Progressive Movement under Taft and Wilson

Progressive Movement under Taft and WilsonCh 11, Sec 3-4William Howard TaftTRs Sec. of War; TRs handpicked successor.Elected 1908.Progressive, not strong or decisive as TR.Tried, failed to reduce tariffs.Did not conserve US land like TR, allowed exploitation.1910, TR returns from African safari to see US dislike of Taft; begins Bull Moose Party (Progressive 3rd Party) to challenge Taft.

William Howard Taft

Tafts Tub

Bull Moose Party wanted: tariff reduction, womens suffrage, 8 hour workday, ban child labor.TR shot in attempted assassination while campaigning.1912-4 way election:Republicans William TaftBull Moose (Progressive) Theodore RooseveltDemocrats Woodrow WilsonSocialists Eugene V. Debs (labor leader)Woodrow Wilson won.

Woodrow WilsonPresident of Princeton, governor of New Jersey, reputation as reformer.Passed tariff reduction.Created first income tax.Passed Clayton Antitrust Act; laid out activities that business couldnt do.Created Federal Reserve System; created 12 Federal Reserve banks, served as banks for the banks, would prevent panics.Banks kept money in FR bank, could borrow money to meet short term needs.1916 - won 2nd term on Progressive policies, he kept us out of war (WWI).

Woodrow Wilson

Federal Reserve Map of USAProgressives did not mess with race relations.Maintained Jim Crow and segregation.Progressivism wound down during WWI.

Womens SuffrageFor 70 years, US women pushed for voting rights.1848-Seneca Falls Convention-Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott.Susan B. Anthony-big suffragette, brought attention using civil disobedience.nonviolent refusal to obey a law in effort to change it.Anthony & others pushed for state amendments for suffrage, constitutional amendment.1890-Wyoming first state to let women vote.

Lucretia MottElizabeth Cady Stanton

New Generation of SuffragettesStanton died in 1902, Anthony in 1906.Alice Paul, Lucy Burns took over movement.Held protests, burned Wilson in effigy, got arrested, held hunger strikes.Pushed harder and harder.1919, Congress finally debated suffrage amendment, passed it, sent it to states.1920-19th Amendment ratified.Cant deny right to vote based on sex.

Alice Paul

Lucy Burns

19th Amendment - 1920