1. 14th Amendment
“No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”

2. Progressive Age

3. Elections McKinley assassinated in 1901
Roosevelt becomes President and wins re-election in 1904
Taft wins in 1908 as Roosevelt's successor

4. Elections Initiative Referendum Recall Secret Ballot V
A bill originated by the people not lawmakers
Referendum
Voters vote on initiative
Recall
Remove public officials from elected office by election
Secret Ballot V
Voting in a closed booth secretly
Seventeenth Amendment
Direct election of U.S. Senators

5. Women Organizations/Leaders- Suffrage 19th Amendment
National Association of Colored Women (African American women)
National Women Suffrage Association (Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton)
National American Woman Suffrage Association (Julia Ward Howe, Lucy Stone)
Suffrage
The right to vote
19th Amendment
Granting women the right to vote

6. Roosevelt
“A simple and poor society can exist on the basis of sheer individualism, but a rich and complex industrial society cannot so exist.”
Implying need for strong federal government
Square Deal
Giving back rights to the common people, protecting them from corruption and evil

7. Theodore Roosevelt
First President to own a car, ride in an airplane, dive in a submarine, travel outside U.S. during tenure etc.
War Hero with the Rough Riders
Continued his speech after being shot
“It will take more than that to kill a bull moose”
Bull Moose Party

9. Trusts, Strikes, Railroads (Roosevelt)
Broke up many trusts he deemed hurt the public interest (Sherman Anti-Trust Act)
Pennsylvania coal strike led to shrinking coal reserves
Roosevelt calls leaders to the White House to strike a bargain
New principle of federal intervention
Elkins Act- Forbade rebates and could not change set rates without notifying the public
Hepburn Act- Limited bribery, expanded ICC power to set rates

10. Food and Drugs Meat Inspection Act Pure Food and Drug Act
Strict cleanliness requirements for meatpackers and created a program of federal meat inspection
Pure Food and Drug Act
Halted sale of contaminated foods and medicines and called for truth in labeling
Principle of not being able to lie to the public

11. Conservation Setting aside some land for federal protection
Sold land in the West to fund dam projects
Federal government managing precious water resources

12. Civil Rights
Roosevelt- Supported a few individuals but not the movement
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (W.E.B. DuBois)
Wilson- Opposed anti-lynching legislation, supported segregation

13. Tariffs (Taft)
Payne Aldrich Tariff- Compromise that only slightly lowered tariffs
Angered Progressives

14. Election of 1912 Candidates/Parties Issues Who Won and Why?
Taft (Republican)
Wilson (Democrat)
Roosevelt (Bull-Moose)
Issues
Republican party splits between progressives and old guard
Who Won and Why?
Wilson wins because Republican vote is split

15. Election of 1912

16. Trusts (Wilson) FTC- Federal Trade Commission
Power to investigate possible violations of regulations
Clayton Anti-Trust Act- Strengthened Sherman Act
Prohibited corporations from gaining stock of another company if it would create a monopoly
Legalized strikes
Magna Carta for labor

17. Income Tax and Finance
16th Amendment- Allowed government to collect income tax
Tax on an individuals earnings
Lowered tariff meant they needed to collect revenue from elsewhere
Federal Reserve
Central bank that could adjust the money supply
System of mixed public and private banks

18. Alcoholism/Moral Degredation
Prohibition- banning of alcoholic beverages
Groups/Leaders- Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
Banning alcohol, opening kindergartens, visiting the poor
Carry Nation
18th Amendment- banned consumption or sale of alcohol in the U.S.