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Roosevelt and Wilson

His greatest and most well known case against any large company was the suit to break up the Northern Securities Company, a railroad company headed by J.P. Morgan. Perhaps his most popular target in the fights against large companies were the railroads. Also during his presidency he passed many acts on food and drug regulation. By doing this he raised consumer standards and improved the conditions in the factories. In other cases Roosevelt protected factory and business owners from strikes by threatening to call in federal troops on the employees. .
             President Roosevelt was one of the nation's first environmentalists. During his presidency, he used his power to set aside 190 million acres for national forests, coal and water reserves, and wildlife refuges. He was most concerned with America's liberty in the use of the country's national resources. .
             In his ideas concerning women and African Americans Roosevelt was not as progressive as his economic policy may have made him seem. Although he did support suffrage and equal education for women and men he believed that the sexes should be educated differently, and men should be more aggressive and righteous. Roosevelt did not believe that blacks and whites were equal and he did not believe in integration. He believed that it was the duty of white Americans to help the less-capable other races, including Asians and Native Americans.
             President Woodrow Wilson was one of the most scholarly presidents ever to enter office. He built much of his policy off of Roosevelt's but had a different view on many of his ideas. He changed the role of the president even more than Roosevelt and eventually made the role of presidency an equal or greater power than congress. Wilson wanted to expand economic opportunity like Roosevelt, and also limit the powers and advantages of the great companies and trusts. He believed that the wealthy had too many unfair advantages.


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... won the nomination after 46 ballots. Offering a program of reform that he called the New Freedom, Wilson ran against a divided Republican party. In November, with only 42 percent of the popular vote, he won 435 electoral votes to 88 for Progressive candidate Theodore Roosevelt and 8 for the Republican candidate, President William Howard Taft. By presenting his program personally before the democratically ... controlled Congress, employing personal persuasion as well as patronage, and appealing to the American public with his stirring rhetoric, Wilson won passage of an impressive array of...

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2. The Warrior and the Priest

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3. America and the Progression of Isolationism

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4. The Presidency of Woodrow Wilson

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5. Progressive Era - Reformer Success and Failure

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8. Woodrow Wilson

... many areas. He managed to accomplish a lot, despite his poor health that he had to deal with since his childhood. Wilson always had a strong interest in government and was always looking for changes and improvements. As president he was never afraid to show a bit of a radical side when it came to making changes. ... not learned the field of law thorough while in school, he showed a poor ability to be a lawyer. During this time he was in and out of sickness. Wilson did not really want to be a lawyer. His main area of interest was in politics. His first taste of politics was during his ter...

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