Post on 16-Oct-2020
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)