TRUSTBUSTERS AND THE PRESIDENTS

What problems existed with industrial America and the policy of laissez-faire?

John D. Rockefeller

How did U.S. Presidents and the progressive movement become involved in "trustbusting"?

    Teddy Roosevelt
    William Taft
    Woodrow Wilson
    Ida Tarbell - Standard Oil
    Ray Stannard Baker - What the United States Steel Corporation Really Is

Anti-Trust Legislation
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAtrust.htm

The Sherman Anti-Trust Law

Clayton Anti-Trust Law

The Federal Trade Commission

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