Summary of the Progressive Presidents

William H. Taft, Republican 1909-1913

Woodrow Wilson, Democrat 1913-1920

Theodore Roosevelt, Republican 1901-1909

The Progressive Era was an age of reform. Its effects touched all Americans and changed the role of government in American society.

-Taft tried to do everything different than Roosevelt almost as if he was trying to anger him.

-Taft was Roosevelt's handpicked successor, and Roosevelt believed that Taft would maintain many of Roosevelt's reforms. But he didn't.

-His domestic program expanded the role of the federal government in managing the economy and protecting the interest of citizens.

-The New Freedom is the policy of U.S President Woodrow Wilson which promoted antitrust modification, tariff revision, and reform in banking and currency matters.

-Roosevelt thought the government should manage the environment and food and drug industries.

-He wanted to protect the middle class from big business while still accounting for the demands of the unions.

-Roosevelt led the way in increasing the government's participation in the economy.

-He was a bit of an outdoorsman so he always tried to protect the environment and use it's natural resources responsibly.

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