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Colleen Moore

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Period 5

Chapter 19 Section 5

Roosevelt's Progressive Reforms

 fter !illiam Mc"inle# $as assassinated %heodore Roosevelt too& his place

Roosevelt's S(are )eal

 r*itration+ formal process to settle disp(tes

Reg(lating ,ig ,(siness

pton Sinclair $rote a*o(t the dangers of the meatpac&ing ind(str# in his novel %he .(ngleP(re /ood and )r(g ct+ a la$ that stopped the man(fact(re0 sale0 or transport of

misla*eled or contaminated food and dr(gs sold in interstate commerce

Roosevelt convinced Congress to reg(late railroad shipping rates

Conservation

Conservation+ Protection of nat(re and its reso(rces

.ohn M(ir $as a preservationist

Preservationists made the ational Par& Service

Roosevelt preserve the land in merica

%aft ngers Progressives

 !illiam o$ard %aft *ecame president in 193

%aft's dministration

%aft tho(ght that president sho(ld have less po$er than Roosevelt did

%aft tried to progress more slo$l# than Roosevelt did

%aft signed the Pa#ne-ldrich %ariff of 19390 angering cons(mers

ifford Pinchot $as acc(sed of selling p(*lic lands to *ig *(sinesses and $as fired%aft made more land government o$ned than Roosevelt did0 *(t $as still losing s(pport

from progressives

lection of 1912

Progressive Part#+ a political part# formed *# Roosevelt and his follo$ers nic&named the

*on(s part# after Roosevelt said he $as 7as strong as a *(ll moose7

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%he candidate for the )emocratic Part# $as $ith !oodro$ !ilson

 !oodro$ !ilson $on the election

 !ilson's Reforms

 !ilson opposed the living conditions of $or&ing-class mericans !ilson $anted to revise tariffs and *an&ing 

Si8teenth mendment+ n amendment that allo$ed the federal government to impose

direct ta8es on citiens' incomes

/ederal Reserve ct+ n act that created a national *an&ing s#stem called the /ederal

Reserve to reg(late the econom# 

Cla#ton ntitr(st ct+ :n 1914 that strengthened federal la$s against monopolies

/ederal %rade Commission

%he commission created in 1914 that had the po$er to investigate and p(nish (nfair trade

practices

 !ilson s(pported the "eating-;$en Child