the progressive presidents fight for the oval office from progressive to conservative
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The Progressive Presidents fight for the
Oval OfficeFrom Progressive to Conservative
1. Taft - From Shoe In to Shown Out!• Hand picked by TR to
become president in 1908 and continue on TR’s agenda (programs)
• Busted 90 trusts in his 4 year term
• Problems• Conservation –
Ballinger/Pinchot Affair led to a loss of trust among his progressive following because he fired a famous progressive conservationist
• Tariffs – lost support from both conservatives and progressives by passing tariff (Payne-Aldrich) that hurt consumers and business leaders
2. Election of 1912How Wilson won w/ only 42%!
Hint: It became a 3 man race.
3. Teddy Roosevelt (Progressive) – Bull Moose Party
• New Nationalism
• Abandonment of laissez faire
• Federal Trade Commission
• Minimum wage
• Child labor ban
• Workers’ compensation
• Women’s suffrage
• Government mediation of labor disputes
4. William Howard Taft (R)
• Quiet Confidence
• Becomes the conservative representative
• Gerrymandering plays into his favor, and against TR’s
5. Woodrow Wilson (Democrat)
• New Freedom
• Against “Triple Wall of Privilege”• Banks
• Tariff
• Trusts
“Don’t interfere when your enemy is destroying itself.”
6. Results of 1912 Election
• 6.2 million for Wilson (42%)
• 4.1 million for Roosevelt
• 3.4 million for Taft
7. Wilson’s 1st Two Years
• Lowered tariff
• Federal Reserve Act
• Clayton Anti-Trust Act
• Progressives win big in midterm elections
8. Accomplishments
• Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914 – strengthened Sherman Antitrust
• Federal Trade Commission – Watchdog of corporations so they wouldn’t abuse the working class.
• 16th Amendment – Federal Income Tax; larger incomes taxed at larger rates
• Federal Reserve System – creates basis, to this day, of the nations’ banking system
• Was president of the US during WWI
9. Wilson Limits Progressive Goals
WWI ends the Progressive Era – US to busy fighting
Appointed segregationists to run federal agencies which resulted in a segregated military and federal
govt
Despite promising to promote anti-lynching laws and equality for Af-Am during his campaign, he had
segregation re-instated at the capital once elected and said lynching was a state issue - Wilson and the KKK
10. Know:
• Referendum, initiative, and recall
• 16, 17, 18 & 19th Amendments
• WEB DuBois v. Booker T. Washington
• NAACP
• Ballinger v. Pinchot
• John Muir, conservation, preservation & National Parks