Transcript TR, Taft and Wilson

TR, Taft and Wilson
The Shift of Progressives
The Square Deal
 Let the watchwords of all our people be the old familiar
watchwords of honesty, decency, fair-dealing, and
commonsense.... We must treat each man on his worth and
merits as a man. We must see that each is given a square
deal, because he is entitled to no more and should receive
no less.... The welfare of each of us is dependent
fundamentally upon the welfare of all of us."
- T.R. New York State Fair, Syracuse, September 7, 1903
Roosevelt’s Crowning Achievements
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Currency Emergency Bill
Regeneration of the Philippines
Prosecution of Criminal Trusts
Strong Navy
Rate Bill per Food Law
Awakening of Civic
Conscience
Panama Canal
Employers Liability Act
Eight Hour workday
Conservation of Natural
Resources
Development of Waterways
Domestic Big
Stick Policy
 Overcapitalization – ending
the practices of owning $200
mil. Worth of stock when
the RR is worth $75 mil.
 Breaking up protected
Monopolies
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Insurance Graft
Oil Trusts
Coal Combine
Anti-Japanese Movement
Swollen Fortunes
T. R. takes
on Northern
Securities
 J.P. Morgan
on the left –
banker
 John D.
Rockefeller on
right – owner
of Standard Oil
Coal Strike of
1902
 T. R. forces local coal
mine owners controlled by
Monopoly interests (J.P.
Morgan)
 U.M.W. accepts
arbitration, owners balk,
T. R. forces both sides to
the table
 U.S. citizens support the
president over the
corporate interests of the
coal mine owners
Panama Canal Moves Forward
 Roosevelt
laying the
groundwork for
the panama
canal
T.R. on
Foreign
Diplomacy
 Monroe
Doctrine with
the added
Roosevelt
Corollary
Expansion of
Government
 The Senate,
controlled by
the interests of
monopolies
shows T.R. that
they hold the
keys to tariff
revision which
would affect the
profits of
monoplies
T.R.
supports
Taft
 Roosevelt
felt that Taft
was going to
take his
policies and
move
forward with
them in the
future
T.R. passing
his policies
off to Taft
 T.R. felt Taft
was the best person to
continue his work
 He felt so
confident that
as soon as he
left office, he
went on a world
wide tour of
Europe and a
safari
throughout Africa
Taft tried to be TR
Taft tried to live up to Roosevelt’s
policies, but went with his own slow,
thoughtful, delayed methods of
response – not popular with
Progressives.
The public cried out against Taft
because he was such a quiet president
compared to TR.
Taft reverses
Roosevelt’s
Policies
Taft softened the blow to
corporations and was seen
as a supporter of big
business more so than a
supporter of US citizen’s
right (labor, unions, etc.)
The election of
1912
TR was Wilson’s best dreams… he
split the Republican vote between TR
and Taft whom the republican party
endorsed.
With two candidates running on the
progressive platform: both Wilson
and Roosevelt were making the same
promises. Taft stuck to traditional
conservative ideals.
TR and Taft split the republican vote,
all democrats voted for Wilson.
Wilson won the election handily and
won over the progressives to the
democratic party.
Democrats
sweep the
1912 election
 In response to the Taft
administration and
control by republicans’
actions in the house and
senate, Wilson gets
elected with the split
vote between Taft and
Roosevelt and has
democrat majorities in
both houses of
Congress.
Wilson runs for
re-election
 Wilson delays his
announcement as
long as possible to
build up suspense for
his run for reelection.
 Such popular
measures as the
Underwood Tariff in
1913, The 16th
Amendment in 1913,
the Federal Reserve
Ban System in 1913
and the FTC in 1914.
Re-election was
successful!
 Staying out of the
war was one of the
biggest reasons and
catch phrases
Wilson used to
determine why he
should continue to
remain President of
the US
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Wilson tries
to navigate
between
intervention
and war
using the
reason of
justice to
refrain from
the war.
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Pressures
from the
sinking of
multiple
American
passenger
and trade
ships,
Wilson
decides to
ask
Congress
to declare
war on
Germany.