Progressive Age, 1900-1920

Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909)

 * Republican
 * VP: Charles Fairbanks
 * Secretary of State: John Hay, Elihu Root
 * Major items:
 * Big Stick Diplomacy
 * Panama Canal, 1903-1914
 * Square Deal
 * Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, 1904
 * Portsmouth Treaty, 1905
 * Gentleman's Agreement with Japan, 1904
 * Hague Conferences, 1899 and 1977
 * Hepburn Act, 1906
 * Pure Food and Drug Act, Meat Inspection Act, 1906
 * Muckrakers
 * Political reforms
 * Trust-busting
 * Coal strike
 * Environmentalism
 * Venezuelan Debt Controversy, 1902
 * Dominican Republic Crisis, 1902
 * Algerian Conference about Morocco, 1906

William Howard Taft, 1909-1913

 * Republican
 * VP: James Sherman
 * Major items:
 * Paine-Aldrich Tariff, 1909
 * Pinchot-Ballinger controversy, 1909
 * Dollar Diplomacy

Woodrow Wilson, 1913- 1921

 * Democrat
 * VP: Thomas Marshall
 * Major items:
 * Underwood Tariff, 1913
 * 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th Amendments
 * Federal Reserve Act, 1913
 * Federal Trade Commission, 1914
 * Clayton Anti-Trust Act, 1914
 * Troops to Nicaragua, Dominican Repubic, Haiti, Virgin Islands, Mexico
 * World War I
 * Lusitania, May 1915
 * "Fourteen Points" plan, January 1917
 * Treaty of Versailles, 1919-1920
 * "New Freedom"