Good Morning!!! NVC The Progressive Presidents Women’s Suffrage Essential Question #1: Who were the Progressives Presidents and what did they accomplish? Essential Question #2: Why did it take so long for women to get the right to vote? Homework: TEST NEXT TUES/THURS!
The Progressive Presidents
Use the following lecture notes to fill out the boxes of the graphic organizer! Teddy Roosevelt 1901-1908 William Taft 1908-1912 Woodrow Wilson 1912-1921 Similarities Political Reforms Economic Reforms Social Reforms
Theodore Roosevelt Republican President comes to power in 1901 “The man who holds that every human right is secondary to his profit must now give way to the advocate of human welfare.”--Teddy Political Reforms Square Deal: regulate big business to protect workers and consumers Economic Reforms “Trust Busting” with the Sherman Anti-Trust Act (busts railroads) Social Reforms Pure Food and Drug Act: sets up FDA response to Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle U.S. Forest Service: National Forests!
William Howard Taft Republican President and Teddy’s successor (1908) “The welfare of the farmer and the worker is vital to that of the whole country”—Taft Political Reform Limits power of big business in government Social Reform Adds to national forests Child’s Bureau: investigate child labor Economic Reform Promises to lower tariffs Raises them instead (!!) and angers Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson Democrat president elected 1912 Social Reform “The ear of a leader must ring with the voices of the people”—Woody Social Reform Abolishes Child labor 18th Amendment: Prohibition of Alcohol Economic Reform Federal Reserve System: system to regulate banks 16th Amendment: income tax Political Reform 17th Amendment: direct election of Senators 19th Amendment: WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE!
History of Women’s Suffrage Suffrage: the right to vote Seneca Falls Convention (1848) Elizabeth Cady Stanton Declaration of Sentiments Suffrage Amendment first proposed in 1878 by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton 19th Amendment not passed until 1920
What took so long?! Why did some people oppose Women’s Suffrage?
Women’s Suffrage… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gvu3krcs8ec
Election of 1912 Election of 1912 Taft/Roosevelt split vote William Howard Taft: Republican Theodore Roosevelt: Progressive “Bull Moose” Third Party! Woodrow Wilson: Democrat Eugene Debs: Socialist Taft/Roosevelt split vote Woodrow Wilson wins, goes on to pass Suffrage amendment