Agenda

• Review– Progressive Reforms Review– Women’s Suffrage– Roosevelt’s “Square Deal”– Upton’s Sinclair’s the Jungle

• Taft Presidency

Review Section 1

• 4 Goals of Progressives

• Protecting Social Welfare• Promoting Moral

Improvement• Creating Economic Reform• Fostering Efficiency

3

What were two organizations that worked to improve the social welfare of the poor?

YMCA & Salvation Army

How did prohibition fit into the goals of the Progressive Movement?

Much of the evils in society were blamed on alcohol abuse.

Eugene V. Debs ran for president five times as the candidate from what party?

Socialist Party??

Reforming Elections at the State Level

• Secret Ballot:

• Initiative:

• Referendum:

• Recall:

• Direct Election of Senator

• Privacy in casting ballots• Bill originated by the people,

not lawmakers• Voters decide if initiative

becomes law• Allows voters to remove

officials from office before the end of the term

• 17th Amendment

4

Suffrage

• Susan B. Anthony

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• NAWSA

• Suffrage Attained

• Led the Seneca Fall’s Convention in NY to organize Women’s Suffrage.

• Leader of the NAWSA

• Sought to pressure change at Local, State and National Levels.

• 19th Amendment - 1920

Roosevelt• Square Deal

• Bully Pulpit

• Trust Busting

• Sherman Anti-Trust Act

• The Jungle

• MIP – • PFDA –

• Roosevelt’s Promise

• Method for exposing injustice

• Attacked Trusts that interfered with fair competition.

• Used to go after 44 trusts.

• Muckraking book that exposed the Meat Packing Industry.

Meat Inspection Act

Pure Food and Drug Act

Progressivism Under Taft

Chapter 9 Section 4

Objectives

• Summarize the events of the Taft Presidency.

• Explain the division in the Republican Party.

• Describe the election of 1912.

William Howard Taft Presidency

Taft Becomes President

• Taft Selected By Roosevelt

• Ran Against William Jennings Bryan

Taft As President

• Successfully busted over 90 Trusts

• Payne Aldrich Tariff– Raised Tariffs on most imports– Angered Progressives

• Nominated conservative Richard Ballinger to Secretary of Interior– Angered Conservationists

The Republican Party Splits

Conservative Republicans

Vs.

Progressive Republicans

- Joseph Cannon

- Payne-Aldrich Tariff

- Midterm Elections-1910

The Return of Roosevelt

• “New Nationalism”

• Decided to run for president in 1912

• Conservative Republicans blocked nomination

• Third Party formed– Progressive Party

Election of 1912

• Four Candidates– Republican: Taft– Progressive: Roosevelt– Democrat: Wilson– Socialist: Debs

• Write down one discussion question (How or Why) about today’s subject. Possible topics include:– Taft’s nomination– Taft’s trust-busting– Payne- Aldrich Tariff– Taft’s Conservation– Problems in the Republican Party– The Bull Moose Party– Election of 1912??

• Why were progressive Republicans upset with Taft?

• Why was the Progressive Party started?

• Who were the candidates of the 1912 election?

• Which of the candidates was the least appealing to progressives?