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PROGRESSIVES IN CONTROL OF GOVERNMENT!

PROGRESSIVES IN CONTROL OF GOVERNMENT!. 1904-1920 Teddy Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson. Teddy Roosevelt: The First Modern President. Teddy “takes the veil” Early career Progressive Governor of New York Inherits the Presidency in 1900 Elected President in 1904

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PROGRESSIVES IN CONTROL OF GOVERNMENT!

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  1. PROGRESSIVES IN CONTROL OF GOVERNMENT! 1904-1920 Teddy Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson

  2. Teddy Roosevelt: The First Modern President • Teddy “takes the veil” • Early career • Progressive Governor of New York • Inherits the Presidency in 1900 • Elected President in 1904 • Progressive Republican Platform • Square Deal • Government Regulation of Corporations: Meat Inspection Act, Hepburn/Elkins Acts, Pure Food and Drug Act • Anthracite Coal Strike • Dept. of Commerce and Labor • Trust Busting: JP Morgan and Northern Securities • Conservation: Newlands Reclamation Act, Public Parks • Panic of 1907 • Over extension of credit (gee, sounds like today), over production, mismanagement • Deal with JP Morgan and cronies • Need for new central banking system?

  3. TR’s Protégé: William Howard Taft, 1908-1912 • An even bigger Trust Buster • No distinction btw “good” or “bad” trusts • Rule of Reason • JP Morgan • Bureau of Mines • Conservation of resources • Mann-Elkins • Telegraph, telephone, cable under ICC • Postal Savings Bank System • Public banking/savings system • Payne-Aldrich Tariff, 1909 • High Protective Tariff, 37% • Ballinger-Pinchot Controversy • Dept of Interior vs. Forestry • Taft-Roosevelt Split, 1912

  4. Woodrow Wilson squeaks in…1912 • New Freedom Program, Democrats • Progressive Republicans and Socialists • Wilson’s early career • First President from the seceded states! • Attacks the “Triple Wall of Privilege” • Underwood Tariff Act, 1913 • Addressed Congress for 29% • 16th Amendment • Federal Reserve Act, 1913 • Pujo Committee findings • 15 branches • Federal Trade Commission Act, 1914 • Clayton Anti-Trust Act • “cease and desist” orders

  5. More Progressive Reforms under Wilson, 1912-1920 • Louis Brandeis • Supreme Court • Federal Highway Act • Rural areas • Workingmen’s Compensation Act • Civil service employees • Child Labor Act • Interstate commerce • Adamson Act • 8 hours, interstate commerce • Federal Farm Act • Low interest loans for farmers • Smith-Levee Act • State colleges

  6. The Supreme Court during the Progressive Era – still conservative • Lochner v. New York • 10 hours for bakers…NOT • Adkins v. Children’s Hospital • No minimum wage for women • Schenck v. US • Oliver Wendell Holmes, “clear and present” danger

  7. Temperance and Woman’s Suffrage • 18th Amendment • Volstead Act • Bigger federal government • 19th Amendment • Split in women’s movement • Radicals vs. Moderates • National American Woman Suffrage Assoc. (Catt) • Downplayed as their “right”, less confrontational • Alice Paul and the Congressional Union • Congressional Union: Hunger strikes and protests • Jeannette Rankin

  8. African-Americans and the Progressive Era • Demographic movement to the North • Result of The Great War • Chicago Race Riots • Ida B. Wells • Anti Lynching Movement • NAACP • WEB DuBois • Niagara Movement, “talented tenth” • NAACP • Woodrow Wilson • Birth of a Nation, like writing history with “lightening!” • Booker T. Washington • Tuskegee Institute

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