1. AIM: How did the Progressive Presidents change America’s social ideology permanently?
Theodore Roosevelt William Howard Taft Woodrow Wilson
Social Ideology: a set of moral principles and beliefs in society
-who should care for the people
-who should help people
-what rules people should follow

2. Why do Progressives want to change America’s social ideology?

3. Social Ideology Social morals: Drinking Unsanitary foods
What moral, political, social, and economic problems need to be fixed? (Rules/laws that need to be made)
Social morals: Drinking
Gov’t intervention: end big businesses (trusts)
political corruption (big bosses)
Discrimination/Inequality (women & African-Americans)
Unsanitary foods
Unfair working conditions/child labor

4. Temperance Movement End sale of alcohol Evil, “corrupts society”
Carrie Nation & her hatchet

5. TR: The “Bull Moose” Square Deal: more gov’t intervention
Creates “Bull Moose” party: use media to pressure Congress to pass laws
“Friends, I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible. I don’t know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot; but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose.”

6. “Weak” William Howard Taft
Kept some Progressive ideas- busted 90 trusts
Businesses unhappy & Progressives want more
Couldn’t keep anyone happy.

7. Election of 1912 Party divided & Taft’s policies anger Roosevelt
Roosevelt runs for “Bull Moose” party
Taft runs for Republican party
Woodrow Wilson runs for Democrats wins!

8. Wilson’s “New Freedom”
Attacked Trusts and high tariffs
Help farmers and small business

9. “Reading like a Historian”
How did the Progressive Presidents change America’s social ideology permanently?
“Reading like a Historian”
ANNOTATE!
Society
Business
Government

10. 1916…2016 Have we changed?
Has America’s social ideology changed since the Progressive Era?
Do you think the government should play a larger role in people’s lives?”