1. Tuesday, October 21 Do-Now Agenda Homework Objective
First, take out your history binders and homework. Leave them on your desk.
Pick up a piece of chalk on the blackboard. Contribute at least 1 item to the “Know” or “Want to know” chart, regarding the 2008 election.
Objective
To analyze / understand the progressive Reforms enacted under William Howard Taft and Woodrow Wilson.
Agenda
Do-Now & Homework Check
K-W-L Election Discussion
Notes on Progressivism under Taft and Wilson
Homework
Read Chapter 18, Section 3 Create a venn diagram comparing the policies of Wilson and Taft (Quiz!!!)
Get to work on your current event due Friday!
Don’t Forget: Quiz Thursday

2. Thursday’s Quiz will cover:
Roosevelt
Taft
Wilson
Women’s Suffrage
Study Chapter 18, Much of Sections 2-4
Then we will finally be moving on from the Progressive Era!!! : )

3. Friday you will need a Current Event – Election 2008
Based on our K-W-L Chart created in class, select an article which addresses one of the “W”s Print or clip your article and staple to your summary / response with your name/date/pd.
Write a detailed summary (one full paragraph or more) and prepare a 1-to-2 minute “lesson” on your topic to share with the class.
In other words: Research the topic! Give us the whole story! Don’t simply look for the shortest article around!!!

4. PROGRESSIVISM Taft’s & Wilson’s Administrations

5. Quickie Roosevelt Review
What were Roosevelt’s motives for attacking the Northern Securities Company?
Was he opposed to all big business?
What supposedly “dead” law did he revive in order to prosecute the trusts?

6. President Taft Hand-picked by TR & wins the 1908 election
- pledges to carry on TR’s Progressive program

7. Taft and Progressivism – Mixed Results
Alienates progressives by not appointing any to cabinet
Payne-Aldrich Tariff:
Ballinger-Pinchot Affair
Ballinger (Secretary of Interior) opposed protection of natural resources in West & sided with businesses
Pinchot (Head of US Forest Service) promoted scientific management of wilderness & designed many of TR’s conservation policies
1909 Ballinger allowed businesses to obtain several acres of Alaskan public lands
Pinchot protests to Congressional committee charging Ballinger with corruption
Taft fires Pinchot angering TR and other progressives

8. Turmoil in the Republican Party
TR returns from African Safari to hear cries of protests & criticisms of Taft
TR campaigns for the Progressives during Midterm Elections in order for them to regain control of the House
By the election of 1912, TR has had it…. Nominated for presidency by the Progressive Party (nickname Bull Moose Party when TR announces he feels “fit as a bull moose!!)

9. Election of 1912 Bull Moose Party – TR Reform platform
Tariff reduction
Women’s suffrage
More regulation of business
Child labor ban
8 hour workday
Direct election of senators
-Ran a tough campaign

10. Who did it?
“Friends, I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible. I don’t know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot; but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose.”
[showed his blood-stained shirt, then continued his speech]

11. Election of 1912 Taft & the Republican Party
Complaints about job threatened to overshadow his presidency
Reserved more public lands
Brought more antitrust suits in 4 years than TR in 7
Supported Children’s Bureau
16 and 17th amendments
Mann-Elkins Act of 1910
Despite all this, he remained at odds with the Republican Progressives

12. Election of 1912 Democratic Party & Wilson’s “New Freedom”
Political background: NJ governor
Ran on reform platform with many of the same reforms as TR
Criticized big business & big government

13. Election of 1912 Four-way Election
Roosevelt: Bull Moose (progressive) Party
Taft: Republican Party
Wilson: Democratic Party
Eugene V. Debs (labor leader): Socialist Party
Republican vote split between Taft and TR
Wilson wins presidential race – only won 42% of popular vote, but won the electoral vote by a landslide

14. President Wilson Believed his duty was to promote major legislation
Underwood Tariff Act (1913)
Signed into law the Federal Income Tax (16th amendment)
Attacked trusts
Clayton Antitrust Act
Federal Trade Commission (1914)

15. President Wilson Federal Reserve System (1913)
Divided country into 12 districts each with a Federal Reserve Bank owned by its member banks
Supervised by a Federal Reserve Board
Supreme Court Nomination –Louis D. Brandeis
the “people’s lawyer”
First Jewish Supreme Court Nominee
Approved by Congress & marks peak of progressivism
Wins second term
Runs on slogan that he had kept the country out of WWI
Barely defeats Republican nominee, Charles Evans Hughes

16. Wilson’s New Freedom plan was an attack on the “triple wall of privilege: the trusts, the tariffs and high finance”
Underwood Tariff of 1913 – eliminated or lowered protective tariffs for big business and created the first income tax law after the passage of the sixteenth amendment allowing for the income tax.
Federal Reserve Act of created 12 Federal Reserve Districts each with a Bank for banks (not individuals) and a Federal Reserve Board to run the banks.
Clayton Anti-trust Act of 1914 Could not prevent buyers from purchasing goods from competitors
Price cutting forbidden as well as some rebates
Unions could not be regarded as illegal combos in restraint of trade under antitrust laws
Legalized unions & their key weapons: strikes, picketing, boycotts
Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914 – set up the Federal Trade Commission as a watch-dog agency to investigate violations of regulatory laws.

17. Limits on Progressivism
Progressives redefined and enlarged role of government
Some supported immigration limits & literacy tests
Little action to pursue social justice reforms
Extended Jim Crow practices; AA ignored
Initially opposed women’s suffrage