Progressive Presidents Chapter 17 Slide 2 Prog. Presidents
Theodore Roosevelt Republican and then the progressive (Bull- Moose
Party) 1901-1909 William Howard Taft Republican -1909-1913 Woodrow
Wilson Democrat 1913-1921 Slide 3 Slide 4 Slide 5 Roosevelt POTUS:
1901-1909 McKinley was assassinated TR was VP Slide 6 Slide 7 Slide
8 Slide 9 Campaign Slogans TR = Square Deal What does a square
represent? WW = New Freedom Freedom from??? Slide 10 Trusts TR
Trustbuster Good and bad trusts Taft busted 2xs more than TR
Standard Oil WW Clayton Antitrust Act tougher law Slide 11 Slide 12
Tariffs Taft Payne-Aldrich Act rose tariffs WW Underwood Tariff Act
cut tariffs Why would lowering tariffs be a progressive law? Slide
13 Slide 14 Graduated income tax Slide 15 Regulation TR Meat
Inspection Act, Pure Food & Drug Act Wilson Federal Trade
Commission; Federal Reserve Act Slide 16 Slide 17 Slide 18 Slide 19
Slide 20 Slide 21 Federal Reserve Organization Slide 22 Janet
Yellen Head of the Fed Slide 23 Slide 24 Workers TR 1 st POTUS to
use arbitration to end Coal Strike of 1902 WW Workingmans
Compensation Act, Adamson Act (8 hrs) Slide 25 Slide 26 Environment
TR Conservation (Gifford Pinchot) national parks Newlands
Reclamation Act Water in the west Taft fired Gifford Pinchot TR =
unhappy Slide 27 Preservation vs Conservation John MuirGifford
Pinchot Slide 28 Slide 29 Slide 30 TaftTRWoodrow Wilson Eugene Debs
RepublicanProgressive/ Bull Party DemocratsSocialists -Incumbent
-Conserv. repubs -3 rd term? -Prog. repubs -Gov. of NJPullman
Strike - Good showing in 1908 election 1912 Election Slide 31
