Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson

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At the dawning of the twentieth century, a group of Americans began to feel dissatisfied over the negative impacts of the technological boom in the late nineteenth century. The rapid changes in technology rapidly altered the lives of Americans and the group believed that society and the economy had a lot of catching up to do. Supporters of progressivism had different ideas about changes in education, business regulation, conservation, prohibition, women’s rights, and other important issues. Two presidents took a strong role in trying to make changes in these areas during the Progressive Movement. These two presidents, Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, were both part of the Progressive Movement, but they had different ideas about what should be accomplished in the United States and how to accomplish it.

One thing both presidents could agree on was that the current laws in America were not doing enough to control the uncontrolled reign of big businesses and that changes needed to be made quickly. As expressed by Woodrow Wilson (1913) in his book The New Freedom, “Our laws are still meant for business done by individuals; they have not been satisfactorily adjusted to business done by great combinations, and we have got to adjust them.” Roosevelt recognized that large businesses and the special interests that came with them had the ability to buy power in government and wanted to put a stop to it through regulation. In his speech on August 31, 1910 called “New Nationalism,” Roosevelt explained that the new special interests from businesses were no different than the special interests of cotton and slavery. Roosevelt’s solution to the big business problem was the creation of Bureau of Corporations in 1903 (Johnson, 1959, p. 571)...

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Johnson, A. M. (1959, Mar.). Theodore Roosevelt and the bureau of corporations. In The Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Vol. 45, No. 4, pp. 571-590. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/1888711

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Wilson, W. (1913). The old order changeth. In The new freedom: A call for the emancipation of the generous energies of a people (Chapter II). New York: Doubleday, Page & Company. Retrieved from http://www.gutenberg.org/files/ 14811/14811-h/14811-h.htm#I

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