February 2, 2015
Aim: How were the policies of Progressive Presidents
both similar and different?
• Do Now: Which reform made during the Progressive
era has the greatest impact on your life? Why?
Reform
Tenement
House Law
Description
Requires fire escapes, windows in each
room
Meat Inspection Enforces sanitary conditions in meatpacking
Act
plants
19th
Amendment
Gave women the right to vote
The Progressive Era: 1900-1920
• Primary goal: correct the political and
economic injustices that resulted from
industrialization.
The Progressive Presidents
• Theodore Roosevelt:
– The Square Deal: consumer protection,
conservation
– “Trust-Buster” – attacked only “bad” trusts
T.R. waving at the haters
The Progressive Presidents
• William H. Taft: T.R.’s VP, also a “trust-buster”
• Woodrow Wilson: “New Freedom” reforms
– Graduated income tax (16th Amendment)
– Clayton Antitrust Act (outlawed trusts)
– Federal Reserve Act (regulation of $$$ supply)
Task
• Each student will receive a reading on either
Theodore Roosevelt or Woodrow Wilson.
• Read and summarize your article in your
notes.
• Find a partner with the article you did not get.
• Partners teach each other about their
Progressive President and complete their
notes.
Task Part 2
• Each team must submit a venn diagram
comparing and contrasting Roosevelt and
Wilson.
Comparing the Progressive Presidents
Roosevelt
Wilson