Data Bases • Custom Term Papers • Free Term Papers • Free Research Papers • Free Essays • Free Book Reports • Plagiarism? Links • Top 100 Term Paper Sites • Top 25 Essay Sites • Top 50 Essay Sites • Search 97,000 Papers @ DirectEssays.com • Search 101,000 Papers @ ExampleEssays.com • Search 90,000 Papers @ MegaEssays.com Free Essays • Term Paper Sites • Chuck III's Free Essays • Free College Essays • TermPaperSites.com • My Term Papers • Get Free Essays • Essay World • Planet Papers	Search Lots of Essays Back to Subjects - History Other Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt were two of America’s great presidents. This is why I feel that both men were equally important in what they did and said they would do. Both in their own ways have added a little of what makes this country what it is today. Both had their own beliefs of how reform, empowerment of the people and foreign policy should be accomplished. As president, the main goal was to do what they felt best for the American people. In doing so, how different could they really be? To me, the empowerment of the people means giving people their rights, and in doing so making their lives a little better. Both men were considered to be "trust busters". By stopping illegal businesses they were able to protect the consumer. The nineteenth amendment, put in place by Wilson, protected women's right to vote. He also argued laws to help protect their health and the morals of women. Roosevelt believed in the "square deal” giving individuals greater economic opportunities and settling the coal strike in 1902. Both men believed in helping people, though in different ways, both achieved the things they set out to do. Both of the men were involved greatly in progressive reform. For the most part they were the same. Both thought that reform was necessary, but the way that they went about it was different. For example, Wilson ratified the eighteenth amendment, which was the prohibition, outlawing liquor from being manufactured, sold, or transported. Roosevelt never would have approved it; he did try to outlaw football because of the injury that it caused. Instead of being outlawed, he compromised on structured rules. Both men were concerned with child labor. Both men organized investigations into child labor and later formed the federal children’s bureau, let by Roosevelt, and the Keating-Owen child labor act, outlawing the shipment of goods made by child labor, put in place by Wilson. Wilson wanted to lower tariffs, oppose business consolidation, and urge the government to break up giant corporations. On the other hand, Roosevelt believed in higher taxes, consider business consolidation acceptable, urging giant corporations to be permitted, but only with government regulations. Always present was the U.S. involvement in Foreign Affairs. Wilson’s missionary diplomacy was meant to teach Latin American countries about democracy, constitutionalism, and the process of a government based upon a system of laws. Instead of providing long-term stability, the result was lengthy occupations of the counties by American military forces. World War 1 was a time when the presidents differed greatly. Wilson didn’t want to go to war, but Roosevelt wanted to be involved. He wanted to fight for what the U.S. believed in. He also thought that the war would be an economic boost and bring glory to the U.S. Wilson, on the other hand, went to war to help people, though he tried to keep us out of it as long as possible. Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt had a lot of the same beliefs to what they wanted as an end result when it came to empowerment of the people and reform. When they were faced with foreign Affairs both acted very differently. Wilson wanted to do what was right for everyone, but Roosevelt wanted power for the U.S. Both men in their own way helped the United States become what it is today, a strong and important world power. Bibliography: Word Count: 567
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