HIS 315L Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Northern Securities Company, Federal Meat Inspection Act, Upton Sinclair
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All reforms sought to cure what people saw as the abuses of unrestrained capitalism or problems that emerged with urban industrial expansion. Middle class reformers (bellamy & george, social gospel, populists) All populist ideas (except silver) became law. Populism that cleaned up and moved up into the middle class . Re-evaluate or reject capitalism, unrestrained capitalism is bad. Large problems that cannot be controlled by the state. National government has to pursue activism to achieve reforms. Moderate amount of national action is necessary (see below) Regulatory liberalism capitalism but with some restraint. Moderate amount of national action to achieve reforms. Was a socialist party during this time socialism: government ownership of all private enterprise. Established dept of commerce and bureau of corp. Invoked sherman antitrust act in over 40 lawsuits. Hepburn act set max rr rates and strengthened the icc: consumer protection and conservation, meat inspection act 1906 i. ii. Tr investigation mia: pure food and drug act 1906.
