1. HOT ROC
Read 17.5 and use the information in there for your historical applications as you add progressive and suffrage to your glossary.
Reminders:
Essay due on block day. Paper copy due in class, digital copy due to
Vocab Quiz Friday
Test review on Friday at lunch
Test on Monday October 10th

2. POV Activity: Confronting Racism in the Progressive Era
How should issues of race and racism be addressed in American society?
Read and respond to DuBois and Washington excerpts from pgs 228 & 229.
Which perspective do you agree most with and why?
Which is the liberal point of view and which is the radical point of view?

3. Categorizing practice
Explain the different responses people had to the problems at the end of the 19th Century.
Sort these people or events into Reactionary, Conservative, Liberal or Radical:
Populists Progressives Social Gospel Movement
Unions strikes voting restriction laws
Nativists monopolies Social Darwinism
Political machines Chinese Exclusion Act
Sort these people or events into a Big Government or Big Business solution to the problem.
Tenement houses Political Machines Nat’l Child Labor Committee
Laissez-faire policies Workers’ Compensation Vertical Integration
Robber Barons inspectors of garbage collection

4. The Progressive Presidents

5. Directions Make a large Venn diagram on a whole sheet of paper.
Use 18.2, 18.3, 18.4 (p ) to find out what Progressive reforms each of the following Presidents did and what similarities/differences the Presidents had between each other.
Think of:
Political reforms
Economic reforms
Social reforms
At the end, use the information to write a thesis sentence response that includes prompt, organizational categories and position.

6. Use 18.2, 18.3, 18.4 (p ) to find out what Progressive reforms each of the following Presidents did.
Roosevelt
Taft
Wilson
Political reforms
Economic reforms
Social reforms

7. Thesis statement
Prompt: Compare and contrast the progressive reforms of Presidents Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson.

8. Wrap Up: The Election of 1912
*Add this information to your venn diagram

9. Candidates Roosevelt: Taft: Wilson Republican President 1901-1908
Wanted Republican nomination, failed to get it, created Progressive “Bull Moose” party
Taft:
Incumbent
Republican President
Wilson
Democrat

10. And…Eugene Debs- Socialist

11. Wilson Roosevelt Debs Taft
Modern Example:
Wilson
Roosevelt
Debs
Taft

12. Results

13. Answer Key Teddy Roosevelt 1901-1908 William Taft 1908-1912
Teddy Roosevelt
William Taft
Woodrow Wilson
Similarities
Political Reforms
Square Deal- big business reform
Wanted to limit the power of big corporations
Lawsuits against trusts
New Freedom: limited the power of trusts
Clayton antitrust act- limit trusts even more, protected labor unions
19th Amendment- Suffrage
Roosevelt supported Taft in the 1908 election.
All presidents wanted to reform big business
Roosevelt and Wilson sympathetic to women’s right to vote
Economic Reforms
Sherman Anti Trust Act
Hepburn Act- The Fed. Gov. could set railroad rates
Arbitration for steel workers
Low tariff platform in his campaign- however in 1909 he raised tariffs- upset Progressives
Tariff Reform
Created the Federal Trade Commission
Federal Reserve (The Fed)
16th Amendment- income tax
17th Amendment- direct election
Taft and Wilson wanted to reform the banking system
Social Reforms
Meat Inspection Act, Pure Food and Drug Act (FDA)
US Forest Service- set aside land for national forests
Added land to national forests,
Children’s Bureau
National wildlife refuge
Keating-Owen Child Labor Act
National Park Service
18th Amendment- Prohibition
All three did not worry about racial tensions in the US.
Taft and Wilson set up 8 hour workdays

14. New Vocab
Election

15. Putting it all together
Notes Checklist
While putting together the checklist, you will watch a video about the turn of the century.
The Century: Seeds of Change
Part 1: Start at 6:13
Part 2:
Part 3: