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Why was Theodore Roosevelt nicknamed "trust buster"?

The Supreme Court upheld the break up of the Northern Securities Company on the basis that the company was an illegal combination that acted in restrain of trade. Following the court ruling, Roosevelt used the Sherman Anti-Trust Act to break up other monopolies during his presidency. These actions to regulate big business raised Roosevelt's popularity, contributing to his re-election in 1904.

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What do "BC" and "AD" mean in a timeline?

The calendar runs from the year Jesus Christ was born, which is 1 A.D. The calendar counts backwards from the year 1 B.C. on the B.C. side and forwards on the A.D. side. In other words, the calendar runs 3 B.C., 2 B.C., 1 B.C., 1 A.D., 2 A.D., and so on. Because this method of dividing is Christian-centric, many historians and timelines use "B.C.E." and "C.E." instead. "B.C.E." stands for "before the common era," while "C.E." stands for the "common era."

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Who said "no taxation without representation?"

The English Bill of Rights of 1689 determined taxation of its citizens without representatives in British Parliament illegal. However, the British taxed the colonists, who had no representative in Parliament. In 1773, colonists threw shiploads of taxed tea into the Boston Harbor, in a protest called The Boston Tea Party. The Tea Party escalated differences between the colonists and the British king, and was one of the main precursors to the American Revolutionary War.

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Who were the first known inhabitants of California?

The inhabitants settled in California and other places nearly 10,000 years ago, placing themselves among the areas varied climates and geographical regions. During this time period, the climate was generally warmer throughout the year, making travel much easier. The state's varied topography, including mountains and deserts, kept indigenous groups from traveling large distances at a time. The topography also separated native people, which led to the development of groups with their own lifestyles and cultures, including the Hupa, Pomo and Maidu.

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How did Sir Isaac Newton discover gravity?

This event is often cited as the catalyst for Newton's discovery of gravitational force, which led to later discoveries, such as Newton's laws of motion. Newton’s law of gravity explains how all particles in the universe attract other particles with a force that is equal to the product of the particles' mass and the distance between the particles. This law is expressed in a mathematical equation used to calculate gravitational force.\nThe discovery of the causes and effects of gravitational force allowed Newton to create the three laws of motion. The first law of motion is tha..

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Was Nathan Hale ever married?

Elizabeth Adams, the niece of Nathan Hale's landlord, wrote a remembrance of him after his death, but not much is known of their romance, and she married another man in 1775. Nathan Hale was a teacher who joined the militia in Connecticut and later went to Boston and New York. He became a spy for George Washington and was arrested by the British in 1776, who caught him with intelligence information and sentenced him to death.

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What happened when the longshoremen shut down the ports in Los Angeles?

The Port of Los Angeles is a major shipping gateway to the rest of the United States. The advent of container shipping made it easier and faster to load and unload cargo, but it also made the system more vulnerable. Giant cranes lift the containers out of the holds and settle them on a waiting flatbed truck. The truck either sets off cross country to deliver the goods or heads to a railway yard. Sometimes the containers go directly from ship to train.\nWhen the Los Angeles ports shut down, no one was there to operate the cranes. Ships already docked couldn't leave, costing the shipping co..

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When did the thirteen colonies come into existence?

The first of the Thirteen Colonies was Jamestown, which was founded by The London Company in 1607. Massachusetts was founded in 1620, followed by New Hampshire in 1623 and Maryland between 1632 and 1634. The fifth of the colonies, Connecticut, came into existence in 1635. Rhode Island followed in 1636. In 1638, Delaware was founded, initially as a part of New Sweden, followed by New Carolina and South Carolina in 1653 and New York in 1664. The last three colonies were New Jersey, founded in 1664, Pennsylvania, founded in 1682 and Georgia, which came into existence long after the others, in 173..

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When did Nevada become a state?

Nevada was proclaimed a state by United States President Abraham Lincoln at a time when the Civil War was taking place between Union and Confederate forces. This proclamation came after an overwhelming support of the newly crafted state constitution by Nevada voters in September of 1864. The state is also known by a number of nicknames including Sagebrush State, Silver State and Battle Born State. The capital of this state is known as Carson City.

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Who was involved in the Intolerable Acts?

The Intolerable Acts were highly opposed by the colonists and took away a number of the freedoms that the Americans had come to know. They lost their charter, had to give up buildings and homes to British soldiers who needed quarters and couldn't use the Boston harbor. Members of the British government couldn't be tried for crimes in the colonies and gave a large amount of the colonies to the territory of Quebec.

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