1. AGENDA Turn in your survey forms
Lets talk about progressive presidents
Turn in all your late work
Extra credit: questions?

2. PROGRESSIVE PRESIDENTS
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
WILLIAM HOWARD
TAFT
WOODROW
WILSON

3. Who Were the Progressives?
Those who sought political, social, and economic reform
Journalists and writers
The Muckrakers
Intellectuals
Political Reformers
Small Business Owners
Suffragists
Conservationists

4. Women in the Progressive Era
Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton Found the National American Suffrage Association (NAWSA)
Led the fight for women’s suffrage
Aka, the right to vote
Liquor industry and others feared women’s suffrage because of the suffragists’ support for prohibition.

5. Roosevelt’s Presidency
The Square Deal
“bully pulpit” – can influence the news media and shape legislation (laws) from the office of the presidency
Caused many progressive reforms
Roosevelt the “Trust Buster”
Only broke up trusts that he felt hurt the public interest
Used the Sherman Antitrust Act to file 44 antitrust suits

7. Roosevelt’s Presidency
Conservation and Natural Resources
Set aside 148 million acres of forest reserves
NAACP
First president to invite a black man to the White House
But, Progressives focused more on the needs of middle- class whites than African- Americans
John Muir inspired Teddy to
become a conservationist

8. Taft The Unlucky Election of 1908 Taft the Trust Buster
Taft is Roosevelt’s good friend and Secretary of War
Hand picked by Teddy to be his successor
Defeats William Jennings Bryan in a landslide victory
“Vote for Taft this time; you can vote for Bryan any time”
Taft the Trust Buster
Broke up 90 trusts in 4 years
compared to Roosevelt’s 44 trusts in 8 years
Roosevelt decides he doesn’t want to run again

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10. Taft the Unlucky Conservation
Removes 1 million acres of land from reserved list.
Fires Roosevelt’s friend Pinchot

11. The Election of 1912 The Republican Party Splits
Taft and the conservatives vs. Roosevelt and the progressives.
Roosevelt and the Bull Moose Party
“as strong as a bull moose”
Party platform included: direct election of senators, initiative, referendum, recall, women’s suffrage, worker’s comp. etc…
Republican Split Guarantees Democrat Victory
Roosevelt goes off to shoot big game in Africa for a bit, then comes back, and decids he wants to run again

12. The Election of 1912

13. Wilson’s Presidency Wilson the Trust Buster The 16th Amendment
Clayton Antitrust Act – strengthened the Sherman Antitrust Act and protected labor unions
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) – the business police, they enforce the Clayton Antitrust Act
The 16th Amendment
Legalized a graduated federal income tax

14. Wilson’s Presidency Reforming the Banks The End of an Era
The Federal Reserve Act – Establishes the Federal Reserve System.
The End of an Era
The entry of the U.S. into WWI signals the end of the progressive era.

15. PROGRESSIVISM Ended with start of WWI WINS FAILURES
Amendments added to the Constitution:
16th: Income tax
17th: Direct election of Senators
18th: Prohibition
19th: Women get the vote
Improved standard of living! For middle- and lower-class Americans
Racial segregation continues
No anti-lynching legislation
Ended with start of WWI

16. 2 MINUTE BRAIN BREAK BEFORE WE MOVE ON
GET UP. STRETCH. DO SOME SQUATS. PUSHUPS. LUNGES.

17. IT’S TIME FOR WORLD WAR ONE

18. THE UNITED STATES IN THE 1910s
CLOSURE
THE UNITED STATES IN THE 1910s

19. Story problem time