How Was Roosevelt A Progressive President

Progressive Era was a turning point for the United States. It was a period of time were people were trying to fix the problems that were created before but not all were fixed. Many U.S citizens and the government work together so that they could improve the country and make step forward even with a few steps back. Roosevelt, was known as a progressive president during this era and had many accomplishments from limiting or stopping trusts to giving people the right to a direct vote and it was called the Square Deal. Roosevelt’s main accomplishment was limiting trusts that went around. He didn’t believe that all trusts were bad but he still wanted to keep a close eye on both the good and bad trusts, limiting monopolies, so that they wouldn’t
He wanted direct vote of people instead of it being by indirect vote through an electoral college. Although there were issues for a certain group of people to get their vote and that was women. Women were really never looked at as a person who was needed until their efforts were shown in World War 1. They were seen as Germans and the United States didn’t like the Germans because they weren’t self-governed so when they said, “20,000,000 American Women Are Not Self-Governed.” (H) The Federal Government and Woodrow Wilson took action by granting them the 19th Amendment in 1919 which states women have the right to vote. Roosevelt giving people the vote was a step forward through the Progressive Era and when Women’s Suffrage came into play it was a few step backs until Woodrow Wilson gave them the 19th
Civil Rights was never looked at by anybody not even the most progressive president Roosevelt. Although, Roosevelt did have some individual work with some African Americans. African Americans still didn’t get why they didn’t have civil rights because they fought for the U.S. and proved that they were a citizen but still didn’t get their rights. (I) They really didn’t like it when Woodrow Wilson came into power because he knew the “fundamental wrongs of society” but he was influence to get votes instead of doing whats was right. (F) As Woodrow Wilson was put into office he brought back segregation which did not make the African Americans and nor the North but it made the South happy. Segregation wasn’t stop until he was out of office and once segregation was over they were given civil rights. There is always a few setbacks to make any moves forwards and those were a couple of