TRUST-BUSTING
What legislation was the first federal statute to limit cartels and monopolies and is named after an Ohio senator and a congressman?
Sherman Antitrust Act
What addition to the Monroe Doctrine justified U.S. intervention in Latin America to prevent European nations from intervening to collect debts from countries in that region?
Roosevelt Corollary
What act and law aimed to improve food safety and quality and which muckraking author’s novel ‘The Jungle’ played a significant role in inspiring them?
Pure Food and Drug Act - Meat Inspection Act - Upton Sinclair
This government agency, established in by President Theodore Roosevelt, was created to coordinate conservation efforts across federal agencies.
Bonus: Who was the executive chairman of this committee?
National Conservation Commission - Gifford Pinchot
What was the name of the railroad company led by J.P Morgan and James J. Hill that was later broken up by the US government under the Sherman Antitrust Act?
Northern Securities Company, Standard Oil
What waterway after a US-backed revolution in 1903, connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and was a significant achievement in engineering and geopolitics?
Panama Canal
What labor dispute was resolved by President Theodore Roosevelt’s intervention, ultimately leading to the first presidential involvement in an organized labor dispute to prevent a national coal shortage that could have affected millions of Americans during the winter months?
Coal Mine Strike
This landmark law, signed by President Theodore Roosevelt, grants the President the authority to establish national monuments to protect significant natural, cultural, or scientific features on public land.
Antiquities Act