Chapter 10 PROGRESSIVE POLITICIANS The American Nation In the Modern Era 4/21/2017 Chapter 10 PROGRESSIVE POLITICIANS Section 1: Reforming Government Section 2: Roosevelt and the Square Deal Section 3: Reform Under Taft Section 4: Wilson’s “New Freedom” CHAPTER 10--PROGRESSIVE POLITICIANS

Objectives: Section 4: Wilson’s “New Freedom” How did President Wilson’s proposals affect big business and U.S. citizens? How did Wilson attempt to help farmers and laborers, and how successful were his efforts? How did American women gain the right to vote?

Tariff reform Section 4: Wilson’s “New Freedom” helped farmers cost revenue, but this was made up income tax

Banking reform Section 4: Wilson’s “New Freedom” created “bankers’ banks” stabilized the banking system helped small farmers gain access to lower interest rates

General business reform Section 4: Wilson’s “New Freedom” General business reform extended the 1890 Sherman Antitrust Act helped the government regulate monopolies

Wilson and farmers and laborers Section 4: Wilson’s “New Freedom” Wilson and farmers and laborers The Federal Farm Loan Act provided low-interest loans to farmers. The Adamson Act reduced the workday for railroad workers and averted a strike. The Keating-Owen Child Labor Act tried to reduce child labor but was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.

Suffrage for women Section 4: Wilson’s “New Freedom” Women pressed for a constitutional amendment. Women’s groups pressured appropriate senators, and campaigned for the defeat of those who voted against suffrage. Women gained the right to vote with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment.