logging in or signing up Taft and Wilson's Progressive Records dficker Download Post to : URL : Related Presentations : Share Add to Flag Embed Email Send to Blogs and Networks Add to Channel Uploaded from authorPOINT lite Insert YouTube videos in PowerPont slides with aS Desktop Copy embed code: (To copy code, click on the text box) Embed: URL: Thumbnail: WordPress Embed Customize Embed The presentation is successfully added In Your Favorites. Views: 279 Category: Entertainment License: All Rights Reserved Like it (0) Dislike it (0) Added: October 21, 2008 This Presentation is Public Favorites: 0 Presentation Description No description available. Comments Posting comment... Premium member Presentation Transcript Taft and Wilson : Taft and Wilson Continuing the Progressive Plan William Howard Taft : William Howard Taft Part One A/V Of Taft : A/V Of Taft Taft Speech Taft Video Taft Becomes President : Taft Becomes President TR’s Secretary of War Hand-picked Far less popular More cautious Wanted to continue TR’s Progressivism Difficulty with Conservatives Taft’s Record : Taft’s Record 90 Anti-Trust cases (more than TR!) Standard Oil busted Set aside more public lands than TR Income Tax But…supported higher tariffs (Payne-Aldrich tariff)—alienated progressives And…fired US Forest service head after he criticized Sec. of Interior 1912 Election : 1912 Election Friends Again! : Friends Again! Part Two : Part Two Woodrow Wilson A/V Of Wilson : A/V Of Wilson Wilson Speech Wilson Video Wilson’s Legacy : Wilson’s Legacy Lowered tariffs (good for consumers—cheap foreign goods) Federal Reserve Act (we’ll talk about this later) Federal Trade Commission (truth in advertising & labels; monitored businesses—no monopolies) Clayton Act (further defined what an illegal trust was; unions were NOT) Worker’s compensation law Legacy of Progressivism : Legacy of Progressivism Lots of changes—used government to cure society’s ills Status of Women changed Workers’ lives improved Ignored race issue (Wilson—segregated the Federal Government) World War I ended the Progressive Era You do not have the permission to view this presentation. In order to view it, please contact the author of the presentation.
Taft and Wilson's Progressive Records dficker Download Post to : URL : Related Presentations : Share Add to Flag Embed Email Send to Blogs and Networks Add to Channel Uploaded from authorPOINT lite Insert YouTube videos in PowerPont slides with aS Desktop Copy embed code: (To copy code, click on the text box) Embed: URL: Thumbnail: WordPress Embed Customize Embed The presentation is successfully added In Your Favorites. Views: 279 Category: Entertainment License: All Rights Reserved Like it (0) Dislike it (0) Added: October 21, 2008 This Presentation is Public Favorites: 0 Presentation Description No description available. Comments Posting comment... Premium member Presentation Transcript Taft and Wilson : Taft and Wilson Continuing the Progressive Plan William Howard Taft : William Howard Taft Part One A/V Of Taft : A/V Of Taft Taft Speech Taft Video Taft Becomes President : Taft Becomes President TR’s Secretary of War Hand-picked Far less popular More cautious Wanted to continue TR’s Progressivism Difficulty with Conservatives Taft’s Record : Taft’s Record 90 Anti-Trust cases (more than TR!) Standard Oil busted Set aside more public lands than TR Income Tax But…supported higher tariffs (Payne-Aldrich tariff)—alienated progressives And…fired US Forest service head after he criticized Sec. of Interior 1912 Election : 1912 Election Friends Again! : Friends Again! Part Two : Part Two Woodrow Wilson A/V Of Wilson : A/V Of Wilson Wilson Speech Wilson Video Wilson’s Legacy : Wilson’s Legacy Lowered tariffs (good for consumers—cheap foreign goods) Federal Reserve Act (we’ll talk about this later) Federal Trade Commission (truth in advertising & labels; monitored businesses—no monopolies) Clayton Act (further defined what an illegal trust was; unions were NOT) Worker’s compensation law Legacy of Progressivism : Legacy of Progressivism Lots of changes—used government to cure society’s ills Status of Women changed Workers’ lives improved Ignored race issue (Wilson—segregated the Federal Government) World War I ended the Progressive Era