1. Regulating Big Business
Trust-busting Regulating the Railroads Protecting Consumers
President Roosevelt Railroads commonly Roosevelt
directed the U.S. attorney granted rebates to their responded to
general to sue the Northern best customers; this growing public
.Securities Company for meant that corporations dismay about
violating the Sherman practices of the food
paid less to ship their
Antitrust Act Companies were
& drug industries
products than smalls
The Supreme Court selling dangerous
farmers/businesses.
ruled that the monopoly products to the public.
Congress passed the
did violate the Sherman One problem was the
Elkins Act, it prohibited
Antitrust Act, and it customers buying
railroads from
ordered the corporation tainted food and
accepting rebates. It
dissolved. thinking investigated
ensured that customers Wilson it was healthy.
An encouraged Roosevelt paid the same rates for companies and sent a
administration launched a vigorous shipping products.
report that shocked the
trust-busting campaign. It filed law
The Hepburn Act U.S. Congress into
suits against monopolies & trusts
action. The Meat
that it believed were not in the public strengthened the
Interstate Commerce Inspection Act & The
interest. The Roosevelt
Commission, giving it the Pure Food & Drug Act
administration went after the bad