1. 1912 Platform (name and general description
Theodore Roosevelt Woodrow Wilson
Political Party
 Republican turned Progressive (Bull Moose) Party
 Democratic Party
1912 Platform (name and general description
 New Nationalism
Protect workers, ensure public health, regulate business
“Return to Progressive Ideals”
 New Freedom
Tariff reduction
Banking reform
Stronger antitrust legislation
Triple wall of privilege “banks/tariffs/trusts
Examples of corporate
regulation / anti-trust efforts
  1903 Elkins Act—RR’s will be fined if they provide special rebates to favored shippers
1906 Hepburn Act—regulated RR rate & set maximums
1904—Breaking up of Northern Securities Trust
 1913 Underwood Tariff Act—lowest level in 50 years
1914 Clayton Antitrust Act—strengthened Sherman Antitrust Act, legalized strikes, boycotts, picketing prohibited buying stock of competing companies
1914 created Federal Trade

2. Examples of efforts on behalf of labor / ordinary Americans
Theodore Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
Examples of efforts on behalf of labor / ordinary Americans
 1902 United Mineworkers Strike in intervention on laborers behalf
Square Deal
1905 Antiquities Act –established Forest Service and National Monuments
 Poor civil rights record
Segregated the Federal Government
Reform efforts (most significant and/or noteworthy
 1906 Meat Inspection Act
1906 Pure Food and Drug Act
1902 Newlands Reclamation Act –Federal govt distributes water in SW
 16th Amendment –graduated income tax (1913)
Fed. Reserve Act—created Fed. Reserve from which banks can borrow to prevent collapse
3 tiered system—Fed. Reserve Bank, 12 Fed. Reserve Banks, private banks