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Title: Woodrow Wilson and the New Freedom


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Woodrow Wilson and the New Freedom
  • Section 6.2

2
Agenda for Today
  • Presentations
  • D.W. Griffith
  • The Panama Canal
  • 6.2 Slide Show
  • Homework
  • Read 6.2
  • Unit Test on Progressive Era this week (Wednesday)

3
ObjectivesAt the end of this lesson you should
be able to
  • Identify the 4 major candidate and their
    political parties of the election of 1912
  • List the unusual background of Thomas Woodrow
    Wilson
  • Outline the major ideas in Wilsons New Freedom
    platform
  • Outline the major ideas in Roosevelts New
    Nationalism platform
  • Use political cartoons to better understand the
    political issues of 1912

4
What does the cartoon imply about Roosevelts
power?About Tafts power?
  • Time 1908
  • The Important Introduction

5
Taft Clip
6
Who was Woodrow Wilson?
  • Religious
  • Learning Disability
  • PHD from John Hopkins
  • Great speaking ability
  • An elitist
  • Governor of NJ
  • Independent of political machine
  • Reformed states government
  • Model of progressive reform

7
Wilson
8
Who was Eugene V. Debs?
  • Socialist candidate
  • Leader of American Railway Union
  • Pullman Strike (1894)
  • Called for
  • collective (social) ownership of factories,
    mines, and businesses
  • Completely reject capitalism
  • For the worker and the little guy

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Who was William Howard Taft?
  • Incumbent
  • The current office holder
  • Hand picked by TR
  • Disliked being president
  • Viewed by republican progressives as too
    conservative
  • Wanted to be supreme court justice

11
Who was Theodore Roosevelt?
  • Returned from African safari trip disappointed
    (with Taft)
  • Tried to win Republican nomination but lost
  • Joined Progressive party
  • AKA Bull Moose Party
  • Divided the republican party

12
Who does the moose, elephant, and donkey
represent?What does the cartoon suggest about
the election? Time Election of 1912
13
  • Time Election of 1912
  • Issue Democratic Primary
  • Question What does the cartoon suggest about the
    selection of the Democratic candidate?

14
Who was Woodrow Wilson?
  • Democratic party
  • Experience included
  • President of Princeton University
  • Governor of New Jersey
  • Considered the safe candidate by the political
    machine

15
Describe New Nationalism
Describe New Freedom.
  • Wilson
  • Elimination of all monopolies
  • Freedom to all small companies and businesses
  • drastic tariff reduction
  • banking reform
  • more strict on antitrust laws
  • Roosevelt
  • Elimination of bad monopolies, keep good ones
  • End child labor
  • Women Suffrage
  • Workmans compensation
  • Federal Trade Commission (to regulate
    trade/business)
  • Minimum wage/suffrage for women
  • Initiative, referendum, and recall

16
  • Time Election of 1912
  • Question What is the cartoon suggesting about TR?

17
Political Spectrum
  • Wilson
  • Teddy
  • Taft
  • Debs
  • 27
  • 6
  • 41
  • 23
  • Theodore Roosevelt split the Republican party,
    grouping in the Progressive Party, and Taft was
    a Republican
  • Taft was defeated by Roosevelt
  • However, Roosevelt did not snatch the winning of
    many Democratic progressives away from Woodrow
    Wilson

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ELECTORAL VOTES
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What is the significance of the election of 1912?
Wilson
  • -Election is the high water mark of the
    progressive movement
  • All candidates were progressive (to some degree)
    all candidates did not question whether or not
    society needed
  • reform, but more of how to reform.
  • -New Nationalism vs. New Freedom
  • Winner Woodrow Wilson

Roosevelt
Taft
Debs
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Election of 1912
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