How Did Theodore Roosevelt Monopolies

Teddy’s Triumph “In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing”( Roosevelt 1). Theodore Roosevelt was born in New York City and strucken with asthma as a child. He was mostly home schooled through his early childhood but when he got older he was a governor of New York before he became a vice president. Theodore Roosevelt accomplished to fix the monopolies and the meat packing industries as a president and ready America for the war. One of Roosevelt achievement was the prosecution of monopolies. Roosevelt used the Sherman Antitrust as his weapon to stopping the monopolies. “ The American Sugar Refining Company controlled 98 percent of the sugar industry”( ushistory 1). Monopolies were really dangerous because there would be mostly coming from one company and can make it difficult for others to compete or be rich. He knew that controlling most of the product could give the company more power than others. Roosevelt also went after the J. Pierpont Morgan the owner of the railroad company. “Morgan controlled a railroad company known as Northern Securities. In combination with railroad Moguls James J. Hill and E. H. Harriman, Morgan controlled the bulk of railroad shipping across the northern United States”(ushistory 1).Theodore knew this was going to be a horrible company that can take advantage of the …show more content…
Roosevelt tacked the biggest railroad monopolies owned by J. Pierpont Morgan.He also promoted the conservation movement which save 150,000,000 acres of land by the time he left office. Roosevelt signed an act that change how the inspection of the livestock would be checked in the meatpacking industry. Do People think Theodore roosevelt changes were significant enough to be