USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Roosevelt, a Republican, confronted the bitter struggle between management and labor head-on and became known as the great “trust buster” for his strenuous efforts to break up industrial combinations under the Sherman Antitrust Act.

Detailed explanation-2: -Roosevelt told Congress he opposed banning monopolies. Instead, he preferred that the federal government “assume power of supervision and regulation over all corporations doing an interstate business."

Detailed explanation-3: -Teddy Roosevelt (not Ned Flanders) leading the charge against trusts in a cartoon from 1899. Teddy Roosevelt was one American who believed a revolution was coming. He believed Wall Street financiers and powerful trust titans to be acting foolishly.