US History › Section K · Progressives and empire › Topic K.4
Progressivism in the White House
Between 1901 and 1916, three presidents carried reform from cities and states to the national government. Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft and Woodrow Wilson disagreed about how to tame big business, but together they built the regulatory state Americans still live with.
In this topic
- A president by accident
- Roosevelt and the trusts
- Worked example: two strikes, two responses
- The Square Deal: food, drugs and railways
- Conservation and its limits
- Taft: more suits, fewer friends
- The election of 1912
- Worked example: reading the 1912 results
- Wilson's New Freedom in action
- Progress for whom?
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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