1. The Progressive Movement: The Progressive Presidents
US History
Mrs. Lacks

2. Three Progressive Presidents
Theodore Roosevelt (1901 – 1909): Republican
William Howard Taft (1910 – 1912); Republican
Woodrow Wilson (1913 – 1920); Democrat

3. Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider (Spanish American War) Gov of New York
Vice President (President McKinley assassinated)

4. Roosevelt’s Many Hats…

5. Roosevelt’s Many Hats…

6. TR led the Rough Riders in Cuba during the Spanish American War

7. Theodore Roosevelt
Modern Presidency (Greatly expanded the power of the Presidency)
Economic Plan: "Square Deal" program that consisted of 3 parts:
control of the corporations
consumer protection
conservation of natural resources.

8. Theodore Roosevelt The “Trustbuster”
Broke up many monopolies, including Northern Securities (JP Morgan)

9. Theodore Roosevelt Health Reform Meat Inspection Act (1906)
dictated strict cleanliness requirements for meat packers
created program of federal meat inspection (grade a, b, etc)
Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)
halted sale of contaminated foods and medicines
called for truth in labeling

10. TR the Environmentalist
Theodore Roosevelt
TR the Environmentalist
125 million acres of land in federal reserves (more than any other POTUS)
“multiple-use resource management”
sought to combine recreation, sustained-yield logging, watershed protection, and summer stock grazing on the same expanse of federal land

11. THANK YOU PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT!

13. Election of 1908
TR had won re-election in 1904, stepped down after two terms
Hand-selected Taft to be Republican nominee

14. Election of 1908

15. William Howard Taft
From Ohio
Republican
27th POTUS
Later Chief Justice of Supreme Court (dream job)

16. William Howard Taft

17. William Howard Taft Taft & Foreign Policy Taft & Civil Rights
“Dollar Diplomacy”
Give $ not bullets
Taft & Civil Rights
Met with Booker T. Washington to help push his education agenda
Taft the Trustbuster
Busted twice as many monopolies as TR, including Standard Oil in 1911 

18. Taft’s New Tub

19. William Howard Taft TR didn’t like a lot of Taft’s policies
All led to a split in the Republican Party for the Election of 1912

20. Election of 1912
Republican -Taft
Progressive - Roosevelt
Democrat - Wilson
Socialist - Debs

21. Roosevelt, the Bull Moose
"Ladies and gentlemen, I don't know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot; but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose."
Roosevelt was shot in Wisconsin in 1912 by saloonkeeper John Schrank. The bullet hit a thick eye glass case, a 50 page folded copy of the speech he was about to give, and then entered his rib cage.

22. Election of 1912

23. Woodrow Wilson 2nd Democrat to win since Civil War (Cleveland)
From Staunton, VA
28th POTUS