US vs. Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson Who is a “Progressive President”
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US vs. Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson
Who is a “Progressive President”
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Three Presidents have claimed to be a Progressive President. You are a judge in the court of history and must decide.
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Format
• Each president will state their case based on their accomplishments
• You will form an opinion based on the four goals for the progressive movement.
• You will express your opinion in an essay that discusses how your choice for Progressive President fulfills each goal.
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Goals of Progressivism
1. Protect social welfare
2. Promote moral improvement
3. Create economic reform
4. Foster efficiency
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Theodore Roosevelt
• Settlement of 1902 coal strike favoring workers but did not recognize union
• Filed 44 suits against businesses under Sherman Anti-Trust Act
• Elkins and Hepburn acts strengthen ICC
• Pushed passage of Meat Inspection and Pure Food and Drug Acts
• Set aside lands for National parks, and preserves
• Commerce and Labor Depts. established
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William H. Taft
• “Busted” twice as many trusts as Roosevelt.
• Payne-Aldrich Tariff which lowered overall rates*
• Mann-Elkins Act strengthened the ICC placed telephone and telegraph under ICC
• Standard Oil Co. was successfully prosecuted
• 16th Amendment ratified—income tax
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Woodrow Wilson
• Passage of Underwood Tariff—lowering rate
• Federal Reserve Act—created a central banking system
• Federal Trade Commission
• Clayton Anti-trust Act
• Child Labor Laws
• 17th,18th,and 19th amendments passed