Critical Changes Made by Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson During The Progressive Era

During the period of 1901-1921, Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson have made critical changes in which were beneficial to the development of the Progressive Era. The Progressive Era was a time where America began to develop through new innovations, organizations, and the industry as a whole. However, numerous individuals still faced difficulties, which included working in poor conditions with low wages in return. Women were also seeking rights to vote, but the administration was consisted of elites who had full control over the trusts, business, and monopolies. As a result, Progressive reformers worked to both expand democracy and hopefully improve the poor working conditions many individuals faced in the United States. Progressives felt the need to improve their lives and seemed ways to have more of an active role in the federal government, yet had trouble conquering the issues that consistently came upon them. President Theodore Roosevelt was one of the first presidents that urged for wide changes and his presidency had a large impact on the development of The Progressive Movement. Roosevelt was a man who was both a conservationist and an advocate for reforms. He was a president in favor of war and as a result, he worked to serve the nation in various manners. While he was in office, he was greatly affiliated with both conservationist and dynamic beliefs. Woodrow Wilson on the other hand had similar wants and ideas but he instead adopted an alternate approach to the solutions. The two made very different social and individual changes. Throughout the Progressive Movement, there were motives that went from the women’s suffrage movement to the destruction of the trusts.

Theodore Roosevelt was a great conservationist and he had a love and desire to safeguard the environment and wildlife; including forest preserves and mountain ranges. In Document 2, Roosevelt spent three nights in Yosemite with John Muir in 1903. Roosevelt liked John Muir’s viewpoints on the want to protect the wild areas. During this time, railroads played a big role in the Progressive Era, as they were widely used for transportation. In 1904, President Theodore Roosevelt made an effort to direct the industry. In that very year, the Northern Securities Case lead up to the Supreme Court, which in return decided that 1890 Sherman Antitrust Act had been disregarded by the railroads all over the northern tier of the United States. President Roosevelt felt disapproval towards the railroad monoplies yet he felt the opposite towards the railroad workers. In 1904, President Theodore Roosevelt became more notorious as a trust buster due to the Northern Securities Case that had been established. Theodore Roosevelt didn’t do much to help preserve black suffrage in the South in which gave blacks the right to vote over time. Then in October 1901, he welcomed Booker T. Washington to dine with him at the White House. This led to a debate early in his presidency which remained very controversial and significant. In Document 3, we can tell that Roosevelt and Washington talked about support arrangements in the South and there many accusations that were made in the South. In spite of the fact that he selected Blacks to some support positions in the South, he was commonly reluctant to take on the political conflicts necessary to win their arrangement. This specific incident corrupted his notoriety on racial issues.

Like President Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson likewise accepted that a president ought to effectively lead Congress. He vowed his pledge to a New Freedom to bring back states of free and reasonable challenge in the economy by attacking not only tariffs, but also banking, and trusts. In Document 4, Wilson quickly passed the Underwood Tariff once he got elected. This considerably brought tax rates down to cut consumer costs down. He contended that high tariffs made monopolies and hurt consumers, and his lower tariffs were particularly well known in the South and West. He organized an income tax to compensate for income and his next significant activity concerned banking reform. He proposed a national banking system that would be administered by a Federal Reserve Board. Following the Civil War, Democrats and Argarians needed a progressively adaptable money supply and arrangement of banking which would permit adjustments in the measure of money and credit accessible in the midst of economic expansion or crisis. Wilson’s New Freedom program was extremely fruitful however many individuals were as yet unsatisfied. A tremendous issue with dynamic changes was that they didn't think much about African Americans. Blacks were for the most part disregarded by dynamic presidents and failed to address isolation, and rather believed that different changes were increasingly essential to benefit society. In Document 7, we perceive how Black leader, W.E.B. DuBois felt about these specific viewpoints and he tried to decrease states of neediness and separation. His endeavors prompted the development of a few social liberties associations that gained some ground however didn't generally change a great part of the preference. As Blacks moved from the South toward the Northern urban communities, they had the option to improve their financial conditions by landing more jobs, however they still dealt with racial pressure and separation. In this document, DuBois acknowledges Wilson's detachment towards the unbearable positions Blacks were in, and advises that the dynamic changes had flopped in progressing social equality for Blacks, because they remained isolated. The Progressive Era was a period of expansion and activism for female activists, and Woodrow Wilson likewise affected the Woman Suffrage Movement. In Document 5, suffragists from the National Woman's Party were raising national awareness and attempted to draw attention to the Women's suffrage battle and the Nineteenth Amendment. Despite the fact that there were aggressive suffragists, they received the right to vote until after WW1.

Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson made many financial and social changes in which helped shape the Progressive Era. Both presidents had various ways and ideas to deal with Progressive change, yet each had the option to sway Congress to pass enactment with regards to his very own idea of the Progressive Dream. President Theodore Roosevelt believed the fact that the Federal Government was key for change. Roosevelt was not intrigued by trust-busting but rather favored organizations controlled by government guidelines. Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom was in favor of the destruction of the trusts in order to help upraise economic challenges for independent companies to thrive. Progressives had differing achievements which helped tend numerous issues in the public, but there were insufficient changes that had been made. A few changes that had a significant effect are as yet present today. In history, there have been and will consistently be dynamic reformers. Regardless of whether it is the individuals who are one for liberation and getting rid of slavery, or those fighting for rights of Same-sex marriage today. All throughout the period of 1901-1921, Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson have had a significant sway on the Progressive Movement through their own individual policies.