9. What did the progressives do to make food and drugs safer for the people of the U.S.?Foods without labels/expiration dates. Passed laws that said food had to have lables, this was started by the USDA. It was made so people would not get sick from like bad meat and stuff. There was a book that was wrote to keep make people aware of the nasty meat. The book was called The Jungle. In the book the author gave examples of what was going into the meat. When people ate meat in those days, people were not eating only the beef but also thigs like rats, feces, rat poisons, saw duct, ect. Upton Sinclaire was the author of The Jungle.Back in those days, I'm thinking I would be a vegetarian. There was the Meat Inspection Act to make sure that meat was safe to eat.Back in the days there were a lot of medicines that were not actual drugs, they were just sugar, and also there were medicines that contained addictive drugs. These were part of the Pure Food and Drug Act which made foods safer.Today they have a lot more information about foods on the labels.-Greg Conry10. What did progressives (Teddy Roosevelt) do to help conserve land and resources in our country?11. What did progressives do to regulate businesses in the United States?Before- before there were monopolies, the businesses were mainly in control. The policy of the united states on businesses was the laissez-faire, other known as "hands off." The monopolies controlled the farms and the rivers.During- Roosevelt called himself the "Trust-Buster" The Sherman Anti-Trust Act. Roosevelt was a president that sided with the common workers, instead of the big mine thing or whatever. We now interupt this blog with an announcement from Mr. Bruns... you can make a "trust-busters" video instead of a normal blog, or you can make it for extra credit. Moving on...... The ICC was the Interstate Commerce Commision which formed the Interstate Commerce Act which enforced the railroads companies to set a certain rate for people to make sure that everyone was being fair. According to Mr. Bruns, Teddy Roosevelt was a stud. Wildrow Wilson and the Clayton Anti-Trust Act- made when the Sherman Anti Trust Act failed, this act allowed the government to break up monopolies. The Federal Trade Commission- this stopped big businesses from doing unfair things, and it would breakup companies that were doing theings that were unfairly monopolistic.President Taft broke up more trust than Roosevelt, and Wilson broke up more than Taft.Today there is still the federal trade commission, the ICC was shutdown in 1995. The remaining functions of the ICC were transferred to another little act thing. The FCT continues consumer protection and cohersive monopolies.-Tara Benner
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