Progressivism Homework

1. President Roosevelt had picked William Howard Taft, his successor, to run for presidency.

2. Teddy Roosevelt began to oppose Taft for the presidency in 1912 because Taft hardly expanded Roosevelt's reform, and he was also upsetting not only the conservationists but the progressives also. Taft signed the Payne- Aldrich Tariff which angered progressives thinking he abandoned progressivism. Then later on he appointed Richard A. Ballinger as his secretary, a man who opposed conversationists.

3. I think the some of the events that helped Woodrow Wilson win the election was one, he was staying out of the heat between Taft and Roosevelt who developed a hatred for one another. Another is that Wilson had offered something called "The New Freedom." It demanded strong antitrust legislation, banking reform, and reduced tariffs, this is something the people greatly favored.

4.To attack trusts and monopolies Wilson to give more freedom to average citizens, Wilson used the Clayton Antitrust Act, and the Federal Trade Commission. The Clayton Antitrust Act stopped corporations from acquiring the stock of another. (This would create a monopoly, therefor this was how he was attacking the monopolies.) Also under this act, strikes and boycotting became legal and injunctions against strikers became illegal. The Federal Trade Commission had the power to investigate possible violations of regulatory statutes, to require periodic reports from corporations, and to put an end to unfair business practices.

5. The Nineteenth Amendment granted women the right to vote.

6. America's entry into World War I distracted many Americans since this war demanded America's involvement. Their legislators allowed the push for reform to take a stop. Therefor the progressive era had come to an end.