Chapter Twenty Nine
Progressivism and the
Republican Roosevelt
American Pageant
McKinley
Wilson
T. Roosevelt
Kennedy, Cohen, Bailey
Taft
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Definition of a Progressive
OPPOSED TO:
Monopolies, Trusts
Public & Private
Corruption
Social Injustice
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Definition of a Progressive
OPPOSED TO:
Poverty
Inefficiency in
Government
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Definition of a Progressive
Well-educated,
Urban or Suburban
Middle Class
Democrats or
Republicans
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Definition of a Progressive
Insisted Society
Can Be Improved
Using Power of
Government as
Agency for Reform
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Definition of a Progressive
Abandoned the
Jeffersonian Ideas
on Individualism
and Laissez-Faire
Economics
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Definition of a Progressive
Best
Achievements
were at
State and City
Level
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Definition of a Progressive
The
Enemy were
Carnegie
the
Rockefeller
Bloated
Morgan
Trusts
Vanderbilt
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Definition of a Progressive
Included
Women, Blacks
Immigrants
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Goals of Progressives
Direct Primary
“ONE SEES HIS FINISH UNLESS GOOD GOVERNMENT RETAKES THE SHIP!”
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Goals of Progressives
Initiative
Referendum
State Legislatures
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Goals of Progressives
Recall
Thomas
Nast
Harpers Weekly
T. Nast
Boss
Tweed
of
New
York
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Goals of Progressives
Secret Ballot
(Australian)
Nast
Tweed
“What’s the matter? So Long as I count the Votes, what are
you going to do about it?”
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Goals of Progressives
Direct Election of Senators
Oil Trust
Copper
Trust
Steel
Beam
Trust
“This is a
Senate of the
Monopolies
by the
Monopolies
and for the
Monopolies”
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Goals of Progressives
Woman’s Suffrage
Susan
B.
Anthony
Elizabeth
Cady
Stanton 15
Goals of Progressives
Prohibition
Girl: “Daddy’s in
there –”
Boy: “And our shoes
and stockings and
clothes and food are
in there and they’ll
never come out.”
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Goals of Progressives
City Government:
City Commission
City Manager
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Muckrakers
McClures, Colliers,
Cosmopolitan
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Muckrakers
"I aimed at the
public’s heart
and by accident
I hit it in the
stomach.“
Upton Sinclair
1906
Sinclair
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Muckrakers
Meat Inspection Act of 1906,
Pure
Food and Drug Act of 1906
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Progressive Leaders
Robert
LaFollette
Hiram Johnson
Woodrow
Wilson
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Progressive Leaders
Theodore
Roosevelt
Charles Evans
Hughes
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T.R –“The Trust-Buster”
“Cause and Effect”
Grant Hamilton,
Puck Magazine,
circa: 1905
Anti-Roosevelt
Cartoon
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T.R –“The Trust-Buster”
“Follow the Leader”
W.A. Rogers,
Harpers Weekly,
January 21, 1905
Pro-Roosevelt
Cartoon
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J.D. Rockefeller – Oil Trust
The Trust Giant’s Point of View
“What a Funny Little Government.”
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T.R –“The Trust-Buster”
Anthracite Coal Strike
of 1902
Dept. of Commerce and
Labor
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T.R –“The Trust-Buster”
Anthracite Coal Strike
of 1902
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T.R –“The Trust-Buster”
Anthracite Coal Strike
of 1902
Coal Breaker Boys
Age 8-14
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T.R –“The Trust-Buster”
Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902
Coal Breaker Boys Age 8-14
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T.R –“The Trust-Buster”
Good Trust - Bad Trust
Northern Securities
Company Case 1902
Elkins Act of 1903
Hepburn 1906
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T.R –“The Trust-Buster”
Meat Inspection Act, 1906
Pure Food and Drug Act, 1906
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Election of 1904
Republicans:
Theodore Roosevelt – Pres.
Alton B. Parker – V.P.
Democrats:
Alton B. Parker – Pres.
Henry Davis – V.P.
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Election of 1904
GOP
56%
DEM
37%
Republicans – Theodore Roosevelt – 56.4% of Popular Vote
Democrats - Alton B. Parker - 37.6% of Popular Vote
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Election of 1908
Republicans:
William H. Taft – Pres.
James Sherman – V.P.
Democrats:
William J. Bryan – Pres.
John Kern – V.P.
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Election of 1908
GOP
54%
DEM
43%
Republicans – William Howard Taft - 51.6% of Popular Vote
Democrats - William Jennings Bryan - 43% of Popular Vote 35
Taft Adminstration
Philander Knox
Secretary of State
Dingley Tariff of 1897
Speaker of the House
Joe Cannon
PayneAldrich
Tariff of
1909
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Taft Adminstration
Speaker of the House
Joe Cannon
George W. Norris
Mann-Elkins Act
T.R. and the Osawatomie
Kansas Speech
“New Nationalism”
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Taft Adminstration
“Dollar Diplomacy”
National Progressive
Republican League
Robert M. LaFollette
Convention of 1912
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Election of 1912
Republicans:
William H. Taft – Pres.
Nicholas Butler – V.P. Democrats:
Woodrow Wilson – Pres.
Thomas Marshall – V.P.
Progressives
Theodore Roosevelt – Pres.
Hiram Johnson – V.P.
