1. Progressive Era Presidents: Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson 15.2 and 15.3

2. Learning Target
Identify and differentiate between the progressive policies of Theodore Roosevelt, William Taft, and Woodrow Wilson.

3. Entry Task
Use this process to analyze the following political cartoon:
Look at all of the details of the cartoon (pick it apart)
Put the individual details together and infer (guess) the message of the cartoon

5. Roosevelt’s 3 C’s Corporations: Consumers: Conservation:
Controlling big business – trusts
Consumers:
Creating laws to protect the consumers from unsafe products
Conservation:
Protecting our resources through management

7. Consumer Protection
Meat Inspection Act
Pure Food and Drug Act

8. Conservation Efforts 100 million acres of protected national forests
5 national parks
51 federal wildlife reservations
Crater Lake, OR
Mesa Verde, CO

9. Progress and Limitations
Citizens expected more involvement from the government in solving economic and social problems.
Government failed to address African American reform issues.
1909 – National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
W.E.B. Du Bois

11. William Howard Taft
An even bigger
“trust buster”
than Roosevelt.

12. Taft Hand-picked successor for Theodore Roosevelt
Attacked the “trusts” and increased federal regulations
Broke up U.S. Steel
Increased tariffs
Rejected progressive concerns about environment
Fired Gifford Pinchot

13. Roosevelt vs. Taft

14. Dr. Woodrow Wilson What made it Possible for Such a “proper”
Man to defeat
A “BullMoose”?

16. Wilson’s New Freedom Federal Reserve Act 16th Amendment
Federal Reserve Board
Central banking system
16th Amendment
Income tax

17. Just Your Thoughts…
What would a progressive muckraker try to reform today?
Take a moment to summarize your notes by responding to the learning target…
“Identify and differentiate between the progressive policies of Theodore Roosevelt, William Taft, and Woodrow Wilson.”

18. The Progressive Era
Mind Mapping Lesson

19. What is a Mind Map?

20. How to Create a Mind Map 1. Start in the center (landscape)
2. Use a picture/image for the central idea
3. Add the MAIN branches (use different colors)
4. Add Detailed Branches to the MAIN branches
Make the branches curve and flow
Use pictures/images throughout
Use colors for the different MAIN branches
Try to use a single word for each detailed branch

21. Grading Rubic Must incorporate information for each category
Each category must include a minimum of one graphic/picture
Mind Map must be colored (arms and pictures)
Quality of work will be a part of the final grade
24 points total

22. Mind Mapping The Progressive Era
Create a branch for each of the following:
Progressive Amendments
Theodore Roosevelt
Muckrakers / The Jungle
Temperance Movement / Prohibition
Suffrage for Women
African Americans
Labor
Political