Progressive Era Legislation Review

Improve society

Help big business grow.

Increase immigration

Improved working conditions

Improved city living

Got rid of corrupt government

Broke up monopolies.

Gets rid of competition

Decreases immigration

Unfair business practices

Better prices for consumers.

Increase the number of monopolies.

Break up monopolies

Improve tenements

Woodrow Wilson

Howard Taft

Teddy Roosevelt

Sherman Antitrust Act

Pure Food and Drug Act

Interstate Commerce Act

Indian Removal Act

To ensure products were safe.

To help businesses make as much money as possible.

To encourage monopolies

To protect consumers by regulating the food and drug industry.

To lower the cost of essential foods and drugs for consumers.

To prevent shortages by regulating the supply of food and drugs.

To reduce production costs for food and drug manufacturers.

It needed to be protected.

It needed to be conserved.

It was an endless supply of resources.

Business was destroying the land to get resources.

Nothing, it wasn´t being used.

Businesses were fighting to protect the land from destruction.

To protect the land and resources.

To give land to monopolies.

To give away free land to settlers.