Presidents Wilson and Taft

1. Unit 7- The Progressive Era

2.  I. President William H. Taft (R-27th)
 A. Roosevelt’s Secretary of State, handpicked by
TR as his successor (1909)
 B. Busted over 90 trusts while in office

3.  C. Passed two amendment while in office:
 1. 16th Amendment- Federal income tax
 2. 17th Amendment- Popular election of US
Senators

4.  D. Taft did not continue some of Roosevelt’s
progressive reforms
 Roosevelt split the Republicans and formed
the progressive Bull Moose Party

5.  II. President Woodrow Wilson (D-28th)
 A. Ran as a Progressive
 B. Wilson’s New Freedom

6.  1. 18th Amendment- Prohibition
 2. 19th Amendment- women’s suffrage

7.  3. Important antitrust reforms
 a. Clayton Antitrust Act- Large companies
could not buy stock in others to form a
monopoly
 b. Federal Trade Commission (FTC)-
Watchdog agency looking for unfair
business practices

8.  III. Limits of Progressivism
 A. Like Roosevelt and Taft, Wilson did not fight
for Civil Rights
 1. He opposed federal anti-lynching laws
 2. D.C. became segregated for the first time
since Reconstruction

9.  B. Progressive Era ended because of US
involvement in WWI in 1917