title of presentation - mr. rossi's history...progressive policies. o progressive reforms...
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The Progressive Presidents
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Main Ideas
o The federal government responded to grassroots reform efforts by enacting progressive policies.
o Progressive reforms sought to established a greater degree of democratic participation and strengthening the power of the federal government to regulate the economy.
o Presidents Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson all instituted progressive policies, though they were bitter rivals.
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Essential Questions
o How did the excesses of the Gilded Age contribute to the development of the Progressive Movement?
o What were the goals of Progressives, and what were their accomplishments?
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What is Progressivism?
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What is Progressivism?
Broad-Based Reformso Regulation of big business
o Labor protection
o Consumer protection
o Direct democracy
o Pragmatism & efficiency
o Education
o Women’s rights
o Prohibition
o Environmentalism
o …Civil rights?
Roosevelt (R)
Taft (R)
Wilson (D)
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Theodore Roosevelt(R)1901-1909
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Coal Strike Resolved
o For the first time, the federal government acted as a neutral arbiter rather than siding with ownerso Pay increase &
shorter hours
o But United Mine Workers were notrecognized as bargaining agent
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Trustbusting Under Roosevelt
o First president to enforce the 1890 Sherman Anti-Trust Act
o Initiated 44 anti-trust lawsuits
o “Good trusts” vs. “bad trusts”
o Northern Securities v. U.S., 1904
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Northern Securities v. U.S., 1904
o “Holding company”o Railroad trust
o Theodore Roosevelt vs. J.P. Morgan
o Enforcement of Sherman Anti-Trust Act
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Election of 1904
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Hepburn Act, 1906
o Expanded authority of Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC)o Set maximum RR rates
o Ended “rebates”
o Audited bookkeepers
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Meatpacking Scandal
o Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle, 1906o Undercover
“muckraking” journalism
o Public outrage
o Europe stopped importing American meat
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Consumer Protection
o Meat Inspection Act, 1906
o Pure Food & Drug Act, 1906o Paved way for
creation of FDA
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Conservation Under T.R.
o T.R. supported Pinchot’s “managed use”
o Newlands Reclamation Acto Irrigation &
flood control
o U.S. Forest Service
o New national parks
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Federally-Owned Land
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T.R. & Civil Rights
o Progresso Consulted with B.T.
Washington
o Appointed African Americans to low-level federal jobs
o Opposed school segregation
o Drawbackso Took little initiative on
legislation
o Black soldiers: dishonorable discharges & disparaging comments
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Gentlemen’s Agreement, 1907
o Japan stops emigration of laborers to U.S.
o U.S. allows Japanese-American children into public schools
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Roosevelt’s Foreign Policy
o Roosevelt Corollary
o “Big Stick Diplomacy”
o Great White Fleet
o Panama Canal
o Nobel Prize for Treaty of Portsmouth
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William H. Taft(R)1909-1913
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Election of 1908
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16th Amendment
o Income tax
o Progressive (graduated) taxation
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Mann-Elkins Act
o Expanded authority of Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC)o Telegraph &
telephone companies
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Trustbusting Under Taft
o “The Great Trustbuster”
o Initiated 99 anti-trust lawsuits (more than twice as many as Roosevelt)
o U.S. v. U.S. Steel
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U.S. v. U.S. Steel
o Taft initiated lawsuit against J.P. Morgan’s steel empireo Broke Roosevelt’s
promise to protect Morgan’s “good” trust
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Growing Frustration with Taft?
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Payne-Aldrich Tariff
o Compromise billo Some
reductions
o Some increases
o Angered Progressives, who wanted more reductions
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Tariff Rates
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Ballinger-Pinchot Affair
o Conservation policy controversyo Gifford Pinchot
o Appointed by Roosevelt
o Fired by Taft
o Richard Ballingero Appointed by Taft
o Growing split in Republican Partyo Taft vs. Roosevelt
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Taft’s Foreign Policy
o “Dollar Diplomacy”
o Investment in Asia & Latin America
o “Carrot” rather than “stick”?
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The Election of 1912
Roosevelt, Taft & Wilson
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“New Nationalism” vs. “New Freedom”
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The Candidates of 1912
Taft(Republican)
Roosevelt(Progressive)
Wilson(Democratic)
Debs(Socialist)
Chafin(Prohibition)
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Electoral College Results, 1912
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Wilson’s Landslide Victory
Republican Party divided by Bull Moose equals Democratic victory
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Woodrow Wilson(D)1913-1921
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The “New Freedom”
Tear down the “triple wall of privilege”1. Lower high tariffs
2. Regulate big business
3. Reform the banking system
“Priming the pump” for business growth
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Underwood Tariff
o Lowered tariff rates
o Amendment instituted a graduated (progressive) income tax
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Clayton Antitrust Act
o Banned price discrimination
o Banned interlocking directorates
o Protected labor unions from antitrust actions
o Gave “teeth” to Sherman Antitrust Act
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Federal Reserve Monetary Policy
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Adamson Act
o Regulation of interstate commerceo Eight-hour workday for
RR employees
o Overtime pay
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17th Amendment
o Direct election of senators
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18th Amendment
o Prohibition of alcohol
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19th Amendment
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Louis Brandeis
o First Jewish Supreme Court justice
o Appointed by Wilson
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Wilson & African Americans
o Segregation of federal offices
o Discouraged African Americans from applying for federal employment
o Praise for the Confederacy & KKK
o The Birth of a Nationo 1st film screened at
the White House
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Wilson’s Foreign Policy
o “Missionary (Moral) Diplomacy”
o Meddling in Mexican Revolution
o World War Io Neutrality
o Aid to Allies
o Declaration of War
o Making Peace after WWIo 14 Points
o Treaty of Versailles
o League of Nations
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Edith Wilson
o Woodrow Wilson’s stroke, 1919o Harmed efforts in
support of Treaty of Versailles and League of Nations
o First Lady assumed many of the president’s responsibilities