The Progressive movement was fortunate to receive support from the President of the United States consecutively for three different Presidents. Theodore Roosevelt was the first president of the United States to support progressivism, although he considered himself a devote member of the Republican Party. The following two presidents, William Howard Taft and Woodrow Wilson, continued to address the same problems that the Progressives saw as the most significant. Each of these three presidents succeeded in …
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…problems Roosevelt had intentionally avoided such as the tariff problem. Both Taft and Wilson were successful in making crucial progress in lowering tariffs. The societal abuse problem of the Progressive Movement was unfortunately ignored for the most part by all three presidents. Overall the difference in methods and styles of all three presidents in approaching and working out the problems of the Progressive Movement was essential to the success of sustaining Progressive Reform in America.