Theodore Roosevelt in this sense tried to tackle the issue by intervening for the miners, for instance. However, an essential idea is related to the desire of the government to increase its power and intervention possibilities in order to better control the corporations that were created as a result of the industrialization process. These were sources of constant impoverishment for the population (Pease, 1962, 163-5). However, the population reacted in a different way than expected by the political actors. Indeed, from the point-of-view of the labor unions, their number increased and a certain collective mentality was formed, one which allowed them to further fight for the rights of the employee (Pease, 1962). Even so, there were individuals who reacted negatively considering that the Progressive Era was in fact a socialist perception of the economy, rather than a means to create progress for the population in the country.

The forces which shaped America are multiple. On the one hand, democracy can be considered as a force which influenced the evolution of the state in terms of the society it developed....

On the other hand, the progress, whether it is industrial or social, also impacted the evolution of the country. The industrial progress helped the country reemerge from the disastrous situation of the Civil War, whereas the social progress enabled people claim their rights to fair conditions of work and decent treatment by the employers. Despite these evolutions however, neither Theodore Roosevelt's program nor Wilson's managed to achieve what the Emancipation movement and the Civil rights movement did in the following decades.
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