Unit 2: Moving to the World Stage - America from 1900 to
1940 |
We will cover
these topics in class in this order:
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1901-1904,
1904-1908 Theodore Roosevelt – Known for Square Deal and in 1912 for the New
Nationalism
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1908-1912 William
Howard Taft
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1912-1916,
1916-1920 Woodrow Wilson – Known for the
New Freedom
How their
elections shift and reveal Progressivism AND:
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Conservation
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Race – African
Americans (reminder: Supreme Court) and—as an early 1900s term—immigration
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Women (reminder:
Supreme Court) and the argument their voting could block the votes above
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T. Roosevelt
- Background on his view of obligation of government and big business/big
monopoly
- Square Deal (anthracite coal strike)
- and the Supreme Court (example of the Lochner case)
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In Taft’s term
- Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
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Wilson
- Ludlow Massacre
- Adamson Act
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Constitution – 16th
(1909, 1912) and 17th (1912, 1913) amendments
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T. Roosevelt
- Trusts and the Supreme Court (example of the Northern Securities case)
- FDA, US Agriculture Department
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Taft
- Tariff shift
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Wilson
- Trusts and the FTC
- Federal Reserve Act
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T. Roosevelt
- Latin America – Panama Canal, Roosevelt Corollary
- Far East – spheres of influence and Japan
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Taft’s term
- Attempted - Dollar Diplomacy – Latin America and Far East
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Wilson (until
World War I dominates) – Latin America (Pancho Villa; Vera Cruz)
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