1. Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt 1901-1912
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Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt

2. Beginnings of an era Roots of the Progressive movement
Problems exposed
Jacob Riis; How the other half lives
Jane Addams helps lead the way

3. Muckrakers Lincoln Steffens: shame of the cities
Ida Tarbell: the history of Standard Oil
Magazines become major contributor
Lewis Hine photographs
Ray Stannard Baker: Following the Color line
Lincoln Steffens: the shame of the cities

4. New legislation Initiative Referendum Recall
Direct election of Senators
Votes for women
Roots of campaign finance reform
Taxation without representation???

5. Cities and states Galveston, Texas Why 1901 commission?
Robert “Fighting Bob” La Follette
took on lumber and other trusts

6. Progressive court cases
Muller v. Oregon(1908): women in workforce
Lochner v. New York (1905): baker
Law in 1917 for 10 hour factory day
Temperance societies:
Triangle shirtwaist fire

7. TR versus the trusts Promises to protect American public
Mine workers take into own hands: strike
Roosevelt’s reaction
Department of Commerce and Labor
Northern Securities Company
Elkin Act: rebates
The Jungle
Good Trust vs. Bad Trust

8. TR’s era comes to an end
Conservation, Trustbusting, consumers

9. Taft Chosen by Roosevelt Dollar Diplomacy Payne-Aldrich Tariff
Ballinger-Pinchot affair

10. Wilsonian progressivism at home and abroad
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Wilsonian progressivism at home and abroad

11. Republican party splits
Election of 1912
Woodrow Wilson’s new freedom
Bull moose party
Wilson wins easily: fights banks, trusts, and tariffs
Presents argument for lower tariff
Federal reserve Act created

12. Mexico Carranza, Pancho Villa, Huerta John Pershing
Weapons going to Huerta (Germany)
Marines in tampico
Marines in Vera Cruz
Threats abroad

13. Problems elsewhere Sarajevo Serbia claimed by A-Hungary
How does U.S. get involved?
Bankers, weapons dealers
British blockade, German warzone
U-Boats
Lusitania: 1200 people (128 U.S.)
Arabic and Sussex also sunk

14. 1916 election TR wants war Charles Evans Hughes
“he kept us out of war”