Theodore Roosevelt Reforms

Meat Inspection Act

to prevent adulterated or misbranded meat and meat products from being sold as food and to ensure that meat and meat products are slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions.

Pure Food and Drug Act

A 1906 law regulating the conditions in the food and drug industries to ensure a safe supply of food and medicine

Interstate Commerce Act

addressed the problem of railroad monopolies by setting guidelines for how the railroads could do business (trying to bust trusts).

Hepburn Act

a 1906 United States federal law that expanded the jurisdiction of the Interstate Commerce Commission and gave it the power to set maximum railroad rates.

Elkins Act

prohibits railroad companies from giving rebates to businesses that ship large quantities of goods and giving power to those businesses to artificially lower shipping prices.

Bureau of Corporations

Gather information about companies in order to determine if they were acting in the public interests.

Newlands Reclamation Act

A 1902 law, supported by President Theodore Roosevelt, allowed the federal government to sell public lands to raise money for irrigation projects that expanded agriculture on arid lands.