How Did Theodore Roosevelt's Antitrust Act

In order to establish justice for American citizens, Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt II believed that modern America needed a powerful federal government, and it is the governors’ responsibility to take action to handle these affairs. (Frank Freidel and Sidey Hugh) However, Roosevelt’s progressive politics frustrated his own party, so the Republican Party plotted to quite him by making him William McKinley’s Vice President. (Bio) Unfortunately, in 1901, one year after President William McKinley reelected, he was assassinated. The assassination made the Vice President Theodore Roosevelt the most powerful man in the country. And later, as Theodore Roosevelt officially assumed United States’ 26th Presidency in 1904, United States was experiencing rapid

The Sherman Antitrust Act passed by the Congress in 1890 was designed to prohibit monopolies or trusts, but it failed to define the activities prohibited and lack of enforcement made it unsuccessful. However, as President Roosevelt got involved, the Sherman Antitrust Act invoked with some success. Theodore Roosevelt’s first use of anti-trust legislation was in 1904 against Northern Securities Company, a monopoly built by railroad builder James J. Hill. Northern Securities Company dominated railroad lines from Chicago to the Pacific Northwest. Roosevelt believed that not all trusts are bad, but was determined to curb the ones like this that harm the public interest with no limits to greed. Therefore, by using the Sherman Antitrust Act, Theodore Roosevelt worked the case all the way up to Supreme Court and broken up the company, and founded him the name of the “Trust-Buster. In total Roosevelt had successfully filed forty-four trust, and brilliantly prevented many more rubber barons’ practices. (Theodore Roosevelt

John Muir, a Scottish naturalist, who valued nature as its sprit and quality had spent years in preserving resources, became to contradict with Gifford Pinchot. Gifford Pinchot the head of Forest Service hence believed that lands was not necessarily needed to be preserved but to be conserved. From Pinchot’s view, resources were in need of protection for efficiency in management, so that the program could increase the profitability for business interests in the long term. Theodore Roosevelt approached, as a conservationist instead of preservationist, in means of increase and sustains the resources of United States and industries that depend upon them. Therefore, he designated two hundred million acres as hundred and fifty new national forests, mineral reserves, potential waterpower sites, and created five national parks and eighteen national monuments to the list of protected lands in total. In 1905, he even moved the Forest Service from Department of the Interior to the Department of Agriculture in order to give the Gifford Pinchot more power to manage nation’s natural resources. (Linda