1. PROGRESSIVES IN CONTROL OF GOVERNMENT!
Teddy Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson

2. Teddy Roosevelt: The First Modern President
Teddy “takes the veil”
Early career
Progressive Governor of New York
Inherits the Presidency in 1900
Elected President in 1904
Progressive Republican Platform
Square Deal
Government Regulation of Corporations: Meat Inspection Act, Hepburn/Elkins Acts, Pure Food and Drug Act
Anthracite Coal Strike
Dept. of Commerce and Labor
Trust Busting: JP Morgan and Northern Securities
Conservation: Newlands Reclamation Act, Public Parks
Panic of 1907
Over extension of credit (gee, sounds like today), over production, mismanagement
Deal with JP Morgan and cronies
Need for new central banking system?

3. TR’s Protégé: William Howard Taft, 1908-1912
An even bigger Trust Buster
No distinction btw “good” or “bad” trusts
Rule of Reason
JP Morgan
Bureau of Mines
Conservation of resources
Mann-Elkins
Telegraph, telephone, cable under ICC
Postal Savings Bank System
Public banking/savings system
Payne-Aldrich Tariff, 1909
High Protective Tariff, 37%
Ballinger-Pinchot Controversy
Dept of Interior vs. Forestry
Taft-Roosevelt Split, 1912

4. Woodrow Wilson squeaks in…1912
New Freedom Program, Democrats
Progressive Republicans and Socialists
Wilson’s early career
First President from the seceded states!
Attacks the “Triple Wall of Privilege”
Underwood Tariff Act, 1913
Addressed Congress for 29%
16th Amendment
Federal Reserve Act, 1913
Pujo Committee findings
15 branches
Federal Trade Commission Act, 1914
Clayton Anti-Trust Act
“cease and desist” orders

5. More Progressive Reforms under Wilson, 1912-1920
Louis Brandeis
Supreme Court
Federal Highway Act
Rural areas
Workingmen’s Compensation Act
Civil service employees
Child Labor Act
Interstate commerce
Adamson Act
8 hours, interstate commerce
Federal Farm Act
Low interest loans for farmers
Smith-Levee Act
State colleges

6. The Supreme Court during the Progressive Era – still conservative
Lochner v. New York
10 hours for bakers…NOT
Adkins v. Children’s Hospital
No minimum wage for women
Schenck v. US
Oliver Wendell Holmes, “clear and present” danger

7. Temperance and Woman’s Suffrage
18th Amendment
Volstead Act
Bigger federal government
19th Amendment
Split in women’s movement
Radicals vs. Moderates
National American Woman Suffrage Assoc. (Catt)
Downplayed as their “right”, less confrontational
Alice Paul and the Congressional Union
Congressional Union: Hunger strikes and protests
Jeannette Rankin

8. African-Americans and the Progressive Era
Demographic movement to the North
Result of The Great War
Chicago Race Riots
Ida B. Wells
Anti Lynching Movement
NAACP
WEB DuBois
Niagara Movement, “talented tenth”
Woodrow Wilson
Birth of a Nation, like writing history with “lightening!”
Booker T. Washington
Tuskegee Institute