THE PROGRESSIVE ERA 1900 1917
PROGRESSIVE POLITICS
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Woodrow Wilson’s domestic policy that called for tariff, business, and banking reforms
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Roosevelt’s progressive political policy that favored heavy government intervention in order to assure social justice
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Political party which, in the Election of 1912, supported public ownership of utilities and transportation systems, etc.
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Name given to Teddy Roosevelt’s domestic programs; included conservation of natural resources, control of corporations, and consumer protection
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Detailed explanation-1: -The New Freedom sought to achieve this vision by attacking what Wilson called the Triple Wall of Privilege-the tariff, the banks, and the trusts. Tariffs protected the large industrialists at the expense of small farmers. Wilson signed the Underwood-Simmons Act into law in 1913, which reduced tariff rates.
Detailed explanation-2: -Influenced by Louis Brandeis’s warnings about the “curse of bigness, ” Wilson offered a progressive vision calling for the use of government power to break up monopolies, curb corporate power in politics, promote economic competition, and restore a vibrant economy where small businesses and workers could thrive.
Detailed explanation-3: -Wilson focused first on tariff reform, pushing through Congress the Underwood-Simmons Act, which achieved the most significant reductions in rates since the Civil War. He argued that high tariffs created monopolies and hurt consumers, and his lower tariffs were especially popular in the South and West.