passed the Newlands Reclamation Act, which took full advantage of the vast amounts of unchecked lands. Land is and will always be key in any political effort through out history. It would become clear years after that this particular land act would prove to be most beneficial to the expansion of the United States. Roosevelt and Wilson had similar views on some aspects though. They both believed in the in the stopp of Child Labor as in 1916 Wilson recognized The Keating-Owen Act, which put a stop (for the most part) to the exploitation of child labor. Together they shared the view of basic equality. In the reading I have found that they had a little more insight into where the country needed to be. The regulation of government was inevitable and equality was paramount. Weather it was equality in the work place and receiving the same pay for services rendered. Or if it was the equal opportunity of business in America to thrive and to have a fair shot at making a profit without the chance of big business annexing them and or simply just shutting them out of business. These thoughts were quite comtemporary in early 20th century, Yet the tone was quite conservative. As Roosevelt said once “Reform is conservative”.What I understood to be Roosevelt’s message was that we needed a new idea and not to fall back on the thoughts of 18th century aristocrats. I don’t think that either Wilson or Roosevelt denied that the constitution was and always will be the backbone of The United States Government but America needed new thoughts and actions. Reform has a connotation to digress in a certain sense and these two men had no plans of moving backwards in the political arena. Their next step would always be forward with controversial laws and revisions of old thoughts. The domestic policy agendas of Wilson and Roosevelt were cutting edge. They were unmistakably distinct but both had the nationalistic form whose goal was to strengt...
