As John D. Rockefeller said, ‘The day of the combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.” During the 1890-1920 era it had been called the Progressive Era. The Progressive Era is a period of overspread of social activism and political reform across the United States. Many problems had been going on during this era such as industrialization, urbanization, immigration, and corruption in government. Throughout the Progressive Era Teddy Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson had played a huge role throughout the era they were the main progressive U.S. Presidents. Social and political change in American society was serious to all involved. Teddy Roosevelt had been politically famous as the first president of the Progressive Era “The Progressive Movement covered social reform issues relating to female suffrage, education, working conditions, unionization, the problems of urbanization, industrialization and child labor.”(Alchin).
President Teddy Roosevelt had dealt with preparing America for the worst. Teddy Roosevelt had wanted to make the country’s defenses strong. One big accomplish he had done was making the U.S. Navy a major international force at sea. The poor have had to deal with some of the worst circumstances out there. He had fought for their conditions to be better. It was the same for the blacks they did not have any equality. Teddy Roosevelt and another president Woodrow Wilson had practically created the, “anglo-saxon race” which was for those who had been poor and blacks. Progressives had waged war against corporate behavior. They had also tried getting rid of brutal conditions that had been in the factory industry. Usually Congress is the bicameral legislature of the Federal government of the United States which is higher than presidency in certain cases. While Teddy Roosevelt was in office he gained more than Congress.
The second president along the Progressive Era, William Howard Taft, he had been different but in reality they had both succeeded. While Teddy Roosevelt believed that the presidents could use their power the best, Taft, supported the“strict” interpretation of the Constitution. The whole part of having private property was a good idea. The third president, Woodrow Wilson, an advocate on how the national bank achieved financial stability from emergency in the futures. Woodrow Wilson truly only became president because of Roosevelt. Roosevelt had because he had been so annoyed by the second president, William Howard Taft, because he did not support the progressive causes. So he ran for a third party candidate, but he had been racist.
The Reconstruction had ultimately failed, why?… It is crazy that the progressive era had started as a “social movement”, “World War I when the horrors of war exposed people’s cruelty and many. The Compromise of 1876 dramatically ended the Reconstruction era. The people in down south had a different look on everything so the democrat southerners had wanted to protect civil and political rights of blacks were not kept. Reconstruction ultimately failed when the Compromise of 1877, had been an unwritten deal that determined the long challenging presidential election. The United States federal government had pulled the last troops they had out of the South, and formally ended the Reconstruction Era.
