Transcript Progressivism Under Taft

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
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
3
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
• Led the Seneca Fall’s
• Susan B. Anthony
Convention in NY to
organize Women’s Suffrage.
• Elizabeth Cady
• Leader of the NAWSA
Stanton
• Sought to pressure change
• NAWSA
at Local, State and National
Levels.
• Suffrage Attained • 19th Amendment - 1920
Roosevelt
• Square Deal
• Roosevelt’s Promise
• Bully Pulpit
• Method for exposing
injustice
• Trust Busting
• Sherman Anti-Trust Act • Attacked Trusts that
interfered with fair
• The Jungle
competition.
• Used to go after 44 trusts.
• MIP –
Meat Inspection Act
• PFDA –
•
Muckraking
book
that
Pure Food and Drug Act
exposed the Meat Packing
Industry.
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?