Theodore Roosevelt pretty much defined the Progressive Era of US History.
He was proud to call himself a “progressive”. It’s ridiculous to argue otherwise. The name of TR’s party in the 1912 election was the 1912 PROGRESSIVE PARTY.
According to Wikipedia, “Its platform called for women’s suffrage, recall of judicial decisions, easier amendment of the U.S. Constitution, social welfare legislation for women and children, workers’ compensation, limited injunctions in strikes, farm relief, revision of banking to assure an elastic currency, required health insurance in industry, new inheritance taxes and income taxes, improvement of inland waterways, and limitation of naval armaments.”
TR favored big government, Federal bureaucratic intrusion, imperial expansion, and big labor, while opposing private enterprise.
As a result, high school and college instructors love him. Evidently he is still viewed favorably by modern conservatives of the “national greatness” variety.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_Era
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_Party_%28United_States%2C_1912%29
. To much of the information on the site is corrupted or not vetted throughly and like any other source should not be taken as cold hard fact unless you have several other INDEPENDENT sources that back up the facts... just sayin...
. To much of the information on the site is corrupted or not vetted throughly and like any other source should not be taken as cold hard fact unless you have several other INDEPENDENT sources that back up the facts... just sayin...