Ryan Walsh Hon. U.S. History 2 The Social Impact of Theodore Roosevelt In the post-Gilded Age, America needed a strong President to carry out and embellish upon the social reform and dismantle the corruption left by trusts. Taking over for the late President McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt was the upper-class proponent of the people willing to wage the crusade against big business with a boyish vigor to be admired by the entire world. His campaign for …showed first 75 words of 621 total…

…showed last 75 words of 621 total…soul and people. He brought creeds and values back to the American experience and helped set the destiny of a great nation back on the tracks laid by its for fathers. In a period of history preceded by extreme rape of capitalism, TR was the fierce republican with the grit and utter courage to pull the sword from the mighty stone of corruption and bring it down upon the big businesses defiling the American principles.