1. William Howard Taft

2. Progressivism under Taft
Promised to follow progressive lead of TR
TR had placed Gifford Pinchot, a strong conservationist, over the US Forest Service
Taft placed Ballinger, a man that supported business, over the Department of Interior.
Ballinger allowed a businesses to take possession of coal rich land in Alaska that was set aside as public lands
Pinchot complained publicly about Ballinger and Taft fired Pinchot

3. Taft a failure as a Progressive President
Roosevelt returned from Africa and was furious about the job Taft was doing
Taft was not excited about continuing with another term in the Presidency

4. Election of 1912
Roosevelt sought the nomination from the Republican party but did not get it
The Progressive (Bull Moose) Party created; Roosevelt presidential candidate
Supported: women’s suffrage, child labor ban, worker’s compensation, and direct election of senators

5. Wilson: 42% Popular Vote T. Roosevelt 27% Popular Vote
Taft: % Popular Vote Debs % Popular Vote

6. Woodrow Wilson-1912 President of Princeton University; religious man
Underwood Tariff -removed high tariffs
To make up for lost income to the country- passed the 16th amendment for collecting federal income tax
Clayton Anti Trust Act made Sherman Anti Trust stronger by protecting unions
Created the Federal Trade Commission to watch businesses to make sure they were behaving and not attempting to become powerful monopolies
Federal Reserve System to control cash flow and help stop economic panic

7. WILSON HAS BIG PLANS
Progressive “New Freedom” platform

8. WILSON’S FAULTS Did not support Civil Rights
Allowed bathrooms to be segregated again at the White House
Did not support Women’s Suffrage

9. Section 4
Abigail Adams wrotes to her husband, John, who was attending the Continental Congress in Philadelphia, asking that he and the other men--who were at work on the Declaration of Independence--"Remember the Ladies." John responds with humor. The Declaration's wording specifies that "all men are created equal."

10. The Women Get Organized
1st organization of women: Seneca Falls New York
Lucretia Mott & Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Susan B. Anthony will join the movement
Susan B. Anthony argued that the 14th amendment gave women the right to vote

11. 14th Amendment Amendment XIV
Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. 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.

12. Susan B. Anthony
In the 1800s, women in the United States had few legal rights and did not have the right to vote. Susan B. Anthony was arrested for casting an illegal vote in the presidential election of She was tried and then fined $100 but refused to pay.

13. 3 ways to possibly acquire the vote
14th amendment
Each state pass a law allowing for women’s suffrage
A Constitutional Amendment so that every state would then have to recognize the amendment to the “Law of the Land”

14. NAWSA: National American Women’s Suffrage Association
NAWSA continued to fight a state by state campaign and push for an amendment to the Constitution along with the Congressional Union

15. Congressional Union
Lucy Burns and Alice Paul tried new tactics in their fight for suffrage
They burned speeches Wilson had made
Picketed the White House
Were arrested and started hunger strikes in jail
ALICE PAUL

16. 19TH AMENDMENT WAS PASSED IN 1920