Name: ANSWER KEY Date: Mod: Each of you are now Presidential Historians. In your group, you will be researching and presenting information about the three Progressive Era Presidents Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson. In your group, pick a President. Then, take a Chromebook and begin researching that man. After we complete our research, we will present our information to our groups, then to the larger class. Roosevelt 1901-1909 Republican Progressive / Bull Moose Conservation Laws o National Park System Square Deal o Various progressive reforms o Solved and fixed problems o Meat Inspection o Pure Food and Drug Act o Creation of the FDA Meat Inspection Act o Cause: Upton Sinclair writes The Jungle o Makes meat packing industry safer o Creates inspectors / inspections Trust Buster o Breaks up Monopolies and Civil Rights for African Americans o Non existent Sherman Anti-Trust Act o Unable to slow merger movement o Hard to enforce Genocide in Russo- Japanese War Big Stick Policy o American involvement in Latin / South America o Economic Unrest o Political Failure o Panama o Civil Unrest
Taft Trusts o Bans horizontal and vertical integration Russo-Japanese War o Russia & Japan o Teddy wants to keep US control over Japanese interests/economy o Fought in Korea & Manchuria Panama Canal Starts 1909-1913 Republican Busted more trusts than Roosevelt o Breaks up Standard Oil in 1911 (Rockefeller) Strengthens the Interstate Commerce Commission o Regulates trade & commerce between states Civil Service Reform o Civil Service: government workers (state & fed) o Improvement in the civil service Prohibition Not popular Gets stuck in bathtubs Busted a lot of trusts o Putting people out of work Failed to lower tariffs o Decreasing foreign trade Anti-Conservationist Anti-Roosevelt Taft Roosevelt election splits and weakens the Republican Party Dollar Diplomacy o Latin / South
Wilson o Conduct / requirements o Tries to get rid of corruption and patronage Prohibition o Improves morality 16 th Amendment o Federal income tax Dollar Diplomacy o Loans to other countries that assisted American foreign policy goals Postal Service o Development of the modern Postal Service 1913-1921 Democrat Federal Reserve Federal Trade Commission o Investigates unfair business practices Underwood-Simmons Act o Reduces tariffs on imports (encouraging trade) o Federal income tax Child Labor Laws o Controlled child America Declared war (failed to keep neutrality) WWI Failure of Prohibition Civil Rights (ignores them) o African Americans o Racial discrimination laws
labor 8 hour work day for Railroad Workers o (((Knights of Labor))) o Significance: RR Workers are generally New Immigrants who have the worst working conditions Government loans to farmers o Significance: farmers are providing food to the nation, and these loans encourage that breadbasket WWI self determination Beginning of the Great Depression seeds are laid with Wilson
Describe the following political parties. What did they believe in? Who was their major candidate during the Progressive Era? Political Party Major / Main Candidate Summary of Political Beliefs Bull Moose / Progressive Party Teddy Roosevelt Direct election of senators (white) women s suffrage Tariff reduction Social welfare Big Stick policy Democrat Woodrow Wilson Economic reform Increase tariffs self determination Republican Howard Taft (Teddy) Reducing monopolies (trust busting) Lower tariffs Dollar diplomacy foreign policy Socialist Eugene V Debs Decreasing capitalism o Socialism : economic / political / social equality Labor unions