Taft Administration - Domestic Issues
Domestic Issues
By the time William H. Taft assumed the presidency, the United States was rapidly becoming a more urban and industrialized nation. The rise of this modern society presented new challenges, which by the beginning of the twentieth century many people felt the federal government should address. In particular certain powerful collections of companies, called trusts, had developed into giant monopolies, with the ability to unfairly control prices in the marketplace and exploit resources and people on a vast scale. Furthermore, many journalists, called muckrakers because they "dug up" unpleasant facts and presented them to the public, were publicizing social ills ranging from unsafe foods and products to corruption and bribery in government. These too led to public calls for reform. The most powerful of the reform movements to arise in response to these conditions was called the Progressive movement.
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