PROGRESSIVE PRESIDENTS

Review

Who are the Presidents of the Progressive Era?

What were some of TR’s accomplishments during his time in office?

Do you think the next presidents were successful like TR?

Anti Trust Act Sherman Antitrust

Act of 1890Keep big business in

check By 1909, 42 antitrust

actStandard Oil

Trust Buster

Taft What was Taft’s

foreign policy plan? Taft was hand

picked by TRWon easily

RepublicanPromised to continue

to follow progressive idea

Antitrust and other gov’t reform

Trouble for Taft Didn’t have TR’s

personality Gave in to the “old

guard” Didn’t lower tariffs Progressives and

Republicans Did not like Taft

Ballinger-Pinchot Affair

More problems Conservationists Secretary of the Interior- Ballinger

Gave away Alaskan public land Forrest Service Director-Pinchot

Protested the selling Not guilty

New Nationalism

Midterm election 1910Republicans lost seatsProgressive

○ Republicans and Democrats ruled the Senate

TRStronger working conditionsIncome and inheritance taxesNEW NATIONALISM

How do you think Taft did as the President? Did alright

Reserved more land Antitrust suits

16th and 17th Amendment

Interstate Commerce Commission

Never gained support of his party

Election of 1912 TR and Taft wanted

the Republican nomination Taft won

Progressives created their own partyBull Moose Party

Bull Moose Party

“I feel fit as a moose” Platform for the party

Lower tariffsMore regulation on businesses End child laborWomen’s suffrage

Very popular

Election Wilson ran on

reformBlamed big business

and government New Freedom

Enforce antitrust without hurting economic competition

42% of votes Split Republican party

helped

Compare the Elections

Election of 1912 Election of 2008

Wilson- 42% TR- 27% Taft-23% Debs-6%

Obama- 53% McCain-46% Nader-.56% Barr-.40%

Present Day Call for a 3rd Party

Wilson’s Policies

Known as a reformer Clayton Antitrust Act

Strengthen the Sherman Act of 1890Allowed the gov’t to regulate business

Created the Federal Trade CommissionFair trade laws

The Federal Reserve System Federal Reserve System

Reorganized the federal banking system Open you books to page 299

With a partner 1 person do 1 and 2The other 3 and 4Put the characteristics of the Federal

Reserve in your own words

Federal Reserve

1. Created regional federal banks Store capital and cash

2. Supervised by a board selected by the pres.

3. Allow to borrow money-short term

4. Created currency Expand or contract the circulation of money

Other Accomplishments and Failures of Wilson Created Farm Loan Bank

Allowed farmers to get loans Selecting Louis Brandeis to the Supreme

Court Failures

Cabinet members extended Jim Crow practice Opposed an amendment on women’s suffrage

No problemWon easily in 1912

Limits of Progressivism

Different viewsWanted to fix problems in citiesDidn’t help farmers, nonunion workersLimit immigrationLook overseas to help out

African Americans and Progressivism Only a small amount

benefited Creation of the

NAACP Issues in the South

Did not want to lose votes

Women’s Suffrage

Women’s Suffrage

1848Seneca Falls, NY

Susan B. AnthonyAgainst slavery Demanded women be apart of the 14th and

15th AmendmentsCivil Disobedience: Nonviolent refusal of a

law

National American Woman Suffrage Association NAWSA- Created by

Anthony, Lucy Stone By 1900

Women could own, sell, will property

Demand to vote went up

Became more active Why do you think

people would oppose women’s suffrage?

Strategies for Suffrage Its 1910, how would

you try to earn the right to vote?

1- push for an amendment¾ of the states

needed to ratify States allow voting

Each state would pass its own laws

Different Ideas NAWSA

Peaceful approachProtest but peaceful

State Legislation Plan to have each

state pass laws

Congressional Union (CU)Aggressive approachMilitant protest

Push for an amendment

The End of Suffrage

WWIWomen took on jobs that men had

Prohibition Lost a reason to fight suffrage

HoweverAugust 24, 1920-19th Amendment was

passedLast major reform of the Progressive Era