1. Progressive Presidents

2. Review Who are the Presidents of the Progressive Era?
What were some of TR’s accomplishments during his time in office?
Do you think the next presidents were successful like TR?

3. Anti Trust Act Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 By 1909, 42 antitrust act
Keep big business in check
By 1909, 42 antitrust act
Standard Oil
Trust Buster

4. Taft What was Taft’s foreign policy plan? Taft was hand picked by TR
Won easily
Republican
Promised to continue to follow progressive idea
Antitrust and other gov’t reform

5. Trouble for Taft Didn’t have TR’s personality
Gave in to the “old guard”
Didn’t lower tariffs
Progressives and Republicans
Did not like Taft

8. Ballinger-Pinchot Affair
More problems
Conservationists
Secretary of the Interior- Ballinger
Gave away Alaskan public land
Forrest Service Director-Pinchot
Protested the selling
Not guilty

9. New Nationalism Midterm election 1910 TR Republicans lost seats
Progressive
Republicans and Democrats ruled the Senate TR
Stronger working conditions
Income and inheritance taxes
NEW NATIONALISM

10. How do you think Taft did as the President?
Did alright
Reserved more land
Antitrust suits
16th and 17th Amendment
Interstate Commerce Commission
Never gained support of his party

11. Election of 1912 TR and Taft wanted the Republican nomination
Taft won
Progressives created their own party
Bull Moose Party

13. Bull Moose Party “I feel fit as a moose” Platform for the party
Lower tariffs
More regulation on businesses
End child labor
Women’s suffrage
Very popular

14. Election Wilson ran on reform New Freedom 42% of votes
Blamed big business and government
New Freedom
Enforce antitrust without hurting economic competition
42% of votes
Split Republican party helped

17. Compare the Elections Wilson- 42% TR- 27% Taft-23% Debs-6% Obama- 53%
McCain-46%
Nader-.56%
Barr-.40%
Election of 1912
Election of 2008

18. Present Day Call for a 3rd Party

19. Wilson’s Policies Known as a reformer Clayton Antitrust Act
Strengthen the Sherman Act of 1890
Allowed the gov’t to regulate business
Created the Federal Trade Commission
Fair trade laws

20. The Federal Reserve System
Reorganized the federal banking system
Open you books to page 299
With a partner 1 person do 1 and 2
The other 3 and 4
Put the characteristics of the Federal Reserve in your own words

21. Federal Reserve Created regional federal banks
Store capital and cash
Supervised by a board selected by the pres.
Allow to borrow money-short term
Created currency
Expand or contract the circulation of money

22. Other Accomplishments and Failures of Wilson
Created Farm Loan Bank
Allowed farmers to get loans
Selecting Louis Brandeis to the Supreme Court
Failures
Cabinet members extended Jim Crow practice
Opposed an amendment on women’s suffrage
No problem
Won easily in 1912

23. Limits of Progressivism
Different views
Wanted to fix problems in cities
Didn’t help farmers, nonunion workers
Limit immigration
Look overseas to help out

24. African Americans and Progressivism
Only a small amount benefited
Creation of the NAACP
Issues in the South
Did not want to lose votes

25. Women’s Suffrage

26. Women’s Suffrage 1848 Susan B. Anthony Seneca Falls, NY
Against slavery
Demanded women be apart of the 14th and 15th Amendments
Civil Disobedience: Nonviolent refusal of a law

27. National American Woman Suffrage Association
NAWSA- Created by Anthony, Lucy Stone
By 1900
Women could own, sell, will property
Demand to vote went up
Became more active
Why do you think people would oppose women’s suffrage?

28. Strategies for Suffrage
Its 1910, how would you try to earn the right to vote?
1- push for an amendment
¾ of the states needed to ratify
States allow voting
Each state would pass its own laws

29. Different Ideas NAWSA State Legislation Congressional Union (CU)
Peaceful approach
Protest but peaceful
State Legislation
Plan to have each state pass laws
Congressional Union (CU)
Aggressive approach
Militant protest
Push for an amendment

30. The End of Suffrage WWI Prohibition However
Women took on jobs that men had
Prohibition
Lost a reason to fight suffrage
However
August 24, th Amendment was passed
Last major reform of the Progressive Era