Standard: 7.3- Recognize the progress of political and social
reform in America during this era.
Essential Question: What was Wilson’s New Freedom
reform plan?
MORNING WORK
AUGUST 22, 2016
1 ST P E R I O D
AGENDA
Write the questions
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Morning Work
1. What was the
Hepburn Act?
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Lecture: Taft and
Wilson
2. Who wrote The
Jungle?
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Create 1912
campaign brochure
MORNING WORK
AUGUST 22, 2016
3 RD/ 4 TH P E R I O D
AGENDA
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1. What was the
Hepburn Act?
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Lecture: Taft and
Wilson
2. Who wrote The
Jungle?
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Primary Source: TN
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ELECTION 1908
REPUBLICAN: WILLIAM
TAF T *
D E M O C R AT: W I L L I A M
JENNINGS BRYAN
ROOSEVELT SUPPORTS TAFT
TAFT BECOMES PRESIDENT
PROGRESSIVISM UNDER TAFT
 Taft’s administration- 16th Amendment
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
Income tax
Taft supported other progressive measures: safety
codes for mines/railroads & the creation of the Federal
Children’s Bureau.
TROUBLE IN TAFT’S PRESIDENCY
TA R I F F T R O U B L E
 Taft signed the Payne-
Aldrich Tariff into law.
 Progressives were
outraged.
C O N S E R V AT I O N T R O U B L E
 1910: Richard Ballinger allowed
business leaders to illegally buy
millions of acres of protected land in
Alaska.
 Gifford Pinchot accused Ballinger.
Taft fired Pinchot, not Ballinger.
 Roosevelt refused to support
Taft.
BALLINGER-PINCHOT
B A L L I N G E R : S E C R E TA RY O F
INTERIOR
P I N C H OT: H E A D O F
U.S. FORESTRY
ELECTION 1912
Bull Moose: Roosevelt
Republican: Taft
Democrat: Wilson*
TEDDY ROOSEVELT AND BULL MOOSE
 New Nationalism
 Woman suffrage, 8-hour workday, prohibition of child labor, and
minimum wage standards for working women.
WILSON’S NEW FREEDOM
 Wilson’s New Freedom:
tariff reductions
 banking reform
 and stronger antitrust legislation

 Underwood Tariff Act
October 1913
 Reduced tariffs to their lowest in 50 years
 graduated income tax
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BANKING REFORM
 Federal Reserve Act
Passed in 1913
 Created a central fund from which banks could borrow to prevent
collapse during a financial panic.
 Created a three-tier banking system

1.
2.
3.
At the top was the Federal Reserve Board, a group of officials appointed
by the president and charged with running the system.
In this level, 12 Federal Reserve banks served other banks instead of
individuals.
On the last level, private banks served people and borrowed from the
Federal Reserve as needed.
FEDERAL RESERVE ACT
Federal Reserve
Board Members
12 Federal Reserve
Banks- served banks
Private Banks- served people
STRONGER ANTITRUST LAWS
C L AY TO N A N T I T R U ST
ACT
THE FEDERAL TRADE
COMMISSION (FTC)
 Passed in 1914
 Passed in 1915
 Replaced the
 Enforced antitrust laws
Sherman Antitrust
Act
 Created a government
agency to provide
regulatory oversight over
business activity
WOMEN GAIN THE VOTE
 National Woman’s Party (1916)

constitutional amendment giving women the vote.
 19th Amendment: granted women right to vote- ratified in
1920
AMENDMENT RATIFIED IN TN
FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 2015
Test
MORNING WORK
Write the questions
1. What was the
Hepburn Act?
2. Who wrote The
Jungle?
AUGUST 29 , 2013
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Morning Work
Lecture: Taft and Wilson
Women Suffrage Map
Jeopardy
TEST: Friday
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Progressivism
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Women and Public Life
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Theodore Roosevelt’s Square Deal
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Taft and Wilson
MORNING WORK
WRITE QUESTIONS
1. What was the
Ballinger-Pinchot
Affair?
2. What is the 16th
Amendment?
FEBRUARY 1, 2012
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Morning Work
Lecture: Taft and
Wilson
Map: Women
Suffrage
Jeopardy
TEST: THURSDAY
MORNING WORK
Write the questions
1. What was Wilson’s
New Freedom?
2. What was the
Underwood Tariff Act?
3. What was the goal of
the Federal Reserve
Act?
Morning Work
Lecture: Taft and Wilson
Jeopardy
TEST:FRIDAY!!