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Statement of Inquiry: People have experiences and obstacles placed in front of them. These moments create who we are,
whether the experience is positive or negative.
Chapter 19-21: “Gilded Age” & Reform
Lesson 15: Progressive Presidents
Objective: Determine who the Progressive Presidents were and their accomplishments.
Do Now:
1. Find yourself a textbook
Go to page 666 and complete the closed notes
 Expansion of Voting Power

Progressive worked to change state and local governments in order to reduce the

Under pressure from reformers many states adopted
,a
measure that ensured the privacy of every voter
 Voting Reform

17th Amendment- allowed Americans

Other reform measure allowed voters to take
corrupt
.

Recall-voters have the ability to remove public officers from office before the

Initiative- allow voters to

Referendum- allow voters to
a law that had already
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Statement of Inquiry: People have experiences and obstacles placed in front of them. These moments create who we are,
whether the experience is positive or negative.
Go to page 680 and complete the closed notes
 Roosevelt’s Square Deal

Roosevelt believed that the interests of
,
,
¸should be balance for the public good.

He called this policy the
.
 Regulating Big Business

Roosevelt made regulating
a top goal of his administration


Muckrakers
support for this regulation.
In 1906 Congress passed the Pure Food and Drug Act.

This law
the manufacture,
, transportation of
or contaminated food and drugs.

Roosevelt also was the
to successfully use the 1890
.

The public largely supported this expansion of federal
.
 Conservation

Conservation,
.


Roosevelt was the first president to consider conservation an important national priority.
Roosevelt also started the Forest Service

The Forest Service gained
of public land.

Roosevelt doubled the number of
national monuments and started 51 bird sanctuaries.
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Statement of Inquiry: People have experiences and obstacles placed in front of them. These moments create who we are,
whether the experience is positive or negative.
 Taft Angers Progressives

Taft thought Roosevelt
was
constitutionally allowed


Taft administration
antitrust lawsuit as
Roosevelt had, Progressive were
.
Payne-Aldrich Tariff of 1909

This tariff reduced some rated on
raised others.

Progressive wanted tariffs to be lowers, in order to lower
.

Mad at Taft, Roosevelt decided to run for president again in 1912.

Roosevelt and his followers formed the

It was nicknamed the
.
Party because Roosevelt said he
was “as strong as a moose.

Woodrow Wilson won the
by a wide margin
 Wilson’s Reforms

Wilson backed the
.

This act also introduced a version of the modern income tax

16th Amendment-
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Statement of Inquiry: People have experiences and obstacles placed in front of them. These moments create who we are,
whether the experience is positive or negative.

President Wilson next addressed banking reform
with the 1913

This law created a national backing system
called the

The Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914-

Federal Trade Commission, had the power to
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Statement of Inquiry: People have experiences and obstacles placed in front of them. These moments create who we are,
whether the experience is positive or negative.
 Extension Activity:
1. Name ONE accomplishment for each Progressive President
a. Teddy Roosevelt-
b. William Taft-
c. Woodrow Wilson-
2. Define Conservation-
3. Why did many Americans support conservation?
4. Fill in blank (Hint- persons names or title)
a.
- President of the U.S. wanted laws for safe meat, food,
medicine, and worked for conservation
b.
- wanted to improve the economic, social, political
conditions of America. Some of the things they fought for was safety standards in the work place,
greater rights for women, African Americans, and children
c.
- fought against discrimination, help start the NAACP,
worked for equal rights for African Americas
d.
- Jacob Riss, Ida Tarbell, and Upton Sinclair are
examples of this
5. Explain each of the Progressive Amendments (see page 683)
a. 16th Amendmentb. 17th Amendmentc. 18th Amendmentd. 19th Amendment-