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Election of 1912
DEM
41%
PROG
27%
GOP
23%
Democratic: Woodrow Wilson - 41.8% of Popular Vote
Progressive: Theodore Roosevelt - 27.4 of Popular Vote
Republican: William Howard Taft - 23.2% of Popular Vote 40
Sources:
Carnegie – http://voteview.uh.edu/carnegie.htm
Rockefeller – http://www.facade.com/celebrity/John_D_Rockefeller/
Morgan – http://www.sil.si.edu/Exhibitions/Curtis/98-307b.jpg
Vanderbilt - http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/speccol/
Mrs. Rutherford B. Hayes - Hayes – http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/cph/3a50000/3a53000/3a53300/3a53341r.jpg
W.E.B. Du Bois - - Library of Congress - http://www.americaslibrary.gov/aa/dubois/aa_dubois_subj_e.html
Immigrants -- http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3g00000/3g05000/3g05500/3g05545v.jpg
http://www.history.ohio-state.edu/projects/Immigration/AmericansintheRaw/
Cartoon Slide 10 - - http://www.history.ohio-state.edu/projects/uscartoons/gapecartoons/TrustsAsPirates.htm
Minessota State Legislature - http://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/
Missouri State Capital - http://www.cupola.com/html/bldgstru/statecap/slide/mocap1e.htm
Texas State Capital - http://www3.baylor.edu:80/Library/BCPM/Poage/photos/7bcapitol.html
Thomas Nast on Tweed - http://www.graphicwitness.org/group/harper.htm
Thomas Nast on Voting - http://www2.truman.edu/parker/research/cartoons.html
Thomas Nast - http://www.serve.com/shea/germusa/nastnyer.htm
Bosses of the Senate – Joseph Keppler –1889 - http://www.urbandreamsproject.org/lessonplans/
capitalism/image/bosses.jpg
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Sources:
Women’s Suffrage Cartoon 1912 - http://womenshistory.about.com/library/pic/bl_p_ohio_1912.htm
Susan B. Anthony - http://www.history.rochester.edu/class/sba/big.gif
Elizabeth Cady Stanton - http://www.lib.rochester.edu/rbk/women/ecs2.gif
Prohibition flyer - http://www.wpl.lib.oh.us/AntiSaloon/print/fliers/emotion/FLYdad.gif\
Upton Sinclair – http://us.history.wisc.edu/hist102/photos/assets/photos/1046.jpg
The Jungle Cover - http://museum.nist.gov/object.asp?ObjID=45
City Council - http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/searchresultsK.cfm?&trg=2&image_id=804935&title=
The%20court%20of%20Arbitration%2C%20organized%20by%20Act%20of%20Legislature%20for%20settlement
%20of%20mercantile%20disputes%20without%20resort%20to%20courts%20of%20law%20%3A%20the%20Cour
t%20in%20session%2E&strucID=329580&dl=1&keyword=legislature
McClures – http://www.the-antiqueshop.com/inventory/magazines/mcclures714.htm
Cosmopolitan – http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAcosmopolitan.htm
Colliers - http://www.rowinghistory.net/images/Gallery/Colliers%201916.jpg
Robert M. LaFollette - http://us.history.wisc.edu/hist102/photos/html/1073.html
Hiram W. Johnson –
Woodrow Wilson –
Charles Evans Hughes- http://www.michaelariens.com/ConLaw/justices/Hughes1.gif
Theodore Roosevelt - http://www.theodoreroosevelt.org/life/biopictures.htm
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Sources:
Hamilton’s “Cause and Effect” - http://www.theodore-roosevelt.com/puckframes.html
“Follow the Leader” - http://www.theodore-roosevelt.com/harperframes.html
John D. Rockefeller cartoon - http://www.history.ohiostate.edu/projects/uscartoons/verdict/ht/22jan1900.htm
Breaker Boys 1 - http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/I?detr:8:./temp/~ammem_1wj8::displayType=1:m856sd=det:m856sf=4a07285:@@@mdb=manz,eaa,aae
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dag,fsaall,aep,fine,fmuever,dcm,cmns,cowellbib,toddbib,lomaxbib,ngp,gottlieb,alad,mcc,mymhiwebib,aipn,afcwip,
fawbib,omhbib,pan,vv,wpapos,psbib,pin,presp,qlt,ncr,mesnbib,denn,runyon,wtc,detr,upboverbib,varstg,horyd,hawp
,suffrg,awh,awhbib,wright
Breaker Boys 2 - http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/I?detr:79:./temp/~ammem_1wj8::displayType=1:m856sd=det:m856sf=4a16385:@@@mdb=manz,eaa,aa
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Breaker Boys 3 - http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/I?detr:89:./temp/~ammem_1wj8::displayType=1:m856sd=det:m856sf=4a07284:@@@mdb=manz,eaa,aa
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,dag,fsaall,aep,fine,fmuever,dcm,cmns,cowellbib,toddbib,lomaxbib,ngp,gottlieb,alad,mcc,mymhiwebib,aipn,afcwip
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Sources:
Coal Miners 1 - http://photoswest.org/cgi-bin/imager?10062765+X-62765
Miner 1 - http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/I?fsaall:325:./temp/~ammem_1wj8::displayType=1:m856sd=fsa:m856sf=8c20824:@@@mdb=manz,eaa,
aaeo,aaodyssey,hh,gottscho,bbpix,bbcards,magbell,berl,lbcoll,cdn,cic,cwnyhs,cwar,consrvbib,coolbib,coplandbib,c
urt,dag,fsaall,aep,fine,fmuever,dcm,cmns,cowellbib,toddbib,lomaxbib,ngp,gottlieb,alad,mcc,mymhiwebib,aipn,afc
wip,fawbib,omhbib,pan,vv,wpapos,psbib,pin,presp,qlt,ncr,mesnbib,denn,runyon,wtc,detr,upboverbib,varstg,horyd,h
awp,suffrg,awh,awhbib,wright
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