Progressivism under Taft and Wilson

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Progressivism under Taft and Wilson

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Tafts Presidency
"Politics Makes me Sick"
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• Conflict over ________
• Reductions and additions
• Compromise Payne-Aldrich Tariff
• The Ballinger-_______ Affair
• Sec. of Interior, Richard Ballinger vs. Head of
  the U.S. Forest Service, Gifford Pinchot
• Should land be
• protected or should
• businesses have free
• reign to develop?

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Turmoil in the Republican Party

• Attack on the _____ _____
• Break up the Old Guard Rules Committee
• Resolution the House would appoint the ______
  ________, and the _________ could not serve on it
• Split in the ____________ Party

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• The Midterm Election of 1910
• The return of _____
• New __________ business regulations, welfare,
  protection of women and children, new taxes,
  voting reform
• The Presidential Election of 1912
• Candidates
• Theodore Roosevelt, _______ ________ Party
• William Taft, Republican
• Woodrow Wilson, Democrat
• Eugene V. Debs, Socialist

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President Wilsons Policies (28th)

• Major Duties
• Offer major __________ to Congress
• Promote his legislation __________
• See that the legislation was ________
• Tariffs and Taxes
• _______ Tariffs from 40 to 25
• Created the ________ ________

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• Attacking the Trusts
• ________ Antitrust Act
• Listed Specific _________ companies were not
  allowed to do
• Such as. . .the use of holding companies and
  ______ ________
• Federal ________ _____________
• Given power to end unfair business tactics
• Federal __________ System
• _____ Banking districts set up to attempt to
  prevent economic ______________

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The Federal Reserve System
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The Limits of Progressivism

• Focused on _________ Issues, but failed to help
  those in other areas
• Little aid was given to tenant and migrant
  farmers and ___________ workers
• Most Progressives supported_________ limits and
  ________ tests for citizenship
• Social justice reforms
• No end to ______ _______ laws
• No womens _________
• Americas new focus Staying out of _______