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5.3: The Wilson Years (p. 232)

Essential Question: Can politics fix social problems?

Video: Poverty in America

1. Do you think social policies currently being debated in Congress, such as those related to food relief and

health care, can be compared to the progressive platforms of Roosevelt and Wilson?

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Choosing the Candidates

1. Which political party did Theodore Roosevelt agree to run with? _______________________________

2. Within the Republican party, who supported Taft? _____________________________________

a. Who supported Roosevelt? _____________________________________

3. Roosevelt ended up being a presidential candidate for which new party? _________________________

4. Which two candidates were progressives in the election of 1912?

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5. Which presidential candidate was from the Democratic party? _____________________________

Wilson Versus Roosevelt

1. How did Roosevelt want to control the power of large trusts?

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2. What is Roosevelt’s program called New Nationalism?

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3. What is Wilson’s program called New Freedom?

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 4. Who won the election of 1912? ___________________________________

Map: Presidential Election 1912:

The election of 1912 was the first presidential election in which all of the then 48 states participated.

1. In which two states did Taft win electoral votes?

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2. In what region did Roosevelt have the most electoral support?

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Wilson’s Reforms

1. What did Wilson do as the new Chief Executive?

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Income Taxes and the 16th Amendment

1. How does a direct tax work?

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2. How is an income tax also an indirect tax?

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3. What did the Supreme Court say about income tax law?

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4. What was the Constitutional amendment that progressives pushed for after the ruling from the Supreme

Court? Why?

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 5. What did President Wilson present to Congress?

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6. What is the Revenue Act of 1913 (Underwood-Simmons Act)?

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Reforming the Banks

1. What did Wilson do to restore public confidence in the banking system?

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2. What did the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 do?

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a. What is the Board allowed to do? __________________________________________________

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3. What would happen if the Federal Reserve sets interest rates low?

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Antitrust Action

1. Why did Congress create the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)? _______________________________

2. What power did the FTC have? __________________________________________________________

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3. What did the Clayton Antitrust Act in 1914 do?

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Regulating Big business

1. What did The Keating-Owen Child Labor Act (1916) do? _____________________________________

a. What did the Supreme Court declare this law? ____________________________________

2. What did the Adamson Act do? _________________________________________________________

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Progressivism’s Legacies and Limits

1. What did Wilson do to build upon Roosevelt’s foundation? ____________________________________

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New Roles for Government

1. How did both legal and public opinion shifted by the end of the Progressive Era? __________________

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The Limits of Progressivism

1. What was the limit to progressivism? _____________________________________________________

2. Who launched the Niagara Movement? When? _____________________________________________

3. What did Mary White Ovington study in 1908? _____________________________________________

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4. What does NAACP stand for? ___________________________________________________________

5. Who was Leo Frank and what happened to him? ____________________________________________

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6. What was the purpose of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL)? _________________________________

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