Theodore Roosevelt was an imperialist and supported it because he was interested in the US maintaining its power for racial reasons. He believed that the white race was the most dominant over everyone else.
Peter the great tried to Westernize Russia, and therefore industrialize it. In this way he was a progressive monarch, trying to change things for the better. Yet Charles II wanted complete control over his people and so tried to get rid of the parliament which resulted in the English Civil War. Yet Peter the Great tried to liberalize Russia, giving people rights to revitalize their economy and country.
Francis Cabot Lowell began to transform the role of women in the United States, because he employed women who worked in his farms who were between the ages of 15-35 in his textile factories. He also put them in religious activities and educated them, as well as let them board in the company houses.
