Put Phones Away! Electronics= Full Day ISAP!!!

YOU MUST: Bring your Notebook And Take all notes! It WILL Affect your grade!

Reminder: NO Hall Passes At Western HS. Use your Time wisely between classes.

Presidents: Roosevelt, The Progressive Presidents: Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson

Key Terms/Events Progressivism/Progressive Presidents Teddy Roosevelt Square Deal Trusts The Jungle Meat Inspection Act Pure Food and Drug Act Conservation William Howard Taft Election of 1912 Woodrow Wilson Progressive Income Tax Federal Reserve A Shadow on the Horizon

REVIEW: Progressivism: The Desire to solve America’s Modern social problems Progressive Presidents Would use the power Of the government….

Theodore Roosevelt Teddy R. used the power of the presidency to deal directly with social and economic problems Believed in a powerful president

The “Square Deal” Roosevelt’s Program of Progressive Reform To help American workers. Regulating Business Labor Conditions Conservation Consumer Protection

Theodore Roosevelt: The Square Deal Regulating Business The “Trustbuster” A Trust is a monopoly, a business that is Too big and rips off consumers. Teddy wanted to regulate them or break them Up if they did not comply.

Theodore Roosevelt: The Square Deal Labor Conditions Was willing to fight for workers rights. Investigated coal mines in Pennsylvania when company refused to deal with striking workers Threatened to re-open mines using federal troops This forced management to go to arbitration TR wants a square deal  fair for everyone: management, labor, consumers

Theodore Roosevelt: The Square Deal Conservation “We are prone to think of the resources of this country as inexhaustible; this is not so.” Protected nations environment and wilderness Purchased parkland, forests, monuments and wildlife refuges Triples the amount of public land

Theodore Roosevelt: The Square Deal Consumer Protection Upon reading Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle, TR orders investigations TR supports legislation to ensure purity of food & drugs Pure Food and Drug Act (1906) Meat Inspection Act (1906)

Meat Inspection Act Of 1906 --Signed by TR in 1906 after Reading “The Jungle” --Created the USDA to regulate the Conditions in the meat industry and Carry out inspections of packing Facilities.

In this class…. We are in our Assigned seats When the bell Rings, with our Phones put AWAY, Or we go get a Hero pass.

YOU MUST: Get a Notebook! Don’t wait, it WILL Affect your grade!

First Quiz Friday!

Key Terms/Events William Howard Taft Election of 1912 Woodrow Wilson Progressive Income Tax Federal Reserve A Shadow on the Horizon

William Howard Taft Hand picked successor of TR (Teddy kept GW’s precedent of two-terms)

William Howard Taft: Reforms A Strong Progressive on some things Contrary to popular belief, busts more trusts than TR Supported eight-hour workday and mine safety legislation Sixteenth Amendment  federal income tax Seventeenth Amendment  direct election of senators

William Howard Taft: Reforms

William Howard Taft: Problems Not a great politician like TR Wanted to lower tariffs, while Congress raised them Progressives felt he backed down on this by not vetoing a tariff raising bill Republican Party spilt over protecting American business, while combating trusts

Election of 1912 Election of 1912 TR upset that Taft allows business men to buy public land in Alaska Decides to run against Taft as a member of “Bull Moose Party”

Election of 1912 Best showing of a third party candidate

Woodrow Wilson Republicans split vote and democrat Woodrow Wilson wins presidency A Progressive, but a Democrat Very Racist, Re-segregated Wash D.C. Governor of New Jersey

Woodrow Wilson: Financial Reforms provides for graduated income tax/progressive tax Creates Federal Trade Commission to investigate businesses Federal Reserve System National Banking System (12 banks) Income level Tax rate up to $20,000 1% $20,000 - $50,000 2% $50,000 - $75,000 3% $75,000 - $100,000 4% $100,000 - $250,000 5% $250,000 - $500,000 6% over $500,000 7%

Woodrow Wilson

A Storm on the Horizon!!! Bye-Bye Progressives End of the Progressive Era World War I causes US to focus on war effort and not social change A Storm on the Horizon!!!