1. The Progressives Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson

2. Teddy Roosevelt

3. Teddy Roosevelt at the Panama Canal

4. Teddy Roosevelt and John Muir in Yosemite

5. Teddy Bear

6. Trustbuster 1904 Northern Securities

7. William Howard Taft William Howard Taft, born in 1857, was a son of a distinguished judge, a graduate of Yale, a news reporter, a lawyer, a professor and a Dean of the University of Cincinnati. He is the only President to also serve as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

8. William H. Taft Republican President 1909-1913

9. Bungled Legacy

10. Presidential Election of 1912

12. Presidential Election Of 1912

13. Eugene V. Debs for president in 1912 Wilson D 435 Taft R 88 T.R. BM 8 Debs Soc. 0 Wilson 6.3 mil Taft3.5 mil T.R. 4.1 mil Debs.9 mil

14. Debs for President 1920 Harding Rep 16 million 404 CoxDem 9 million 127 DebsSocialist.9 million 0

15. What do former Presidents do?

16. Wilson and Taft 1913

18. The Federal Reserve Act of 1913 established the Federal Reserve System as the central banking authority of the U. S. Under the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 and amendments over the years, the Federal Reserve System: (1) Conducts America’s monetary policy. (2) Supervises and regulates banks and protects consumers’ credit rights. (3 )Maintains the stability of America’s financial system. (4) Provides financial services to the U.S. Government, the public, financial institutions, and foreign financial institutions. The Federal Reserve makes loans to commercial banks and is authorized to issue the Federal Reserve notes that make up America’s entire supply of paper money. Overseeing the system, a Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, controls operations of the 12 Federal Reserve Banks, and the thousands of member banks across the U.S.

19. Federal Reserve Districts HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHH

20. Wilson in Versailles, France 1919

21. John D. Rockefeller 1901 Puck magazine

24. The Bosses of the Senate

25. Sherman Anti-trust Act 1890 The last third of the 19th century witnessed the development of business conglomerates or trusts. Many people believed that this new form of business organization stifled competition and led to manipulation of prices. State governments, mostly in the West and South, passed laws to regulate corporate behavior, but the wily trusts simply established themselves in friendly states such as Delaware and New Jersey. The Sherman Antitrust Act, the first federal antitrust law, authorized federal action against any "combination in the form of trusts or otherwise, or conspiracy, in restraint of trade." In the eyes of many Congressmen, the measure would look good to the public, but be difficult to enforce. Lack of specificity in the act's wording led the courts to struggle for years before they could agree on the meanings of "trust", "combinations," and "restraint of trade." In the first 10 years of the law's existence, many more actions were brought against unions than big business. The first meaningful challenge to this legislation came in the failure to successfully prosecute the E.C. Knight case in 1895. 1904

26. Jacob Riis How the Other Half Lives Bandit’s Roost Mulberry Bend

27. Jacob Riis “Five Cents Lodging”

32. Ruins at Triangle Shirtwaist Factory

33. Tragedy at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory 1911

34. Triangle Shirtwaist Victims at Morgue

35. Upton Sinclair The Jungle

36. “Muckrakers”

37. The IWW was founded in Chicago in June 1905 at a convention of two hundred socialists, anarchists, and radical trade unionists from all over the United States who were opposed to the policies of the American Federation of Labor.

38. Suffragettes

39. New York City Suffrage Parade

41. Prohibition 18 th Amendment 1919

42. Prohibition?

43. Carry Nation