Progressive Era

What did Roosevelt do as a president that others did not do?

* Progressive accomplishments involve labor and businesses. goal was eliminate corruption in government by exposing and undercutting political machines and their bosses and establishing further means of direct democracy.**

* William Howard Taft and Woodrow Wilson were a part of the progressive movement**

* led Congress and American public toward new reforms and a strong foreign policy

* solved many international problems

* representative of all the people, including farmers, laborers, white collar workers, and businessmen

* was focused on bringing big business under stronger regulation so that he could effectively serve all the people he represented

* steered the United States more actively into world politics

* skill in foreign policy. Roosevelt helped solve disputes over Venezuela, the Dominican Republic, and Morocco

* proponent of the "New Nationalist" variety of Progressivism

* Roosevelt actually went after fewer monopolies than his successor, William Howard Taft

* Roosevelt became increasingly disenchanted with William Howard Taft

* Democrat Woodrow Wilson pledged to destroy the trusts altogether in order to restore competition to the marketplace

* pushed executive powers to new limits, arguing that the rise of industrial capitalism had rendered limited government obsolete

* took on the captains of industry and argued for greater government control over the economy

* pushed through legislation that gave the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) new powers to set railroad rates, laying the foundation for the modern administrative state

* he presided over the birth of the conservation movement

* built up the Navy and sent it around the world.

* “Square Deal” that would address his primary concerns for the era—the three C’s: control of corporations, consumer protection, and conservation.

* After the square deal proved to be...