President Roosevelt brought forth the most reform in our country is because he signed the Sherman Antitrust Act which protected smaller businesses to keep them from becoming monopolised by larger companies. For example Ida Tarbell’s father's business was being monopolised by the standard oil company this protected the Tarbell’s company by not allowing the monopolization of Standard Oil. Also the Northern Security Company was an act made to take down the monopolization of the railroad. Since railroads were the main way of transpiration they were a …show more content…
This issue was brought up by Upton Sinclair in his book “The Jungle”. This book went into detail about how the food that they purchase may not be safe to eat. This moved Roosevelt so much that after he read it he took an investigation troop to eventually come to the conclusion that the book was telling the truth. This act was very beneficial for the american people so that everyday they were ensured that they were buying safe meat. Though president… did not do anything of the sort to benefit the