Реферат: Progressivism Movements Essay Research Paper I The

Department of Labor. 12. Women?s Bureau was also established in 1920. 13. Mary

Anderson and Julia Lathrop were the first women Bureau heads in the federal

government. 14. Prohibition was thought to protect society from poverty and

violence associated with drinking. 15. Women?s support for prohibition caused

brewery and liquor interests to oppose women?s suffrage. 16. Prohibition

became the 18th amendment in 1919 until its repeal in 1933. III. Progressivism:

Its Impact on National Politics A. The Presidency After Roosevelt 1. Teddy

Roosevelt hand picked William Howard Taft as the next Republican presidential

nominee. 2. On the Democratic Side William Jennings Bryan also ran (for the

third time) 3. Taft won the election and promised to carry on the progressive

movement. 4. A rebel movement arose because Taft wouldn?t lower the tariffs on

imports. 5. Gifford Pinchot opposed Taft?s agreement to allow several million

acres of Alaskan public lands that had rich deposits of coal be sold by Richard

A. Ballinger. Pinchot was fired. 6. Upset House Republicans rebelled against

Taft and joined Democrats in initiating an investigation into Ballinger?s

actions-he eventually resigned. 7. Rebels took action against the Republican old

guard who blocked much reform legislation. 8. Rebels changed the committee?s

membership by making it elective and excluding the powerful. House Speaker,

Joseph Cannon, a republican reform opponent. 9. Teddy Roosevelt began speaking

out about the need for more federal regulations of business, welfare

legislation, and progressive reforms such as stronger work place protections for

women and children, income and inheritance taxes, direct primaries, and the

initiative , referendum, and recall. This was called New Nationalism. 10. Taft

supported the Mahn-Elkins Act(1910) that placed telephone and telegraph rates

under control of the Interstate Commerce Commission rather than big business. B.

The Election of 1912 1. The progressive party was formed after Teddy

Roosevelt?s supporters walked out of the RNC when Taft accused Teddy Roosevelt

of fraud. They became known as the Bull Moose Party. 2. Bull Moose Party?s

platform included tariff reduction, women suffrage, more regulation of business,