1. PRESIDENTIAL PROGRESSIVE REFORMS

2. Teddy Roosevelt 1902 Coal Strike: Called both sides to White House to mediate deal Made each side submit to an arbitration commission Significance: Showed Power of Federal Government to intervene in affairs of business in the national interest

3. Teddy Roosevelt TRUSTS Believed in: keep good trusts, eliminate bad ones Eliminated 44 trusts he said were bad

4. Teddy Roosevelt Unregulated Big Business: Urged Congress to strengthen Interstate Commerce Act REGULATE RAILROADS: ELKINS ACT (1903): illegal for RR to give or receive rebates; can’t change set rates HEPBURN ACT (1906): ICC can set maximum railroad rates

5. T. Rex SOCIAL REFORM: Help ensure public health and the environment Read THE JUNGLE, ordered investigation of the meat industry 1906 MEAT INSPECTION ACT PURE FOOD AND DRUG ACT PURE FOOD AND DRUG ACT

6. T. Rex The Environment: set aside 148 million acres of national land, 1.5 mill acres of water power sites, 80 mill acres to be explores for land/mineral resources 50 wildlife sancturies National Park System National Reclamation Act: Fed gov’t protects resources in the West

7. T. Rex Civil Rights invites Booker T. Washington to White House to eat DOES NOT PASS ANY LAWS TO ALLEVIATE JIM CROW LAWS OR TO BAN LYNCHING

8. WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT TRUST BUSTER: busted 90 Trusts NON-PROGRESSIVE: –Fired G. Pinchot, took lands out of trust –Payne-Aldrich Tariff: raising tariffs –No major work for women or minorities

9. WOODROW WILSON Focused on Economic Reform: If he broke up large concentrations of power, he would then fix things for average citizens Federal Trade Act: investigate corporations and unfair business practices Clayton Anti-Trust Act: Strengthened Sherman Anti-Trust Act

10. Wilson Economic Reforms Underwood Tariff: lower tariffs 16 th Amendment: Income tax Federal Reserve Act: decentralized banking system under federal control

11. W. Wilson Women: 19 th Amendment: Suffrage Civil Rights: Promises many things to get elected: –Opposed anti-lynching laws (state law) –Appointed segregationists to cabinet –Allowed re-segregation of federal offices