Question

Regarding trusts, Theodore Roosevelt .

saw them all as bad corporations that needed to be broken up

thought all monopolies benefited consumers

preferred to regulate them rather than break them up, but used the Sherman Antitrust Act to break up a railroad monopoly

believed that the government should not regulate corporations

Answer 1

preferred to regulate them rather than break them up, but used the Sherman Antitrust Act to break up a railroad monopoly.

He distinguished "good" and "bad" trusts, favoring regulation and oversight, but famously used the Sherman Act to dissolve the Northern Securities railroad trust in 1904.