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Chapter 9 limits to progessivism

Chapter 9 limits to progessivism. TR and his Square D eal platform challenges Taft a republican by running as a third party candidate of the Bull Moose Party Woodrow Wilson (democrat) wins He calls his programs the New Freedom Reduce Tariffs,

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Chapter 9 limits to progessivism

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  1. Chapter 9 limits to progessivism TR and his Square Deal platform challenges Taft a republican by running as a third party candidate of the Bull Moose Party Woodrow Wilson (democrat) wins He calls his programs the New Freedom Reduce Tariffs, Bank reform creation of the creature of Jekyl Island the federal reserve. Bank, which is neither. Regulate trusts.

  2. President Taft continues reform • Prosecutes twice as many trusts • Expands national forests • Supports mine safety

  3. Drastic Change 1913 • Federal Reserve Bank • 16th Amendment to constitution Income tax • 17th amendment direct election of Senators • 19th amendment originally proposed by Susan B. Anthony one of the greats of the Suffrage movement and pressed on by Carrie Chapman Catt gives women the vote 1920

  4. Blacks have few benefits from progressive reform • Segregation is the law of the land in the south. • The supreme court agrees • In the landmark decision • Plessy v Ferguson 1898 • Which says separate • Facilities for blacks and • whites are equal

  5. Without Sanctuary

  6. http://withoutsanctuary.org/

  7. Plight of African Americans • Booker Taliaferro (T) Washington sets up the Tuskegee Institute to help educate blacks • Accommodation-Washington’s idea of accepting Jim Crow and emphasizing economic equality • W.E. Deboisanother prominent African American . First black gradate of Harvard, helped found NAACP argued equality at once. Get the vote and end discrimination.

  8. Melting Pot • Many Like TR felt that Nativism ( American born people and culture) was superior to immigrant • “Nineteenth-century democracy needs no more complete vindication for its existence than the fact that it has kept for the white race the best portions of the new world’s surface.” TR • Don’t let anyone in but Anglo-Saxon people.

  9. Many will reject the capitalist movement. • Eugene Debs leading Socialist in US helps found the International Workers of the World The Wobblies • Willrun for the presidency several times, and even from Jail

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