Compare And Contrast Roosevelt And Thomas Wilson

The Industrial era was a period of progress because progress is seen as the movement forward of an individual or community into a better state; this includes any form of improvement in their lives like economic, political or technological advancements that would help them. During the Industrial era the presidents, women, and technology advanced. The Presidents has progressive ideas that would help the nation and its people, women were able to gain more rights and eventually gained the most important civil right, and finally more technology was created that improved the average American life.
One of the leading factors that supported the Industrial era being progressive were the Presidents of the time. Both Theodore Roosevelt and Thomas Wilson

Thomas Wilson wanted stricter anti-trust laws, protecting the right of workers to unionize and actively encouraging small businesses. While Roosevelt believed in increasing government interference Thomas believed in increasing economic competition without increasing government regulations because he feared big governments as much as big corporations. Two years into his presidency the Clayton Act of 1914 was passed, it exempted labor unions from antitrust laws and did not allow courts from issuing injunctions mandating the end to strikes, this is important because it protected the works right to strike if an injustice was occurring in businesses. The Keating-Owen Act was also passed and it prevented child labor in factories of manufactured goods this was one of the most important acts passed because child labor became common and this at least put an end to it in factories so children no longer had the option to go to work, they had to go to school. He also had the Federal Trade Commission investigated unfair business activities like monopolizing and price fixing. He was a progressive president because the acts passed under his office improved American lives and ensured freedom from

The Women’s Era spanned from 1890 to 1920, it was a progressive movement that allowed economic and political independence for women. Women began to be more publicly active and were able to step into the social sphere. By 1900 five million women were working for wages, in the beginning, they were young unmarried women working in domestic fields, however, well-educated women were beginning to work in a professional position and better paying jobs. Twenty years later eight million were working and it was no longer unmarried women, married women were working as well and they were able to move out of domestic jobs into office jobs or telephone operators. An important group called The Women’s Christian Temperance Union formed in 1974 and they demanded the prohibition of alcohol and for economic and political reform that included the right to vote. Their leader Frances Willard believed women should drop the title of being weak and dependent in order to fully enter society in a way to make a change. While in the beginning the movement was not as progressive due to white women believing they were the ones entitled to the same rights of men it soon began to include all women not just white women thus making it completely