Progressivism was a period of American history in which
             improving working conditions, improving the way of life, exposing
             corruption, expanding democracy and making reforms was the main idea
             of this period. Many of the citizens granted and demanded a change in
             numerous areas such as business, labor, economy, consumers and an
             increase of democracy. The progressive period was marked with the
             arrival of three great presidents Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson all
             three of these presidents fought for the common good of the people.
             Teddy Roosevelt was known as the "trust buster" and that is
             exactly what he did to help control big business. Many large
             corporations had complete control of the services that they were
             selling. Roosevelt went in to these companies and helped to stop this
             type of monopoly. The biggest trust that Roosevelt busted was the one
             involving Northern Securities and J.P. Morgan.
             Roosevelt was also a big supporter of labor he tried almost
             everything and anything to help the citizens of the United States.
             Teddy set up child protection laws, which were used to prevent
             children to work in factories, and it also reduced the amount of time
             they worked. Roosevelt also set up workman's compensation, which is a
             payment that employers had to pay employees who get injured on the
             job. President Wilson also tried to help and improve the conditions
             for workers he did this by adding and income tax. This type of income
             tax is called a progressive or graduated which would rise with the
             amount of money that a person makes. This really helped the poor
             because they were taxed less than big business men were.
             Wilson helped the economy by instituting a Federal Reserve
             Bank. This bank was a system in which there would be twelve federal
             reserve banks all throughout the country. All national banks were
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