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The main objective of the Progressive movement was eliminating corruption in government. The movement primarily targeted political machines and their bosses. By taking down these corrupt representatives in office a further means of direct democracy would be established. They also sought regulation of monopolies (Trust Busting) and corporations through antitrust laws. These antitrust laws were seen as a way to promote equal competition for the advantage of consumers. |
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| On September 6, President McKinley was shot by an anarchist acting alone while in Buffalo, New York. Roosevelt became president and started pushing for progressive political involvement of the government. |
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| Term for Roosevelt, as he worked to tear down monopolies and decrease power of Robber Barons. |
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| "Speak softly and carry a big stick" |
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U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt’s foreign policy: "speak softly, and carry a big stick." Roosevelt described his style of foreign policy as "the exercise of intelligent forethought and of decisive action sufficiently far in advance of any likely crisis".[1]
The idea of negotiating peacefully, simultaneously threatening with the "big stick", or the military, ties in heavily with the idea of Realpolitik, which implies a pursuit of political power that resembles Machiavellian ideals |
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| s a broad philosophy based on the Idea of Progress, which asserts that advancement in science, technology, economic development, and social organization are vital to improve the human condition. |
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| Roosevelt's plan to help the american people by busting large trust companies. This made large economic power horses like Rockefeller by forcing them to sell most of their companies stocks to break one large company into smaller companies. This did make companies less powerful but the sale of stock holdings made these company owners even more wealthy than before. |
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| The Bureau of Corporations, predecessor to the Federal Trade Commission was created as an investigatory agency within the Department of Commerce and Labor in the United States. The Bureau and the Department were created by Congress on February 14, 1903, during the Progressive Era. |
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