Taft's 1912 Disaster

Taft’s 1912 Disaster

            After Roosevelt won the election in 1904 he told the whole nation that he would not rerun for president in the next election. Therefore this left an opening for William Howard Taft. He easily took the election for another democrat win.

            After he was elected Taft did not use Roosevelt’s bully pulpit. Taft said he was campaigning for lowering tariffs. But this soon ended when he signed the Payne-Aldrich Tariff. This act angered people of progressivism who believed that Taft turned his back on them. They therefore did not support him on the next election.

            After his mistakes in presidency, Taft was then being worried about his next election in 1912. He then directed his attention on Roosevelt and tried to bring him down. Roosevelt therefore responded and began a political fight between the two. But there was one man hiding in the shadow. Woodrow Wilson came up from behind them and one the election of 1912. By using his famous saying, “Don’t interfere when your enemy is destroying himself”  he won it easily. His platform was refusing woman suffrage, lowering tariffs, and supported small businesses. So Wilson won the election of 1912   

Caring for Nature

Caring for Nature

Before Roosevelt became the president the federal government cared nothing about the environment. That soon ended in 1902 when Roosevelt established the Newlands Reclamation Act. This act authorized the use of federal funds from public land sales to pay for irrigation and land development projects.

With the help of a friend from his camping trip he set aside 148 million acres of forest reserves. He established 5 new national parks and 50 federal wildlife reservations. Roosevelt put experts in charge of the national parks.

A man named Gifford Pinchot who is a professional conservationist told Roosevelt that in order to keep grazing lands and forest conserved they had to keep large tracts of federal land away from private sales.   

Truth of Food



Truth of Food

            After dealing with strikes and railroads, Roosevelt is facing another problem. The people are dying of murders from gangs, jealousy, and revenge. But there is one murderer that he wasn’t aware of. Most of the people in America are dying of diseases, unknowing sickness of fevers and have strange conditions.

Roosevelt’s number one suspect. Food. After reading disturbing stories from muckraker articles and books from workers of the factories he finally understood what was really going on in America’s food. Upton’s Sinclair’s book “the Jungle” officially exploded Roosevelt’s mind.

            Soon after making up his mind, in 1906 he issued the Meat Inspection Pact. This dictated strict cleanliness requirements for meatpacker and created a federal meat inspection program. This program inspected the factories ever so often in order to keep the factories clean.

            Then his second problem came around. People were lying to the citizens or what they were calling “improving the truth” about their products being able to cure many things. They made things like medicines that help baldness and even cures to cancer. Almost immediately after hearing this, Roosevelt ordered the Pure Food and Drug Act. This halted the sale of contaminated food and medicines, and called for truth in labeling   

Populism vs. Progressivism

Populism vs. Progressivism

This country needs to come to an agreement on something to end this horrible terror that is going on in America. These few articles are about the problems and huge things going on in America from the 1890's to the 1920's (or the roaring twenties). Things need to be said that the public needs to read and know. We are amid a crisis and need to know what is going on in their country. We need to act and come to an understanding of each other and feelings.

 

Money or lives

Money or Lives

Being the nations manager Roosevelt had to resolve and prevent conflict between different groups and their interests. This was until the coal stike hit. The United Mine Workers Union had caled a strike of miners who demanded higher wages. As the months go by the price of coal started to go way up. With winter coming soon the people of america are becoming very worried. They are afraid they will go without heat and freeze to death.

Roosevelt urged these workers to go back to work, to accept arbitration with winter coming fast. The owners of these mines refused and thus the miners continued to strike until they met their demands. Teddy Roosevelt therefore told the owners if they didn't do what they said they would have the military take over the mine. Almost immedietly after this happened, the owners agreed to accept the miners terms.  

The bully of the year

              Following the assassination of President McKinley, the vice president has taken the job. Theodore Roosevelt is the new president of our nation. This rough riding president from the Spanish American War is now the youngest president in our nation. This president has a few ideas for this nation in order for it to be a more perfect union.

              His Presidency is mainly running off of something he calls a "bully pulpit" so he can influence ideas. Roosevelt is now taking out most of the trust in the railroad companies in order to make things safe for the American public. Men named E.H. Harriman, James J. Hill and J.P. Morgan fought over the Burlington Railroads. They soon had control over all the rail roads and their prices. Therefore prices are shooting up way high for the farmers trying to transport their goods. Once Roosevelt had heard about this he were forced them to disband their trust.  



Sexist or Not?

            Women are putting out a large cry. They want suffrage, or a right to vote. For 40 years they were wanting equal rights as men. Up till 1920 only the men were able to vote, or put in a vote for their wives.

            In 1890, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton as leaders forms the National American Woman Suffrage (NAWS) is the woman who was arrested in 1872. In 1895 Stanton publishes the women’s Bible telling people they have a right to vote.

 Books were written to tell this nation that women aren’t just toys. The famous book The yellow wallpaper was written saying that the treatment of rest was a wrong way to go in order to help women relax. Many doctor’s ignored it at first. But then they started to try different reasons to help women. Finally in 1920, on August 26 the 19^th amendment was passed to let women vote in their nation.