HIST 2057 Study Guide - Northern Securities Company, Herbert Croly, Glacier Point
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Progressive presidents, 1900-1916: the democratic national state, wrote new republic editor herbert croly, offered an alternative to control of americans" lives by narrow interests that manipulated politics or by the all-powerful corporations. Croly proposed a new synthesis of american political traditions. To achieve jeffersonian ends of democratic self-determination and individual freedom, he insisted, the country needed to employ the hamiltonian means of government intervention in the economy. Each in his own way, the progressive presidents--- theodore roosevelt, william howard taft, and woodrow wilson--- tried to address this challenge. 42 years when he became president, youngest man ever to hold the office of president. Led him to promote the strenuous life of manly adventure. Believed that the federal government had to identify bad corporations and break them up. The first trust buster : the square deal. Roosevelt"s program that attempted to confront the problems caused by economic consolidation by distinguishing between good and bad corporations.
