HIST 15200 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Appeasement, Gerald Nye, Underwater Warfare
16 Aug 2018
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Believed a president should lead and keep things moving forward. After graduating from harvard, he dropped out of law school but still managed to get himself elected to the new york state assembly. Trust buster didn"t believe all trusts were bad, didn"t want to crush all big businesses; 1902; Roosevelt attacked northern securities company; 1905: beef, sugar, fertilizer, harvester, trusts declared illegal; wanted to prove that the gov"t, not businesses, rule the country; trusts thought tr was cutting into their profits w/ his regulations. His square deal aimed to distinguish good corporations that provided useful products and services at fair prices, from evil corporations that existed just to make money. Wanted american peace so thats why we went to war. Wrote a book, the influence on seawater upon history . Argued that to be a great power, like gb, the us needed to control the seas and dominate international commerce.
