"The essence of any struggle for healthy liberty has always been, and must always be, to take from some one man or class of men the right to enjoy power, or wealth, or position, or immunity, which has not been earned by service to his or their fellows... The New Nationalism puts the national need before sectional or personal advantage." — Theodore Roosevelt, "New Nationalism" speech, Osawatomie, Kansas, 1910
Compared to Woodrow Wilson's "New Freedom" of 1912, Roosevelt's New Nationalism was more inclined to:
- A
Break up all trusts to restore small-scale economic competition
- B
Eliminate federal income taxation entirely
- C
Return tariff policy to antebellum levels
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Accept large corporations while strengthening regulatory agencies to oversee them
Explanation
TR accepted bigness and emphasized regulation; Wilson's New Freedom emphasized trust-busting to restore competition.