USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Which of the following was NOT a goal or an achievement of Theodore Roosevelt’s Square Deal? Elimination of all corporations through trust-busting.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Square Deal was Theodore Roosevelt’s domestic policy based on three basic ideas: protection of the consumer, control of large corporations, and conservation of natural resources.

Detailed explanation-3: -More recently, historians have distilled the Square Deal to the “three C’s” of consumer protection, corporate regulation, and conservationism, as shorthand for the most important domestic goals of Theodore Roosevelt’s presidency.

Detailed explanation-4: -He called for an eight-hour law for federal employees. In other areas he also sought a postal savings system to provide competition to local banks, and, finally, campaign finance reform. He secured passage of the Hepburn Act in 1906, which increased the regulating power of the Interstate Commerce Commission.