Conservation- The U.S Forest Bureau in 1887 withdrew 45 million ares of timberlands for a national forest reserve.
Mining companies refused to save some land, ranchers grazed their cattle on the land, and the logging men kept cutting down trees.
Cities dumped untreated sewage into rivers poisioning some water resources.
The Federal Goverment preserved many acres of land for forest and Timbers. Theodore Roosevelt's idea of water projects helped transform dry wilderness areas to make agriculture possible in that area.
They created dams in the West to help preserve water resources and for the most part it worked.
Monopolies- The Clayton Antitrust Act prohibited corporations aquire stock from another and if they do they would create a monopoly, and if a company violated this law, its officers could be prosecuted.
A monopoly was when a business took over another business or corporation and take control of by over-powering them.Monopolies were made illegal in 1890 by the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. It was called Anti-Trust because that was the form that monopolies held in those days.
A group of companies formed a trust to fix prices low enough to drive competitors out of business. Once they had a monopoly on the market, these trusts would raise prices to regain their profit.
http://economics.about.com/cs/microeconomics/a/monopoly.htm
Taxation/Banking- Larger incomes were taxed at higher rates then smaller incomes. This was known as the Federal Income Tax.
The tax would tax familes over $4,000 that ranged from 1% to 6%.
The goverment would receive more money on income tax than on gaining from tariffs. (Taxes on imports.)
Woodrow Wilson spent his attention toward financial crisis, and he focused on the banks and money.
Wilson passed a law so their would be a bank in every district to help the common people with money or loans.
Federal Reserve banks could distribute new paper in emergency situations, and they could also transfer funds to member banks in trouble with finances.
By 1973 70% of the nations banking resources was a part of the Federal Reserve System. This was Wilson's best accomplishment.
Aid Organizations- Helping the Poor- Some people set up work relief for the poor.
When their was a flood or a natural disaster some city workers helped build new schools, parks, and etc.
Common people would serve meals to the poor and help them in any other way they could.
Their were organizations that helped build and reform cities after hurricanes or floods.
Citizens played an active role in aiding anyone that needed it, and played an important role in the city goverment.
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