HOT ROC Read 17.5 and use the information in there for your historical applications as you add progressive and suffrage to your glossary. Reminders: Essay due on block day. Paper copy due in class, digital copy due to www.turnitin.com Vocab Quiz Friday Test review on Friday at lunch Test on Monday October 10th

POV Activity: Confronting Racism in the Progressive Era How should issues of race and racism be addressed in American society? Read and respond to DuBois and Washington excerpts from pgs 228 & 229. Which perspective do you agree most with and why? Which is the liberal point of view and which is the radical point of view?

Categorizing practice Explain the different responses people had to the problems at the end of the 19th Century. Sort these people or events into Reactionary, Conservative, Liberal or Radical: Populists Progressives Social Gospel Movement Unions strikes voting restriction laws Nativists monopolies Social Darwinism Political machines Chinese Exclusion Act Sort these people or events into a Big Government or Big Business solution to the problem. Tenement houses Political Machines Nat’l Child Labor Committee Laissez-faire policies Workers’ Compensation Vertical Integration Robber Barons inspectors of garbage collection

The Progressive Presidents

Directions Make a large Venn diagram on a whole sheet of paper. Use 18.2, 18.3, 18.4 (p.232-239) to find out what Progressive reforms each of the following Presidents did and what similarities/differences the Presidents had between each other. Think of: Political reforms Economic reforms Social reforms At the end, use the information to write a thesis sentence response that includes prompt, organizational categories and position.

Use 18.2, 18.3, 18.4 (p.232-239) to find out what Progressive reforms each of the following Presidents did. Roosevelt Taft Wilson Political reforms Economic reforms Social reforms

Thesis statement Prompt: Compare and contrast the progressive reforms of Presidents Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson.

Wrap Up: The Election of 1912 *Add this information to your venn diagram

Candidates Roosevelt: Taft: Wilson Republican President 1901-1908 Wanted Republican nomination, failed to get it, created Progressive “Bull Moose” party Taft: Incumbent Republican President 1908-1912 Wilson Democrat

And…Eugene Debs- Socialist

Wilson Roosevelt Debs Taft Modern Example: Wilson Roosevelt Debs Taft

Results

Answer Key Teddy Roosevelt 1901-1908 William Taft 1908-1912   Teddy Roosevelt 1901-1908 William Taft 1908-1912 Woodrow Wilson 1912-1921 Similarities Political Reforms Square Deal- big business reform Wanted to limit the power of big corporations Lawsuits against trusts New Freedom: limited the power of trusts Clayton antitrust act- limit trusts even more, protected labor unions 19th Amendment- Suffrage Roosevelt supported Taft in the 1908 election. All presidents wanted to reform big business Roosevelt and Wilson sympathetic to women’s right to vote Economic Reforms Sherman Anti Trust Act Hepburn Act- The Fed. Gov. could set railroad rates Arbitration for steel workers Low tariff platform in his campaign- however in 1909 he raised tariffs- upset Progressives Tariff Reform Created the Federal Trade Commission Federal Reserve (The Fed) 16th Amendment- income tax 17th Amendment- direct election Taft and Wilson wanted to reform the banking system Social Reforms Meat Inspection Act, Pure Food and Drug Act (FDA) US Forest Service- set aside land for national forests Added land to national forests, Children’s Bureau National wildlife refuge Keating-Owen Child Labor Act National Park Service 18th Amendment- Prohibition All three did not worry about racial tensions in the US. Taft and Wilson set up 8 hour workdays

New Vocab Election

Putting it all together Notes Checklist While putting together the checklist, you will watch a video about the turn of the century. The Century: Seeds of Change Part 1: Start at 6:13 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEcpJQxtswA Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IepTBls1uk&feature=related Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dae7QI6gIsA&feature=related