1. Progressive Presidents:
Responses to the problems of the
Gilded Age

2. Election of 1912 First major three- party election since 1860
All “progressive”

3. Republicans:
Re-nominate Taft, but he doesn’t campaign

4. Bull Moose Party
TR formed his own party

5. Bull Moose Party Platform: New Nationalism
Supports more federal regulations to prevent corporate abuses

6. Democrats: Woodrow Wilson
Platform: New Freedom
Competition with little intervention
Wins with 43%

7. Domestic Policy:
Credit: Federal Reserve Act, Underwood Tariff, 16th Amt, and the Clayton Anti-Trust Act
Enacted most of TR’s platform!

8. Foreign Policy:
Moral Diplomacy:
Rejected aggressive foreign policy

9. Foreign Policy Problems:
Mexican Revolution
1916- Villa
JJ Pershing invaded to capture Villa- never caught
WWI…