Progressivism Presidents
By: Anthony Roberts, Bobby Henderson
President Roosevelt
Square deal
- Described the progressive reform
- Became president in 1902
Bully Pulpit
- Influence news media
- Shape legislation
-Trust
- Companies that control all of a particular good or service
William Taft
- Did not lower the Tariffs
- Appointed pro-big business, borderline corrupt Secretary of Interior, Richard Ballinger
- U.S. Steel suit in Oct.27,1911
- TR organizied a monopoly with US steel to help during an economic receesion in 1907
- TAFT charged them with a lawsuit and said the monopoly was illegal.
Woodrow Wilson
-Federal Trade Act
- Set up Federal Trade Commission with power to investigate both possible legal violations by corporations and unfair business practices
- Had power to issue orders to "Cease and Desist" unfair practices
- Strengthenedthe Sherman Antitrust Act by declaring certain business practices illegal
- Freed labor unions and farm organizations from antitrust
- Prohibited most injunctions against strikers
- Substantially reduced tariff rates for the first time since the Civil War
- Legalized a federal income tax