HIST 2057 : FULL HISTORY REVIEW FOR EXAM 1 2057
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States federal government to investigate and pursue trusts, companies, and organizations suspected of being in violation. Social justice: woments christian temperance union, strove to close saloons, improve prison conditions, shelter prostitutes and abused women and childered, supor female loabr unions, and champion woman suffrage. Roosevelts progressivsm: stressed need for a new political approach in one of his first addresses to congress. Taft continued to bust trusts and rebfor the tariff, but republican party bosses, reflecting their big business interest, ensured that the tariff reductions were too few to satisfy the progressives in the party. Supreme court broke up american tobacco company at same time: trusts that cooperated were left alone, others had to run the gauntlet of anti trust suits. Roosevelts 2nd term: stonger commintment to progressive revorm. In 1905 he devoted most of his annual message to te regulation of big business: first to attack was railroadsg, 1906 hipburn actfor the first time gave the interstate.
