Progressivism gained a strong voice in the White House when Theodore Roosevelt became president in 1901. Roosevelt believed that strong corporations were good for America, but he also believed that corporate conduct must be watched to guarantee that business greed did not get out of hand, this was knows as trust-busting and federal regulation of business. ... Unlike most Republicans, who largely ignored economic and social inequalities, Roosevelt acknowledged them. Roosevelt believed that large agencies run by experts could find rational solutions to satisfy everyone. President Roosevelt rea...

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Some progress was made against the trusts during the administration of Theodore Roosevelt, and Congress passed two bills regulating railroads. Although Roosevelt supported the progressive drive for regulation of corporations and for social welfare legislation, Congress remained adamantly against it. Roosevelt's successor, William Howard Taft, was a determined opponent of progressive reform. ... When this failed, progressives united in a third party and nominated Roosevelt for President. ...

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Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson were revolutionary in realizing this, and they were of great importance to the origins and progress of the Progressive Movement. ... Journalists, labelled muckrakers by Roosevelt, exposed the different problems of the nation to public eyes. ... Roosevelt had appropriated the early reform issues in a modified form, which caused these ideas to gain nationwide and bipartisan support. ...

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