Reform Under Taft & WilsonThe Fattest President 6 Foot, 350 Pounds

Once got stuck in a Whitehouse bathtub

1st President to own a car andconverted the Whitehouse stables into a 4 car garage

Liked milk so much that he brought a cow to the Whitehouse

Taft Takes Office

1908 ElectionRepublican- William Taft

Democrat- Williams Bryan

Roosevelt backed Taft because he believed Taft had the same reform ideas

Because Roosevelt backed Taft, Taft wins

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Taft Angers the Progressives

Despite major reforms Taft lost the support Progressive Republicans

Tariff Bill, Conservation

Roosevelt, “I don’t think that under the Taft regime there has been a real appreciation of the needs of the

country.”

Roosevelt and the elections of 1910

Republican party was split between Roosevelt’s progressive republicans and Taft’s conservative republicans

As a result of this division, the republicans lost control of Congress to the Democrats

Roosevelt returns to politics

Disturbed by what Taft was doing to the republican party, Roosevelt decided to run again for presidency in 1912

Roosevelt ran under the Progressive Party also called the Bull Moose Party

Roosevelt said he felt fit as a Bull Moose to run again

• Teddy Roosevelt, who was president from 1901-1909, was shot by John Schrank while campaigned as the candidate of the new Progressive party on Oct. 14, 1912. His 50-page speech and glasses case slowed the bullet enough so that it entered his body, but did not penetrate the heart. Rather than go to the hospital, Roosevelt went on with the show. "I don't know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot; but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose," Roosevelt said. "The bullet is in me now, so that I cannot make a very long speech, but I will try my best."

• He spoke for 90 minutes.

• Later, doctors decided it would be too dangerous to remove the bullet -- so the former president carried it in his body for the rest of his life. The bullet is the shadowy shape on the lower left of this image.

1912 Election

Republicans- President Taft

Progressives (Former Rep.)- Roosevelt

Democrats- Woodrow Wilson

ResultsWilson 435 electoral votes 42%Roosevelt 88 electoral votes 27%Taft 8 electoral votes 23%

Do you think that The U.S. should have a viable 3rd party? What are the

positives and negatives to a 2 party vs. 3 party system?

Taft becomes chief Justice of the Supreme Court- 1925

Woodrow Wilson

Democrat

1913-1921

A Democratic Victory

Wilson’s campaign slogan , New Freedom, promised to help out small businesses “A return to an America where people were free of big business and gov.”

Tariff reduction, banking reform, anti-trust legislation

Clayton Antitrust Act, FTC, Federal Reserve.

• Clayton Antitrust Act—Clarified and extended the Sherman Antitrust Act.

• FTC—Federal Trade Commission—Enforced antitrust laws.Federal Reserve Act—Banking collapsed was common so Wilson created a national banking system that could borrow money to prevent collapse during financial panic.

19th Amendment

Ratified in 1920

Gave women full voting rights

Wyoming Territory was the first to give women the right to vote.

Why do you think it took woman so long to get the right to vote? Explain

your answer.

End of Progressivism

World War I (1914) brought an end to the progressive era

Reformers were more interested in the war and less devoted to reform movements