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Why did Theodore Roosevelt want to break up northern securities and standard oil

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Both were monopolies and President Theodore Roosevelt believed that monopolies, or trusts, were bad for America and the American economy. So he broke them up, especially those trusts that were not playing fair and price-gouging their customers
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