
“The man who holds that every human right is secondary to his profit must now give way to the advocate of human welfare.”--Teddy
Political Reforms
Square Deal: regulate big business to protect workers and consumers
Economic Reforms
“Trust Busting” with the Sherman Anti-Trust Act (busts railroads)
Social Reforms
Pure Food and Drug Act: sets up FDA  response to Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle
U.S. Forest Service: National Forests!

5. William Howard Taft Republican President and Teddy’s successor (1908)
“The welfare of the farmer and the worker is vital to that of the whole country”—Taft
Political Reform
Limits power of big business in government
Social Reform
Adds to national forests
Child’s Bureau: investigate child labor
Economic Reform
Promises to lower tariffs
Raises them instead (!!) and angers Roosevelt

6. Woodrow Wilson Democrat president elected 1912 Social Reform
“The ear of a leader must ring with the voices of the people”—Woody
Social Reform
Abolishes Child labor
18th Amendment: Prohibition of Alcohol
Economic Reform
Federal Reserve System: system to regulate banks
16th Amendment: income tax
Political Reform
17th Amendment: direct election of Senators
19th Amendment: WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE!

7. History of Women’s Suffrage
Suffrage: the right to vote
Seneca Falls Convention (1848)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Declaration of Sentiments
Suffrage Amendment first proposed in 1878 by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
19th Amendment not passed until 1920

8. What took so long?!
Why did some people oppose Women’s Suffrage?

9. Women’s Suffrage…

10. Election of 1912 Election of 1912 Taft/Roosevelt split vote
William Howard Taft: Republican
Theodore Roosevelt: Progressive “Bull Moose” Third Party!
Woodrow Wilson: Democrat
Eugene Debs: Socialist
Taft/Roosevelt split vote
Woodrow Wilson wins, goes on to pass Suffrage amendment