More of the Crazy Man Roosevelt

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Chapter 29

• More of the Crazy Man - Roosevelt

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The Progressive Movement

• Began during the turmoil of the Reconstruction
  Era.
• The Progressives wanted change and reform.
• Writing and Literature created a lot of the
  desire for change Analysts and Activists.
• Jacob A. Riis How the Other Half Lives

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Muckrakers

• Coined by Roosevelt after a character in
  Pilgrim's Progress, the muckrakers exposed the
  evils of society, industry, politics, and
  business in their writing.
• Lincoln Steffens The Shame of the Cities
• Ida Tarbells expose on Standard Oil
• Upton Sinclairs The Jungle

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Politics

• Robert La Follette and the Wisconsin reforms.
• Direct Election of Senators
• Referendum approval of laws by citizens
• Initiative citizens create the legislation
• Recall remove elected officials
• Settlement Houses, Womens Clubs, Womens Trade
  Union, Consumers League.
• Muller v Oregon

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• Womens Christian Temperance Union and the
  Anti-Saloon League battle alcohol abuse until
  Prohibition in 1919. 18th Amendment
• TRs Square Deal Control of Corporations,
  Consumer Protection, and Conservation.

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The TrustBuster

• Teddy attack the Trusts and the interests with
  vigor.
• 1902 Northern Securities
• Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug
  Act of 1906.
• Gifford Pinchot heads Teddys new Forest Service.
• John Muir runs The Sierra Club an
  environmentally friendly group.

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Teddy Leaves

• His 1904 election promise was no third term. He
  handed the reigns to longtime political friend
  William Howard Taft.
• Taft replace the Big Stick with Dollar
  Diplomacy and encouraged investment of US capital
  in foreign markets.

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Taft and the Nomination
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What Taft did not have!

• Taft did not have the personality Teddy did and
  couldnt relate to the public.
• He shot himself in the foot many times.
• Taft attacked the US Steel Trust which Teddy had
  help Morgan secure.
• Taft signed a Tariff reduction Bill which
  contradicted campaign promises.
• In 1912 Roosevelt comes back to claim what was
  once his!