Suffrage

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Suffrage

• National American Womens Suffrage Association
  (NAWSA)
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Susan B. Anthony
• Carrie Chapman Catt
• Western States 1st to grant women right to vote
• National Womens Party
• Alice Paul
• 1920 19th Amendment

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony
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Suffragist promoting a march, 1912
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Anti Suffragist
Who opposed womens right to vote?
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National Reform

• Progressives sought to increase their influence
  in national politics
• Some problems needed national solution
• Establishment of both parties leery of reformers
• National Progressive leadership emerged from the
  executive branch
• Republican Theodore Roosevelt
• Democrat Woodrow Wilson

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McKinley-Roosevelt
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Theodore Roosevelt

• Cowboy, soldier, explorer, scientist--and
  president by the age of 42. But behind the
  success was a man haunted by tragedy.

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T.R. Biography

• TR is born into a wealthy New York family (1858)
  that has a strong sense of social justice.
• He fights his severe asthma through a strenuous
  exercise program.
• He becomes New York State assemblyman.
• Tragedy strikes with the untimely deaths of his
  beloved first wife and his mother.
• To escape his grief, he flees to the Dakota
  Badlands for the rigors of ranch life.
• Soldier in the Spanish American War
• When he returns, his political career flourishes
  he eventually becomes William McKinley's Vice
  President.

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• TR uses the presidency to advance his agenda of
  social reform.
• TR is just 46 years old when he is inaugurated as
  president.
• He builds the Panama Canal,
• wins the Nobel Prize for Peace, and
• combatively introduces widesweeping social
  reforms. (1906 Food and Drug act)
• As his presidency draws to a close, TR names his
  best friend, Secretary of War William Howard
  Taft, as his successor. Taft wins the 1908
  election.

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T.R. Firsts

• 1901 Invites Booker T. Washington to the White
  House for dinner
• Roosevelt makes the first ever trip abroad by a
  sitting U.S. president, visiting Central America
  to observe construction of the Panama Canal.
• Despite protests from Congress, President
  Roosevelt sets aside 16 million acres of new
  forest preserves with a presidential
  proclamation.
• Departs for African Safari at the end of his
  presidential term

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Other Progressive Reforms

• Interstate Commerce Commission
• Hepburn Act (1906)
• Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)
• Meat Inspection Act (1906)

Meat Packing Plant, Chicago, Ill
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Taft Presidency

• Roosevelt thought Taft an ideal successor
• Taft
• Not adept at politics
• More conservative than Roosevelt
• Election of 1908
• William Howard Taft
• William Jennings Bryan

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The Return of T.R.

• T.R. challenges Taft for presidency in 1912
• Taft wins Republican nomination
• T.R. starts Bull Moose Party
• Split in R- ticket gives W.Wilson the presidency