"What gave it the identify "Progressive" was that new guidelines had been handed. Less than Theodore Roosevelt, there was the Meat Inspection Act, the Hepburn Act to manage railroads and pipelines, a Pure Food stuff and Drug Act. Under Taft, the Mann Elkins Act put telephone and telegraph devices under the regulation from the Interstate Commerce Commission. In Woodrow Wilson's presidency, the Federal Trade Fee was introduced to regulate the growth of monopolies, and the Federal Reserve Act to…See More