The Progressive Era

Part 2: Politics

Progressive Politics

William McKinley

Spanish-American War

William Randolph Hearst

Spanish-American War

Spanish-American War

Election of 1900

William McKinley, Republican

William Jennings Bryan, Democrat

Winner

Leon CzolgoszWilliam McKinley

Theodore Roosevelt

The Panama Canal

The Panama Canal

The Great White Fleet

The “Trust Buster”

Election of 1908

William H. Taft, Republican William Jennings Bryan, Democrat

Winner

The Taft Administration

Election of 1912

Woodrow Wilson, Democrat

William H. Taft,Republican

Theodore Roosevelt,Progressive

(“Bull Moose”)

Winner