Download Name: ANSWER KEY Date: Mod: Each of you are now

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ANSWER KEY
Date:
Mod:
Each of you are now Presidential Historians. In your group, you will be researching and presenting information about the three
Progressive Era Presidents – Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson. In your group, pick a President. Then, take a Chromebook and begin
researching that man. After we complete our research, we will present our information to our groups, then to the larger class.
Years in Office
 1901 1909
Roosevelt
Political Party
 Republican
 Progressive /
Bull Moose
Progressive Successes of
Administration
 Conservation Laws
o National Park
System
 Square Deal
o Various progressive
reforms
o Solved and fixed
problems
o Meat Inspection
o Pure Food and Drug
Act
o Creation of the FDA
 Meat Inspection Act
o Cause: Upton
Sinclair writes The
Jungle
o Makes meat packing
industry safer
o Creates inspectors /
inspections
 Trust Buster
o Breaks up
Monopolies and
Progressive Failures of
Administration
 Civil Rights for African
Americans
o Non existent
 Sherman Anti-Trust Act
o Unable to slow
merger
movement
o Hard to enforce
 Genocide in RussoJapanese War
 Big Stick Policy
o American
involvement in
Latin / South
America
o Economic Unrest
o Political Failure
o Panama
o Civil Unrest
Taft
Years in Office
Political Party
 1909 1913
 Republican
Trusts
o Bans horizontal and
vertical integration
 Russo-Japanese War
o Russia & Japan
o Teddy wants to
keep US control
over Japanese
interests/economy
o Fought in Korea &
Manchuria
 Panama Canal Starts
Progressive Successes of
Administration
 Busted more trusts than
Roosevelt
o Breaks up Standard
Oil in 1911
(Rockefeller)
 Strengthens the Interstate
Commerce Commission
o Regulates trade &
commerce between
states
 Civil Service Reform
o Civil Service:
government
workers (state &
fed)
o Improvement in the
civil service
Progressive Failures of
Administration
 Prohibition
 Not popular
 Gets stuck in bathtubs
 Busted a lot of trusts
o Putting people
out of work
 Failed to lower tariffs
o Decreasing
foreign trade
 Anti-Conservationist
 Anti-Roosevelt
 Taft – Roosevelt
election splits and
weakens the
Republican Party
 Dollar Diplomacy
o Latin / South
Years in Office
 1913 1921
Wilson
Political Party
 Democrat
o Conduct /
requirements
o Tries to get rid of
corruption and
patronage
 Prohibition
o Improves morality
th
 16 Amendment
o Federal income tax
 Dollar Diplomacy
o Loans to other
countries that
assisted American
foreign policy goals
 Postal Service
o Development of the
modern Postal
Service
Progressive Successes of
Administration
 Federal Reserve
 Federal Trade Commission
o Investigates unfair
business practices
 Underwood-Simmons Act
o Reduces tariffs on
imports
(encouraging trade)
o Federal income tax
 Child Labor Laws
o Controlled child
America
Progressive Failures of
Administration
 Declared war (failed to
keep neutrality) 
WWI
 Failure of Prohibition
 Civil Rights (ignores
them)
o African
Americans
o Racial
discrimination
laws
labor
 8 hour work day for
Railroad Workers
o (((Knights of Labor)))
o Significance: RR
Workers are
generally New
Immigrants who
have the worst
working conditions
 Government loans to
farmers
o Significance:
farmers are
providing food to
the nation, and
these loans
encourage that
breadbasket
 WWI  “self
determination”
 Beginning of the Great
Depression – seeds are
laid with Wilson
Describe the following political parties. What did they believe in? Who was their major candidate during the Progressive Era?
Political Party
Major / Main Candidate
Teddy Roosevelt
Bull Moose /
Progressive Party
Summary of Political Beliefs
 Direct election of senators
 (white) women’s suffrage
 Tariff reduction
 Social welfare
 Big Stick policy
Woodrow Wilson
 Economic reform
 Increase tariffs
 “self determination”
Howard Taft
 Reducing monopolies (trust busting)
 Lower tariffs
 Dollar diplomacy – foreign policy
Democrat
Republican
(Teddy)
Eugene V Debs
Socialist
 Decreasing capitalism
o Socialism : economic / political / social equality
 Labor unions