1. Chapter 10 PROGRESSIVE POLITICIANS
The American Nation In the Modern Era
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Chapter 10 PROGRESSIVE POLITICIANS
Section 1: Reforming Government
Section 2: Roosevelt and the Square Deal
Section 3: Reform Under Taft
Section 4: Wilson’s “New Freedom”
CHAPTER 10--PROGRESSIVE POLITICIANS

2. Objectives: Section 4: Wilson’s “New Freedom”
How did President Wilson’s proposals affect big business and U.S. citizens?
How did Wilson attempt to help farmers and laborers, and how successful were his efforts?
How did American women gain the right to vote?

3. Tariff reform Section 4: Wilson’s “New Freedom” helped farmers
cost revenue, but this was made up income tax

4. Banking reform Section 4: Wilson’s “New Freedom”
created “bankers’ banks”
stabilized the banking system
helped small farmers gain access to lower interest rates

5. General business reform
Section 4: Wilson’s “New Freedom”
General business reform
extended the 1890 Sherman Antitrust Act
helped the government regulate monopolies

6. Wilson and farmers and laborers
Section 4: Wilson’s “New Freedom”
Wilson and farmers and laborers
The Federal Farm Loan Act provided low-interest loans to farmers.
The Adamson Act reduced the workday for railroad workers and averted a strike.
The Keating-Owen Child Labor Act tried to reduce child labor but was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.

7. Suffrage for women Section 4: Wilson’s “New Freedom”
Women pressed for a constitutional amendment.
Women’s groups pressured appropriate senators, and campaigned for the defeat of those who voted against suffrage.
Women gained the right to vote with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment.