New Nationalism was a policy platform first proposed by former President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt in a speech in Osawatomie, Kansas on August 31, 1910.
[7]In terms of policy, Roosevelt's platform included a broad range of social and political reforms advocated by progressives.
[12] New Nationalism was in direct contrast with Woodrow Wilson's policy of The New Freedom, which promoted antitrust modification, tariff reduction, and banking and currency reform.
According to Nathan Miller, in his Osawatomie speech: Foreshadowing the modern welfare state, he advocated positive action by the national government to advance equality of opportunity, justice, and security for all.
Graduated income and inheritance taxes, a revamped financial system, a comprehensive workmen's compensation law, a commission of experts to regulate the tariff, limitations on the political activities of corporations, the tariff, limitations on the political activities of corporations, stringent new conservation laws, and regulation of child labor were all parts of his grab a bag of reforms.