Progressive Presidents
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Who are the Presidents of the
Progressive Era?
What were some of TR’s
accomplishments during his time in
office?
Do you think the next presidents were
successful like TR?
Anti Trust Act
Sherman Antitrust
Act of 1890
Keep big business in
check
By 1909, 42 antitrust
act
Standard Oil
Trust Buster
Taft
What was Taft’s
foreign policy plan?
Taft was hand
picked by TR
Won easily
Republican
Promised to continue
to follow progressive
idea
Antitrust and other
gov’t reform
Trouble for Taft
Didn’t have TR’s
personality
Gave in to the “old
guard”
Didn’t lower tariffs
Progressives and
Republicans
Did not like Taft
Ballinger-Pinchot Affair
More problems
Conservationists
Secretary of the Interior- Ballinger
Gave away Alaskan public land
Forrest Service Director-Pinchot
Protested the selling
Not guilty
New Nationalism
Midterm election 1910
Republicans lost seats
Progressive
○ Republicans and Democrats ruled the Senate
TR
Stronger working conditions
Income and inheritance taxes
NEW NATIONALISM
How do you think Taft did as the
President?
Did alright
Reserved more land
Antitrust suits
16th and 17th
Amendment
Interstate
Commerce
Commission
Never gained
support of his party
Election of 1912
TR and Taft wanted
the Republican
nomination
Taft won
Progressives
created their own
party
Bull Moose Party
Bull Moose Party
“I feel fit as a moose”
Platform for the party
Lower tariffs
More regulation on businesses
End child labor
Women’s suffrage
Very popular
Election
Wilson ran on
reform
Blamed big business
and government
New Freedom
Enforce antitrust
without hurting
economic competition
42% of votes
Split Republican party
helped
Compare the Elections
Wilson- 42%
TR- 27%
Taft-23%
Debs-6%
Obama- 53%
McCain-46%
Nader-.56%
Barr-.40%
Election of 1912
Election of 2008
Present Day Call for a 3rd Party
Wilson’s Policies
Known as a reformer
Clayton Antitrust Act
Strengthen the Sherman Act of 1890
Allowed the gov’t to regulate business
Created the Federal Trade Commission
Fair trade laws
The Federal Reserve System
Federal Reserve System
Reorganized the federal banking system
Open you books to page 299
With a partner 1 person do 1 and 2
The other 3 and 4
Put the characteristics of the Federal
Reserve in your own words
Federal Reserve
1.
Created regional federal banks
Store capital and cash
Supervised by a board selected by the
pres.
3. Allow to borrow money-short term
4. Created currency
2.
Expand or contract the circulation of money
Other Accomplishments and
Failures of Wilson
Created Farm Loan Bank
Allowed farmers to get loans
Selecting Louis Brandeis to the Supreme
Court
Failures
Cabinet members extended Jim Crow practice
Opposed an amendment on women’s suffrage
No problem
Won easily in 1912
Limits of Progressivism
Different views
Wanted to fix problems in cities
Didn’t help farmers, nonunion workers
Limit immigration
Look overseas to help out
African Americans and
Progressivism
Only a small amount
benefited
Creation of the
NAACP
Issues in the South
Did not want to lose
votes
Women’s Suffrage
Women’s Suffrage
1848
Seneca Falls, NY
Susan B. Anthony
Against slavery
Demanded women be apart of the 14th and
15th Amendments
Civil Disobedience: Nonviolent refusal of a
law
National American Woman
Suffrage Association
NAWSA- Created by
Anthony, Lucy Stone
By 1900
Women could own,
sell, will property
Demand to vote went
up
Became more active
Why do you think
people would
oppose women’s
suffrage?
Strategies for Suffrage
Its 1910, how would
you try to earn the
right to vote?
1- push for an
amendment
¾ of the states
needed to ratify
States allow voting
Each state would
pass its own laws
Different Ideas
NAWSA
Peaceful approach
Congressional
Union (CU)
Protest but peaceful
Aggressive approach
State Legislation
Militant protest
Plan to have each
state pass laws
Push for an
amendment
The End of Suffrage
WWI
Women took on jobs that men had
Prohibition
Lost a reason to fight suffrage
However
August 24, 1920-19th Amendment was
passed
Last major reform of the Progressive Era