Yes, I am aware that MLA formatting requires that titles to NOT be capitalized. Seriously though. That is just how progressive President Teddy Roosevelt was: his progressiveness was so progressive, that the emphasis was extremely necessary.
Here he comes, father of the presidential progressivism, Teddy Roosevelt. As you can see from my graphic organizer, Roosevelt was a president with drive. He knew what he was going to do for this country, and he cracked down with his policies. Roosevelt felt that the country was going quickly downhill with the power rapidly falling to huge mega-corporations. In response, Roosevelt ushered in the era of progressives, with his Square Deal, where he busted giant trust companies and created the United States Department of Commerce and Labor. He listened to his people and to their culture. When Upton Sinclair spoke out for the workers in American industry, Roosevelt listened and changed things. The meat packing industry and the state of factories in the U.S. in general improved tenfold under Roosevelt’s administration. Roosevelt was the first president to speak for the welfare of the American environment and created what would become the Department of the Interior. Taft, although he passed 90 anti-trust laws, he didn’t really do much else in the way of progressivism. Wilson did do many things to reform the government, such as cracking down on bankers and establishing a better anti-trust act. However, the most important thing about Roosevelt was his drive as a progressive president. Roosevelt just had a certain spirit and pizazz that Wilson and (definitely) Taft could never match. His confident and can-do attitude lives on today in his policies and his actions, remaining as inspiration for the rest of us. A reminder that to change things, we need to get things done.
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