1. Progressive Era Wilson and the New Freedom
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2. Election Results
By 1912, 100,000 fewer people had voted for Wilson than had voted for Bryan in 1908.

3. Election Results

4. An Actual 1912 Ballot

5. “Up Against the Hurdles”

6. “As Big As a Balloon”
Tariff Reform

7. Woman Suffrage Before 1920

8. Lynching & the Race Issue

9. “Songs of the Sunny South”

10. The GOP:
An Extinct Animal?

11. Woodrow Wilson’s ‘New Freedom’
‘The New Freedom’:
Lower tariff:
Underwood Tariff (1913)
Regulation of big business:
Clayton Anti–Trust Act (1914)
Federal Trade Commission Act (1914)
Banking Reform:
The Federal Reserve Act (1913)
Child Labor Laws:
Keating-Owen Act (1916)

12. Wilson revived the tradition of giving the State of the Union Address in person in 1913 (below).
Wilson called a special session of Congress on April 8, 1913 to work on a new tariff law (above).

14. ‘Priming the Pump’

15. Women in the Progressive Movement
Jane Adams:
settlement house movement, Women’s Peace Party (1915), Anti-Imperialist League.
Jeannette Rankin:
Women’s suffrage, National Consumers League, first female member of U.S. Congress (1916)
Florence Kelley:
NAACP co-founder, National Consumers League, Socialist Movement.
Labor leaders:
Mary Harris Jones, Mary Kenney O’Sullivan, & Rose Schniederman.
Birth Control:
Margaret Sanger: birth control clinic in NYC (1914), What Every Girl Should Know (1916)

17. Women’s Suffrage: 1st Gen: Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
2nd Gen: Alice Paul and Carrie Chapman Catt
National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) (1890)
Bradwell v. Illinois (1873)
WWI: Women on the Homefront
August 26, 1918: Congress passes 19th Amendment

20. The Anti-lynching Campaign
Ida B. Wells:
Co-founder of NAACP
African–American reporter from TN
1,100 Lynching Deaths ( )
Civil Rights & anti-lynching author

21. Wilson: Not a Friend of Civil Rights
Segregated federal government.
Played D.W. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation White House.

23. Civil Rights & The Supreme Court
, the following ruled unconstitutional:
“Grandfather Clause”
Segregated housing law
African Americans & jury duty
African Americans & running in party primaries.

24. Wilson’s Early Foreign Policy
Mexican Revolution (1914)
Pancho Villa Expedition (1916)
“Moral Diplomacy”:
Haiti (1916)
Dominican Republic (1916)
Cuba (1917)
Panama (1918)

25. Progressives: Changing the Role of the Federal Government
"A great democracy must be progressive…or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy."  
-- T. Roosevelt
Consumer protections.
Pro-democratic, Populist reforms.
Protects nation’s resources & wealth.
Creates protections for workers.

26. PROGRESSIVISM Suffragettes Civi l Rights Muckrackers Temperance Labor
Unions
Popul
ists
Goo
Goos
M i d c l a s s W o m e n 26

27. The “Culture Wars”: The Pendulum of Right v. Left
Christian Evangelical Movement
2nd Great Awakening
Social Gospel
1920s Revivalism
1950s Revivalism
CONSERVATIVE
REVOLUTION
CIVI L WAR
Antebellum Reforms [1810s-1850s]
Populism [1870s-1890s]
Progressivism [1890s-1920]
New Deal [1930s-1940s]
Great Society & 1960s Social Movements 27

28. FREE RESPONSE ESSAYS
Compare and contrast Woodrow Wilson’s New Freedom approach to regulation with Theodore Roosevelt’s New Nationalism approach.
“The Progressive Movement resulted in a series of lasting reforms and influenced U.S. government for much of the 20th century.” Assess the contributions of THREE of the following to the Progressive movement:
Middle class
Muckrakers
Philosophy of pragmatism
Scientific management
Presidential Leadership

29. FREE RESPONSE ESSAYS
Progressives believed that greater democracy was the key to solving many of society’s problems. Identify THREE problems that Progressives addressed, and for each, describe a democratic reform that was designed to deal with the problem.
“Because Progressives chiefly represented the interests and values of the middle class, they totally neglected the interests of the working class.”
- Assess the validity of this statement