1. Good Afternoon!! HOT ROC: Suffrage Opposition
2. The Progressive Presidents
Essential Question: What were the motivations behind the trust-busting policies of the Progressive Presidents?
Homework: Study for Unit 4 Test on FRIDAY!

2. HOT ROC: Suffrage Opposition
According to these documents, why were people opposed to woman suffrage?
Were the reasons for opposing suffrage social, political, or economic?
Are you surprised so many anti-suffragists were actually women themselves?

3. Politics of the Gilded Age
Political Bosses: corrupt politicians that took bribes from businesses in exchange for votes
Social Darwinism: belief that the “fittest” (best) people and corporations would thrive
Government does not intervene to help poor or regulate business
Progressives seek to pass laws to end corruption
17th Amendment: direct election of Senators
Elect politicians that support their cause

4. The Progressive Presidents
Theodore Roosevelt ( )
William Taft ( )
Woodrow Wilson ( )
The Progressive Agenda: taking the fight to Big Business
New worker safety laws
National Parks and Forests to protect the environment
“Trust-busting”: breaking up monopolies and stopping unfair business practices using the Sherman anti-trust Act

5. What were the motivations behind Teddy’s trust-busting?

6. The Roosevelts (Video Clip)
Source: The following clip is from the PBS documentary, The Roosevelts: An Intimate History. Created by the Academy Award-winning American historical documentarian Ken Burns, this seven-part, fourteen hour classical documentary uses archival footage and historian interviews to follow the lives of Theodore, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, and the influence they all had in forming the modern American democratic state.

7. The Men Who Built America (Video Clip)
Source: The following clip is from the History Channel documentary, The Men Who Built America. The four-part series is a docudrama including original images and re-enactments. Broadcast in Fall 2012, the series focused on the contributions made by Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, JP Morgan, Carnegie and Henry Ford as well as other prominent industrialists. The series focuses on how their industrial innovations and business empires revolutionized modern society.