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Progressive Presidents and Reforms

Explore how McKinley, Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson shaped America with reforms and struggles against monopolies, labor disputes, and conservation. Learn about the Square Deal, trust-busting, and impactful policies like the 16th Amendment. Discover the challenges faced by these leaders as they navigated a changing nation. Delve into the Progressive era and its lasting impact on American society.

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Progressive Presidents and Reforms

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  1. Chapter 23, Sections 5 The Progressive Presidents

  2. Trusted president who was assassinated by Leon Czolgosz in 1901. William McKinley

  3. The Square Deal Roosevelt’s belief that the interests of business, labor, and consumers should be balanced for the public good.

  4. Arbitration is a formal meeting to discuss and settle disagreements.

  5. Author of book on the horrors of the meat-packing industry. Upton Sinclair

  6. Private mining, logging, and railroad companies opposed the effort to conserve federal lands.

  7. Roosevelt’s pick to follow him as president. Would later draw criticism from the new Progressive Party. William Howard Taft

  8. Trust-busting, conservationist president who would later form the “Bull Moose” or Progressive party. Theodore Roosevelt

  9. Democratic President who was once president of Princeton University. Woodrow Wilson

  10. The 16th Amendment allows the federal government to pass direct taxes (like the income tax).

  11. The Federal Trade Commission can investigate corporations and issue restraining orders to prevent “unfair trade practices”.

  12. The first Jewish federal Supreme Court Justice. Louis Brandeis

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