During The Progressive Era

The progressive era was a history a period of social activisms and political reform. After the gilded age citizens realized that America was in desperate need for something new, something fresh. Many new reforms were made in order to improve our America, and it couldn’t be done without the presents that were under office at the time. Through the progressive era and the reforms of president McKinely Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson america slowly began to progress. President William McKinley was the 25th president of the United States and was in office from 1897 to 1901. “President McKinley began a period of broad reforms in politics, labor relations and American society. The next 24 years would find successive administrations following suit.”2 One of Williams’s main concerned was with the domestic affairs and is why he became the leading republican tariff expert.
Theodore Roosevelt served between the years of 1901-1909, and was known as youngest president to serve office. He believed that it
“was the duty of the president to act upon the theory that he is the steward of the people, and… to assume that he has the legal right to do
His biggest concern with America at the time was health and the environment. It wasn’t until Roosevelt read “the jungle” by Upton Sinclair that Roosevelt saw the horrible health conditions that were going on. Meat industries would handle their meat in the most unsanitary way. They wouldn’t wash their hands; the meat would be at room tempter etc. Roosevelt pushed to pass the meat inspection act, which was passed to “force meat makers to use strict sanitation guidelines and created the program of federal meat inspection that was in use until the 1990’s.”1 The Pure food and drug act was also passed during Roosevelt in 1906. This act was passed in order to “ stop the sale containment of food and medicines and called for labels to be