Monopoly and Theodore Roosevelt
 

Great Merger Movement (1895-1904)

Vertical Integration

Horizontal Integration  (Cartel)
      -Trusts
           -Standard Oil Company (1882)
           -John D. Rockefeller
      -Holding Company
          -American Tobacco Co. (1889)
          -James Duke

Sherman Antitrust Act  (1890)
      -U.S. vs. E.C. Knight Co. (1895)
      -Northern Securities Co. vs. U.S. (1904)

Theodore Roosevelt
      -Trust Busting
      -Bully Pulpit

Anthracite Strike (1902)

Standard Oil Company
      -John D. Rockefeller

Gentleman's Agreement
      -J.P. Morgan

Legislation
     -Elkins Act (1903)
     -Hepburn Act (1906)
     -Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)
          -Muckraking
          -Upton Sinclair, The Jungle (1906)

William Howard Taft
      -Insurgent Republicans

Gifford Pinchot
      -Conservation

Pottawatomie Speech (1910)

1912

New Nationalism
      -Progressive Party of 1912
           -Bull Moose Party

New Freedom
      -Woodrow Wilson
      -Louis Brandeis

  Theodore Roosevelt

 Progressive 
Amendments
& Legislation

William Howard Taft

     Election of 1912