The Progressive

Presidents

Goal #34

Theodore Roosevelt,

William Howard Taft &

Woodrow Wilson pushed

for changes that still affect

us today

I. THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Sickly as a child

Uses home gym,

rowing & boxing

to build up his

body

Wife & mother

die on the same

day his daughter

is born – he

heads west

Remarried

NYC Police

Commissioner –

reduced corruption

Became Assistant

Secretary of the

Navy

A. ROOSEVELT AND THE

ROUGH RIDERS

Quit to form a volunteer

cavalry brigade, the Rough

Riders

1. Led charge up San Juan

Hill battle in Cuba

Roosevelt returned a hero

Elected governor of NY

McKinley’s vice-president

Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders

2. President William McKinley was assassinated 6 months into his second term- VP Theodore Roosevelt became the nation’s 26th president

McKinley was assassinated by an

anarchist in Buffalo in September

of 1901

B. THE MODERN

PRESIDENT

Youngest president

ever at age 42

Influenced the media

and shaped

legislation

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•1. Americans deserve a

“Square Deal”

•Uses Sherman Anti-Trust

Act to bust up influence of

big business

•2. After reading The

Jungle, pushes for Meat

Inspection Act

•3. Panama Canal

C. ROOSEVELT’S ENVIROMENTAL

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Roosevelt set aside

millions of acres of

forest reserves

Established wildlife

sanctuaries and

several 1. national

parks Yellowstone National

Park, Wyoming

Yellowstone National Park

First national park established in 1872

2. Conservation Movement

John Muir

With President Theodore Roosevelt

II. WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Republican William

Howard Taft easily won

1908 presidential

election

A.Taft “busted” 90

trusts during his 4

years in office

Taft, right, was Roosevelt’s

War Secretary

Promised to follow TR’s policies

More conservative

Angered Progressive leaders & TR

B. 1912 ELECTION

Republicans split between Taft and Teddy Roosevelt

Convention delegates nominated Taft

1.Some Republicans formed a third party – The Bull Moose Party and nominated Roosevelt

2. The Democrats put forward a reform - minded New Jersey Governor, Woodrow Wilson

Republicans split in 1912

Becomes Supreme Court Justice

C. The Progressive

or “Bull-Moose” Party

Roosevelt's remark to the press

that he felt "as fit as a bull moose"

gave the party its nickname.

1. It backed the creation of an

income tax, supported women's

suffrage and supported the

citizens' right to be involved in the

legislative process.

Roosevelt was ahead of his time!

Election of 1912

III. Woodrow Wilson

A. Professor and

president of Princeton

University

Governor of NJ -

reformed corrupt state

politics

Totally inexperienced

in national politics.

Wilson moved to

enact his program,

“New Freedom”

W. Wilson U.S. President

1912-1920

Federal Reserve Act

(1913)

Clayton Anti-Trust Act

(1914)

Federal Trade

Commission (1914)