ABSTRACT
Roosevelt and Wilson were relatively close on the issues. Wilson called his version of progressivism "New Freedom" and took an antimonopoly stance. While both men favored an activist federal government, Wilson shied away from federal government planning and programs and was more sympathetic to states' rights. Roosevelt's New Nationalism, which he had first promulgated in 1910, called for a protective tariff as well as stronger intervention by the government to control corporations and protect labor, women, and children. But the two strains of progressivism were very similar.
