Presidents from Theodore Roosevelt through Coolidge, 1901-1929

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Presidents from Theodore Roosevelt through Coolidge, 1901-1929 Debating the Issues in Pro and Con Primary Documents

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Francine Sanders Romero

Book Code: GR1388

ISBN: 0-313-31388-1

ISBN-13: 978-0-313-31388-2

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280 pages

Greenwood Press

Publication: 10/30/2001

List Price: $75.00 (UK Sterling Price: £41.95)

Availability: Print on demand

Media Type: Hardcover

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

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Series Title: The President's Position: Debating the Issues

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The material will appeal to students and keep them reading past their research needs. It offers a unique approach for developing critical thinking skills that teachers will find helpful in preparing assignments. History and government students will find this series both interesting and useful as they experience these aspects of the presidency. Highly Recommended. Starred Review.
—The Book Report September/October 2002

Description: Students will be able to debate the key political, social, and economic issues and initiatives of each President covered here by using this rich source of pro and con primary documents contemporary to the time. Carefully selected presidential statements and opposition statements on each major issue of the presidents' administrations, along with accompanying explanatory material, will help students to debate the issues and apply critical thinking skills to their understanding of U.S. history. This volume covers the Presidencies of Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, and Calvin Coolidge. The section on each president includes entries on 5-9 key issues of his administration, from enforcing anti-trust legislation at the beginning of Roosevelt's administration to arguments over the value of the Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact to outlaw war that closed the Coolidge era. Primary documents include presidential speeches, letters, memoirs and autobiographies, congressional speeches, Supreme Court decisions, statements by opposition groups, newspaper editorials, and comments from prominent private citizens. Students will be able to trace ongoing arguments over significant political, social and economic issues during the course of these five administrations that comprise the Progressive Era, the war years, and the postwar "return to normalcy," years that witnessed perhaps the greatest period of transformation in U.S. history. These presidents took varying positions on the increasingly activist role of government, the growing power of business, the issue of tariffs, the rights of workers, women, and children, the problems of minority groups, the question of immigration, the issue of isolationism or intervention abroad, and the growing concern over the environment. The section on each president features an introductory overview of the key issues of his administration, followed by an entry on each issue. Each entry contains an overview of the issue and discussion of the opposing viewpoints, followed by a statement from the president and the text of a document taking an opposing point of view. The section on each president concludes with suggested reading for further study. A timeline of the period puts all the issues in chronological context.

Table of Contents:

Preface
Introduction
Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1904)
Introduction
Regulation of Trusts
Anthracite Coal Strike
Panama Canal
Monroe Doctrine and Roosevelt Corollary
Railroad Regulation
Simplified Spelling
The Brownsville Episode
Conservation of Natural Resources
Woman Suffrage
Recommended Readings
William Howard Taft (1909-1913)
Introduction
Continuing the Conservation Agenda
Dollar Diplomacy
Judicial Recall
Trusts and the Sherman Act
Future of the Republican Party and the 1912 Election
Presidential Power
Recommended Readings
Woodrow Wilson (1913-1921)
Introduction
Tariff Reduction
Federal Reserve Act
Segregation in the Federal Government
U.S./Mexico Relations
Immigration Literacy Tests
Regulation of Child Labor
U.S. Neutrality in the World War
U.S. Entry into the World War
Versailles Treaty and the League of Nations
Recommended Readings
Warren G. Harding (1921-1923)
Introduction
Compensatory Treaty with Colombia
Racial Equality
Restoration of Tariffs
Washington Conference on the Limitations of Armament
The Soldiers Bonus
Prohibition
Recommended Readings
Calvin Coolidge (1923-1924)
Introduction
Income Tax Relief
National Origins Act
U.S. Intervention in Nicaragua
McNary-Haugen Bill
Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact
Recommended Readings
Bibliography
Index

LC Card Number: 2001023339

LCC Class: E176

Dewey Class: 320


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