Word Splash

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Word Splash

• Make a sentence out of the following words.
• Muckraker(s), Progressive Era, Upton Sinclair,
  Big Business
• Three Minutes.GO!

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Picture Analysis

• Use the Worksheet to answer the questions

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Take Aways

• Assassination of McKinley
• Roosevelt- The True Progressive
• TR and Big Business

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Progressives in the White House 22-3
TR American Lion
http//www.youtube.com/watch?v6GKuj_QP3S0
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Writing Prompt

• Who is your favorite super hero?
• What is their super power?
• Why is this person your favorite?
• Write a minimum of 5 lines please.

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T.R.s Legacy

• What do you think T.R.s legacy will be?

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Assassination of McKinley

• Shot by an anarchist named Leon Czolgolsz
  (Chal-gosh).
• Teddy Roosevelt took the presidency on September
  14, 1901.

• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vYvBIkpCJuRU

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T.R. and BIG Business

• Believed in good trusts and bad trusts
• Bad Trust- unfair, takes advantage of American
  public
• T.R. the Trustbuster
• someone who wants to destroy all trusts
• T.R. just wanted to regulate them.

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T.R. and BIG Business

• Began to crack down on Big Business
• Railroads main target!
• Broke up monopolies and trusts
• Gained support from laborers and working class

James J. Hill
E.H. Harriman
Rockefeller
J.P. Morgan
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Stop and Think

• How did Teddy Roosevelt become president?
• How did he handle big business and trusts?

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Square Deal

• Everyone should have a fair opportunity to
  succeed
• Farmers, Consumers, Workers, Owners

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Pure Food and Drug Act

• T.R. shocked by reading The Jungle
• Officials inspected meat packing plants
• Passed in 1906
• Must list all ingredients on packaging
• Must end all false advertising of food

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Conservation

• Believed in conservation of land
• Loved outdoors
• Created national parks
• Protected against deforestation

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Homework

• Word Splash
• Create ONE sentence using ALL of the following
  words
• Teddy Roosevelt, Progressive(s), Trustbuster, Big
  Business, Square Deal.

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Other Major Accomplishments for TR

• Big Stick Diplomacy- Speak softly, but carry a
  big stick. - TR
• The Great White Fleet- U.S. Navy
• Toured the world to Show Off superior Navy.

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The Great White Fleet
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Other Major Accomplishments for TR

• The Panama Canal
• Passageway between the Atlantic and Pacific
  Ocean.
• It was NOT completed until after TRs presidency,
  but began during it.

http//www.youtube.com/watch?v-uPCQy32tGg
http//www.youtube.com/watch?vlzJZ6U5kkbo
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The Panama Canal
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Homework

• Of Teddy Roosevelts accomplishments, choose two
  and explain why you think they are the two most
  important.
• Trustbusting, the square deal (be specific),
  conservation, the panama canal, the great white
  fleet
• Write a minimum of 8 lines total and underline
  the two choices in your paragraph!

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Warm Up

• Get up and stand in front of TRs accomplishment
  that you think was most important
• Be ready to defend your choice!
• GO!

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Taft and the Progressives

• TR wanted Taft to replace him.
• Taft was a Progressive.
• Very different personality than
• TR

William Howard Taft
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Opinion Splits on Taft

• Taft supported many of TRs ideas
• graduated income, safety laws for miners, 8 hour
  work day, child labor laws.
• However
• Lost a lot of support with the Payne-Aldrich
  Tariff.
• Raised taxes

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Taft losses support

• Ballinger-Pinchot affair
• Went against Teddys conservation ideas
• Because of this, Roosevelt and Taft were no
  longer friends

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Stop and Think

• How was Taft different from Roosevelt?
• Why did he and TR have a falling out?

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1912 A Three Way Election

• Roosevelt ran for President again.
• Represented the Bull Moose Party
• Taft represented the Republican party.
• Woodrow Wilson would represent the Democratic
  Party.

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Woodrow Wilson

• Wilson was a Progressive,
• Represented the Democratic Party
• Wilson would go on to beat out Taft in 1912

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New Freedom

• Wilsons policies
• Continued to break up trusts.
• Believed in competitive business.
• New Freedom
• Supported lowering taxes and increasing foreign
  trade

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Wilsons Accomplishments

• Federal Reserve Act- 3 tiered banking system
• 1st level- Federal Reserve Board ran the system
• 2nd level- 12 Federal Reserve Banks serve as
  banks for other banks
• 3rd level- smaller private banks- could borrow
  from 2nd level. Offered affordable banking

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Wrap Up

• How is Wilson different from both TR and Taft?
• Explain two policies/accomplishments of Wilson.