1. Put Phones Away!
Electronics=
Full Day ISAP!!!

2. YOU MUST: Bring your Notebook And Take all notes! It WILL
Affect your grade!

3. Reminder: NO Hall Passes At Western HS. Use your
Time wisely between classes.

4. Presidents: Roosevelt,
The Progressive
Presidents: Roosevelt,
Taft, and Wilson

5. Key Terms/Events Progressivism/Progressive Presidents Teddy Roosevelt
Square Deal
Trusts
The Jungle
Meat Inspection Act
Pure Food and Drug Act
Conservation
William Howard Taft
Election of 1912
Woodrow Wilson
Progressive Income Tax
Federal Reserve
A Shadow on the Horizon

6. REVIEW: Progressivism: The Desire to solve America’s
Modern social problems
Progressive Presidents
Would use the power
Of the government….

7. Theodore Roosevelt
Teddy R. used the power of the presidency to deal directly with social and economic problems
Believed in a powerful president

8. The “Square Deal” Roosevelt’s Program of Progressive
Reform To help American workers.
Regulating Business
Labor Conditions
Conservation
Consumer Protection

9. Theodore Roosevelt: The Square Deal
Regulating Business
The “Trustbuster”
A Trust is a monopoly, a business that is
Too big and rips off consumers.
Teddy wanted to regulate them or break them
Up if they did not comply.

12. Theodore Roosevelt: The Square Deal
Labor Conditions
Was willing to fight for workers rights.
Investigated coal mines in Pennsylvania when company refused to deal with striking workers
Threatened to re-open mines using federal troops
This forced management to go to arbitration
TR wants a square deal  fair for everyone: management, labor, consumers

13. Theodore Roosevelt: The Square Deal
Conservation
“We are prone to think of the resources of this country as inexhaustible; this is not so.”
Protected nations environment and wilderness
Purchased parkland, forests, monuments and wildlife refuges
Triples the amount of public land

16. Theodore Roosevelt: The Square Deal
Consumer Protection
Upon reading Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle, TR orders investigations
TR supports legislation to ensure purity of food & drugs
Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)
Meat Inspection Act (1906)

22. Meat Inspection Act Of 1906 --Signed by TR in 1906 after
Reading “The Jungle”
--Created the USDA to regulate the
Conditions in the meat industry and
Carry out inspections of packing
Facilities.

24. In this class…. We are in our Assigned seats When the bell
Rings, with our
Phones put AWAY,
Or we go get a
Hero pass.

25. YOU MUST:
Get a Notebook!
Don’t wait, it WILL
Affect your grade!

26. First
Quiz
Friday!

27. Key Terms/Events William Howard Taft Election of 1912 Woodrow Wilson
Progressive Income Tax
Federal Reserve
A Shadow on the Horizon

28. William Howard Taft
Hand picked successor of TR (Teddy kept GW’s precedent of two-terms)

29. William Howard Taft: Reforms
A Strong Progressive on some things
Contrary to popular belief, busts more trusts than TR
Supported eight-hour workday and mine safety legislation
Sixteenth Amendment  federal income tax
Seventeenth Amendment  direct election of senators

30. William Howard Taft: Reforms

31. William Howard Taft: Problems
Not a great politician like TR
Wanted to lower tariffs, while Congress raised them
Progressives felt he backed down on this by not vetoing a tariff raising bill
Republican Party spilt over protecting American business, while combating trusts

32. Election of 1912 Election of 1912
TR upset that Taft allows business men to buy public land in Alaska
Decides to run against Taft as a member of “Bull Moose Party”

33. Election of 1912
Best showing of a third party candidate

34. Woodrow Wilson
Republicans split vote and democrat Woodrow Wilson wins presidency
A Progressive, but a Democrat
Very Racist,
Re-segregated Wash D.C.
Governor of New
Jersey

35. Woodrow Wilson: Financial Reforms
provides for graduated income tax/progressive tax
Creates Federal Trade Commission to investigate businesses
Federal Reserve System
National Banking System (12 banks)
Income level
Tax rate
up to $20,000 1%
$20,000 - $50,000 2%
$50,000 - $75,000 3%
$75,000 - $100,000 4%
$100,000 - $250,000 5%
$250,000 - $500,000 6%
over $500,000 7%

36. Woodrow Wilson

37. A Storm on the Horizon!!! Bye-Bye Progressives
End of the Progressive Era
World War I causes US to focus on war effort and not social change
A Storm on the
Horizon!!!