1. Presidents Roosevelt, Taft, & Wilson
DO NOW: Write 5 things that President Roosevelt was famous for doing. Agenda Analyze Data Multimedia Overview Notes Student Workbook Project

2. Review Progressivism – move forward
Social Problems –child labor, unsafe work, poverty, slums
Muskrakers – journalist who wrote unsafe meat and housing
Teddy Roosevelt – “Trust Buster”, National Parks, “Teddy” Bear
Women Suffrage - woman wanted to vote
Review

3. Women’s Suffrage (vote)
Read the article titled Seneca Falls Declaration, 1848
Open your books to pages 56-57
What similarities do you notice with the article?
Watch the following video about Women’s Suffrage and answer the questions on the handout.
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4. PROJECT – Voting Pamphlet
Pretend that you are in favor or not in favor of women getting the right to vote.
Create a pamphlet to express your opinion.
Include art work.
Write 5 reasons why
Women should or should not be allowed to vote.
Women and Voting

5. Progressive Political Reforms

6. Direct Primary required political parties to hold votes in which all party members could participate in choosing a candidate for the general Election
Direct Primary
Led by Robert La Follete

7. Initiative, Referendum and Recall
Initiative allows a group of citizens to introduce legislation and required the legislature to vote on it
Referendum allows citizens to vote on proposed laws directly without going to the legislature
Recall provides voters an option to demand a special election to remove elected officials prior to the end of their term
Initiative, Referendum and Recall

8. ROOSEVELT IN OFFICE
I. Roosevelt revives the presidency
A. Roosevelt takes on the trusts
B. The Coal Strike of 1902
C. Regulating Big Business
II. Social Welfare and Conservation
A. Conservation
III. Taft’s Progressive Reforms
A. Taft’s Approach to Government
B. The Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act
C. The Ballinger-Pinchot Controversy
D. Taft’s Achievements
Am. History Workbook Open up your American History Workbooks to page 82

9. Compare and Contrast Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson
Look at the list of accomplishments for Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson on the next slide.
Complete the Venn Diagram to compare and contrast the three presidents’ accomplishments.
Compare and Contrast Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson

10. Comparing the Progressive Presidents
14. Gave up the Presidency in 1908 to big game hunt in Africa
15. Supported the creation of the Federal Reserve System to supervise all banks
16. Signed the Clayton Anti-Trust Act
17. Supported the creation of the Federal Trade Commission
18. Called for a “Square Deal” for business, labor, and consumers
19. Was a former history professor at Princeton University
20. Threatened use of federal troops to negotiate the end of the 1902 coal strike
21. Appointed Gifford Pinchot as head of the U.S. Forest Service
22. Fired Gifford Pinchot, Chief of the U.S. Forest Service
23. Supported Conservation measures
24. Ran in the 1912 Presidential Election
25. Women suffragists confronted him on their right to vote
26. Helped pass the Meat Inspection Act
Democrat
Republicans
Progressive Party (Bull Moose Party
Sponsored the “New Freedom”
Sponsored the “New Nationalism”
Was a “Trustbuster”
Claimed to be “Progressive”
Wanted the federal government to protect American consumers and workers
Wanted to destroy “Bad” Trusts but only regulate “Good” Trusts
Passed the Underwood Tariff which lowered tariffs and levied an income tax
Was a former Vice President
Wanted to break up the Trusts, regardless of whether or not they limited competition.
Supported the Payne Aldrich Tariff

11. Democrat Party
Professor at Princeton University
New Freedom
Destroy “Bad” Trusts but regulate “Good” Trusts
Underwood Tariff- lowered tariffs, income tax
Federal Reserve System to supervise all banks
Federal Trade Commission
Clayton Anti-Trust Act
Women suffragists confronted him to get to vote

12. The Wilson Years
The Wilson Years
Economic Reforms
Social Reforms
1. Underwood Tariff Act
5. Keating-Owen Child Labor Act
2. Federal Reserve Act
6. Adamson Act
3. Federal Trade Commission
4. Federal Farm Loan Act
Am. History Workbook Open up your American History Workbooks to page 85