HOT ROC
 Read 17.5 and use the information in there for
your historical applications as you add
progressive and suffrage to your glossary.
 Reminders:
 Essay due on block day. Paper copy due in class,
digital copy due to www.turnitin.com
 Vocab Quiz Friday
 Test review on Friday at lunch
 Test on Monday October 10th
POV Activity: Confronting Racism in the
Progressive Era
 How should issues of
race and racism be
addressed in American
society?
 Read and respond to
DuBois and Washington
excerpts from pgs 228 &
229.
 Which perspective do you
agree most with and
why?
 Which is the liberal point
of view and which is the
radical point of view?
Categorizing practice
 Explain the different responses people had to the problems at the end of
the 19th Century.
 Sort these people or events into Reactionary, Conservative, Liberal or
Radical:
Populists
Progressives
Unions
strikes
Nativists
monopolies
Political machines
Social Gospel Movement
voting restriction laws
Social Darwinism
Chinese Exclusion Act
 Sort these people or events into a Big Government or Big Business
solution to the problem.
Tenement houses
Laissez-faire policies
Robber Barons
Political Machines
Nat’l Child Labor Committee
Workers’ Compensation Vertical Integration
inspectors of garbage collection
The Progressive
Presidents
Directions
 Make a large Venn diagram on a whole sheet of paper.
 Use 18.2, 18.3, 18.4 (p.232-239) to find out what
Progressive reforms each of the following Presidents did
and what similarities/differences the Presidents had
between each other.
 Think of:
 Political reforms
 Economic reforms
 Social reforms
 At the end, use the information to write a thesis
sentence response that includes prompt, organizational
categories and position.
Use 18.2, 18.3, 18.4 (p.232-239) to find out
what Progressive reforms each of the following
Presidents did.
• Political
reforms
• Economic
reforms
• Social
reforms
Roosevelt
Wilson
Taft
Thesis statement
Prompt: Compare and contrast the
progressive reforms of Presidents
Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson.
Wrap Up: The Election of
1912
*Add this information to your venn diagram
Candidates
Roosevelt:
 Republican President
1901-1908
 Wanted Republican
nomination, failed to get
it, created Progressive
“Bull Moose” party
Taft:
 Incumbent
 Republican President
1908-1912
Wilson
 Democrat
And…Eugene Debs- Socialist
Modern Example:
Results
Answer Key
Political
Reforms
Teddy Roosevelt
1901-1908
Square Deal- big
business reform
Economic Sherman Anti Trust
Reforms
Act
Hepburn Act- The
Fed. Gov. could set
railroad rates
Arbitration for steel
workers
Social
Reforms
Meat Inspection Act,
Pure Food and Drug
Act (FDA)
US Forest Serviceset aside land for
national forests
William Taft
1908-1912
Wanted to limit
the power of big
corporations
Lawsuits against
trusts
Woodrow Wilson
1912-1921
New Freedom: limited the
power of trusts
Clayton antitrust act- limit
trusts even more, protected
labor unions
19th Amendment- Suffrage
Similarities
Low tariff
platform in his
campaignhowever in 1909
he raised tariffsupset Progressives
Tariff Reform
Created the Federal Trade
Commission
Federal Reserve (The Fed)
16th Amendment- income
tax
17th Amendment- direct
election
Taft and Wilson wanted
to reform the banking
system
Added land to
national forests,
Children’s Bureau
National wildlife
refuge
Keating-Owen Child Labor
Act
National Park Service
18th AmendmentProhibition
All three did not worry
about racial tensions in
the US.
Taft and Wilson set up 8
hour workdays
Roosevelt supported Taft
in the 1908 election.
All presidents wanted to
reform big business
Roosevelt and Wilson
sympathetic to women’s
right to vote
New Vocab
 Election
Putting it all together
 Notes Checklist
 While putting together the checklist, you will watch a
video about the turn of the century.
 The Century: Seeds of Change
 Part 1: Start at 6:13
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEcpJQxtswA
 Part 2:
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IepTBls1uk&feature=related
 Part 3:
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dae7QI6gIsA&feature=related