Theodore Roosevelt And The Progressive Movement

The United States was undergoing a period of change before the start of World War I. In the previous years the U.S. was involved in the Cuba and Spanish American war. The U.S. taking the Cuban’s side won against the Spaniards. Soon after that war the U.S. entered another war called the Philippine-American war inheriting Spain’s conflict with the Philippines. Theodore Roosevelt, a war hero from the Spanish American war, was elected president. He changed politics in Washington by becoming a more active president than his predecessors. He created laws that become more involved in businesses, such as stronger laws against monopolies.
There was also the beginning of the Progressive Movement. The Progressive era was brought on by the industrialization