What ended President William H. Taft’s anti-trust efforts was the end of his term in office.
Throughout his administration President Taft consistently launched antitrust cases because he was inclined to believe that courts were to regulate trust activities and not the executive branch of the federal government.
<em>Taft’s asministration did much to continue many progressive measures initiated by Roosevelt and in fact he did more to regulate monopolies than Franklin D. Roosevelt. William Howard Taft was at one point even called “The Trust Buster” when he ordered the prosecution that broke up Standard Oil in 1911.</em>
It was the CSS Virginia that was the Confederacy's first ironclad vessel, built on the hull of the Union ship, USS Merrimack, although it turned out to not be terribly useful in wartime
The unprecedented levels of production in domestic manufacturing and commercial agriculture during this period greatly strengthened the American economy and reduce dependence on imports. The Industrial Revolution resulted in greater wealth and a larger population in Europe as well as in the United States.
