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In 1904 President Roosevelt got the supreme court to rule that Northern securities company was a monopoly.
I beleive its Theodore Roosevelt
Anti-trust used to break up big railroads
Most people would call Theodore Roosevelt progressive, but he did not take office until September 14,1901. William McKinley was the President in September 6,1901.
The President who was called the trustbuster because he was the first to break up trusts and monopolies was Theodore Roosevelt. He believed in regulating big business to promote fair competition and protect consumers, leading to several antitrust prosecutions during his presidency in the early 1900s.
Theodore Roosevelt called the trust buster because of his efforts to break up trusts and outlaw business monopolies.
He ensured the construction of the Panama Canal. He also added the national forests in those west reserved land for public use and irrigration projects. He made the teddy bears because of his name Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt. To reporters he once remarked that he felt as fit as a bull moose for the name of his new party.
44 with the Sherman Antitrust Act Source: squaredeal.com
He supported powerful corporations that did business fairly.
I am not sure what you want to know. Roosevelt was a reformer, but he pushed for laws that made life better for the people, pure food and drugs, national parks and forests, pushed the break-up of business trusts and monopolies, started the Panama Canal and expanded the use of the Monroe Doctrine. He expanded the role of the President which you might say did something for the government.
It encouraged people to break the law because they wanted to show the government that it is America and that it is our American right to be able to drink. It encouraged people to break the law because they wanted to show the government that it is America and that it is our American right to be able to drink.
Theodore or Teddy Roosevelt was popularly labeled to be a 'trustbuster' president. He became controversial for forcing the Great Railroad Combination in the Northwest to break apart.