The Progressive Presidents

Theme 1: The strong progressive movement successfully demanded that the powers of government be applied to solving the economic and social problems of industrialization. Progressivism first gained strength at the city and state level, and then achieved national influence in the moderately progressive administrations of Theodore Roosevelt. Theme 2: Roosevelts hand-picked successor, William H. Taft, aligned himself with the Republican Old Guard, causing Roosevelt to break away and lead a progressive third-party crusade.

I.

Progressive Roots
A. Evolution of Ideas 1. Green, Pop, Mugwumps, Middle Class 2. Activists a. Henry Lloyd pioneer in investigative journalism b. Jacob Riis (How the Other Half Lives) c. Charlotte P. Gilman more involvement for women Muckrakers exposed corruption directly to public 1. Lincoln Steffens (The Shame of the Cities) 2. Ida Tarbell (History of Standard Oil) 3. David Phillips (The Treason of the Senate) 4. Ray Stannard (Following the Color Line) 5. Upton Sinclair (Jungle) Goals 1. Trusts, political machines, socialism, consumer protection, voting reform, conservation, banking, alcohol, female suffrage, and living conditions Political Reformers 1. Robert La Follette pioneer political reform 2. Hiram Johnson and Southern Pacific Women 1. Settlement House movement 2. Florence Kelley and National Consumers League 3. Muller v. Oregon, 1906 4. Triangle Shirtwaist C. fire, 1911

B.

C.

D.

From Jacob Riiss How the Other Half Lives, 1890

E.

II. TRs Square Deal

A.
1. 2. 3. 4.

Control of Corporations
Anthracite Coal Strike, 1902 Dept. of Commerce and Labor Northern Securities, 1902 Elkins (rebates) and Hepburn (bad trusts) Acts

B.
1. 2.

Consumer Protection
Meat Inspection Act, 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act, 1906

C.
1. 2.

Conservation
Gifford Pinchot
a. John Muir (preserve) v. Pinchot (conserve)

Newlands Reclamation Act

D.
1.
2. He always wanted to be the bride at every wedding and the corpse at every funeral

Challenge to Square Deal

Panic of 1907
a. Inelasticity of money

Lochner v. New York, 1905

III. Taft
A. B. C. Election 1908 Dollar Diplomacy Progressive Legislation
1. 2. 3. 4. 90 Anti-trust suits
a. rule of reason limited regulation

Bureau of Mines Mann-Elkins Act, 1910 Postal Savings Payne-Aldrich Tariff, 1909 Ballinger-Pinchot
a. Ballinger (corporate use) v Pinchot (rational use)

D.

Split in GOP, 1910

1. 2.

3. 4. 5. 6.

Uncle Joe Cannon Suit against US Steel Osawatomie Speech, 1910 Republican Convention, 1911

Election of 1912
Demos
New Freedom

Progressive
New Nationalism
Consolidation of trusts and labor unions, paralleled by growth of powerful regulatory agencies
Campaigned for womens suffrage, graduated income tax, lower tariffs, welfare/labor reform, minimum wage, social insurance Teddy Roosevelt, Jane Addams, Herbert Croly

Socialists
Not Marxist, but wanted alternative to corrupt 2party system.

Philosophy

Small business, entrepreneurship, and free functioning, unregulated & unmonopolized markets.
Campaigned for stronger anti-trust legislation, banking reform, and lower tariffs. States rights and shunned social welfare Woodrow Wilson, Louis Brandeis, William Jennings Bryan

Campaign Promises

Got ownership RR, efficient govt, labor reform

Supporters

IWW

IV. Wilson
A. Tariffs, Banks, Trusts
1. 2. 3. Underwood Tar, 1913 Income Tax, 1913 Federal Reserve Act a. Roosevelt Recession 1907 b. Pujo Committee c. L.B. Other Peoples Federal Trade Com. Clayton Act a. Danbury Hatters Case Labor Laws
17th Amendment 18th Amendment 19th Amendment

4. 5.

6.
Other Peoples Money and How the Bankers Use It (1913)

B.

Society
1. 2. 3.

IV. Wilson (cont.)

C. Challenges
1. 2. 3. Free Speech
a. Schenck v. U.S., 1919

Womans Suffrage
a. b. a. b. c. Carrie Chapman Catt Alice Paul Race Riots Niagra Movement NAACP

African Americans

D.

Foreign Policy
1. 2. 3. Anti-Imperialist in Asia Imperialist in LA Isolationist
a. Lusitania, Arabic, Sussex

RMS Lusitania sunk on May 7, 1915

E.

Election 1916
1. He kept us out of war!

Putting Things In Order

(use the information in chapter 28 to answer these questions)
1.________A former president opposes his handpicked successor for the Republican presidential nomination 2.________Sensational journalistic accounts of corruption and abuse of power in politics and business spur the progressive movement. 3.________A progressive forestry official feuds with Tafts secretary of interior, deepening the division of the Republican party. 4.________A novelistic account of Chicagos meatpacking industry sparks new federal laws to protect consumers.

Putting Things In Order Answers

A.) 5 B.) 1 C.) 4 D.) 2 E.) 3

Putting Things In Order

(use the information from chapter 29 to answer these questions)
1._____Wilson extracts a dangerously conditional German agreement to halt submarine warfare 2._____Wilsons superb leadership pushes major reforms of the tariff and monetary system through Congress 3.______The bull moose and the elephant are both electorally defeated by the donkey bearing the banner of New Freedom 4.______The heavy loss of American lives to German submarines nearly leads United States into war with Germany 5.______Despite efforts to avoid involvement in the Mexican revolution, Wilsons occupation of a Mexican port raises the threat of war

Answers to Putting Things In Order

A.5 B.2 C.1 D.4 E.3