True or false, "new nationalism" was a plan that called for the federal government to exert its power for the "welfare of the people."

True, "New Nationalism" was a plan that called for the federal government to exert its power for the "welfare of the people." Theodore Roosevelt outlined this policy while delivering a speech in Kansas and stated that only a powerful federal government could regulate the economy and guarantee social justice, with a central issue for the government being the protection of human welfare and property rights.