KC 3/3 How did education impact women? What was life like in factories for women compared to men? How did Florence Kelley fight to protect working women? Name 2 suffragettes What was the 19th Amendment?

Teddy, Taft, and the progressive movement

Knights Charge 2/11 What were some issues that the Progressive Movement was aiming to change? What was the Triangle Shirtwaist fire and how did it impact the Progressive Movement? What were some ways that the democratic power was given to the people during this period? What was the 17th and 19th Amendments?

Focusing Points… How Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson were “Progressive” Presidents What was Roosevelt’s “Square Deal” What was Wilson’s “New Freedom” How ere their plans similar and different

Presidents during the Gilded Age (1877-1881)- Rutherford B. Hayes: President that ends Reconstruction with the Compromise of 1877 (1881)- James Garfield: Assassinated (1881-1885) Chester Arthur: Pendleton Civil Service Act (1885-1889) Grover Cleveland (1889-1893) Benjamin Harrison: William Henry Harrison’s grandson (1893-1897) Grover Cleveland: President so nice… he served twice (1897-1901) William McKinley: The guy who beat William Jennings Bryan… again

McKinley’s Assassination

Leon Czolgosz

New President: Theodore Roosevelt

Roosevelt’s Square Deal Greatly expanded the role of the President Plan to enact change was known as the Square Deal Wanted to keep wealthy and powerful form taking advantage of small businesses and the poor

Roosevelt’s Square Deal “When I say I believe in a square deal, I do not mean to give every man the best hand. If good cards do not come to any man, or if they do come, and he has not got the power to play them, that is his affair. All I mean is that there shall be no crookedness in the dealing.” - Theodore Roosevelt, 1905

Roosevelt the “Trustbuster” To regulate business, Roosevelt broke up many “bad” trusts He felt that there was a difference between good and bad trusts He would be known as a “Trustbuster”

Hepburn Act Hepburn Act Ended railroads’ monopoly limited what railroads could charge for shipping goods Set up to regulate railroad industry

Roosevelt’s Square Deal Health and Environment After reading The Jungle, Roosevelt passed 1906; Meat Inspection Act 1906; Pure Food and Drug Act No more contaminated foods/ medicines Truth in labeling

Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle “There would be meat that had tumbled out on the floor, in the dirt and sawdust, where the workers had tramped and spit uncounted billions of consumption germs. There would be meat stored in great piles in rooms; and the water from leaky roofs would drip over it, and thousands of rats would race about on it. It was too dark in these storage places to see well, but a man could run his hand over these piles of meat and sweep off handfuls of the dried dung of rats. These rats were nuisances, and the packers would put poisoned bread out for them; they would die, and then rats, bread, and meat would go into the hoppers together.”

Meat packing plant

Roosevelt’s Square Deal Natural resources TR appointed Gifford Pinchot; U.S. Forest Service Believed in conservation of land, “rational” use of forests

Election of 1908 Republican party splits William Howard Taft (R) – new President! Roosevelt’s right hand man Upset Roosevelt for busting too many trusts Republican party splits 1. Progressives (wanted change) 2. Conservatives (did not want change)

Bull Moose Party Roosevelt grew unhappy with how Taft was running the country In the Election of 1912, Roosevelt ran under the “Bull Moose Party” AKA the Progressive Party Promised to challenge big business

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_5yNiTEfVw

Quick check… Write down three things Roosevelt wanted to change in his Square Deal