1. Progressivism
1890 – 1920 pp

2. Goals of Progressives Protect social welfare
YMCA, Social Gospel, Salvation Army
Promoting moral improvement
WCTU
Creating economic reform
Socialism, muckrakers
Fostering efficiency
Scientific analysis of production

3. Socialism Some of the early Progressives were also socialist.
What is socialism?
Government (the people) control of big business.
All share in the profits.
Has rarely succeeded as economic system

4. Teddy Roosevelt War hero from Sp-Am. War.
As President, he “spoke softly and carried a big stick”.
Sought major reforms like the Three C’s
Control of corporations
Consumer protection
Conservation of natural resources

5. Roosevelt Power Brought the power of the Presidency to a new level.
TR thought that big business
was not necessarily bad.
Broke up the “bad trusts” but kept the good ones.
He wanted the industrialists to know that gov’t was run by him, not them.

6. Square Deal Roosevelt came up with a square deal with the people.
- In his mind, both the people and business win.
1906 – Meat Inspection Act – meat shipped over state lines subject to feds.
Pure Food and Drug Act (1906) – labels had to be correct. It had better be what it said it was.

7. William Howard Taft

8. William Howard Taft Followed in TR’s footsteps.
Wanted to be known as a trust-buster
Didn’t make distinction between good trusts and bad trusts.
In all, he busted up around 90 trusts – double the number of TR.

9. Taft’s Problems He wasn’t TR He didn’t lower tariffs enough
He opened up land that TR had set aside for conservation.
He angered TR

10. Election of 1912

11. Split Ticket Taft- Republican
Teddy- as Progressive candidate or the Bull Moose. (tell speech story)
Woodrow Wilson- Democrat
Republicans split between Taft, TR.
Wilson wins.

12. Dr. Thomas Woodrow Wilson
An educator and the son of a Presbyterian Minister
“Schoolmaster in Politics”
President of Princeton University,
Governor of New Jersey,
Elected president in 1912

13. New Freedoms Wilson was an intellectual.
Had trouble communicating with the common man.
Sought to attack the “Triple Wall of Privilege
Trusts
Banks
Tariffs