They kept power by maintaining fear. Continuously spying on citizens. Taking away books for them to learn. Taking away guns to protect themselves
Roosevelt and Taft served 26th and 27th
President of the U.S, respectively. Roosevelt sought to regulate trusts, and
that included prosecuting big businesses that restrained trade and charged
unfair prices, stamp out corruption, and also increased prestige of the U.S.
Taft, the successor, continued anti-trust policies but failed to exhibit in the
area of Civil Rights. Taft would not appoint African Americans to federal jobs,
unlike Roosevelt.
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B, the founding fathers wrote in the DoI that their rights were not being protected and were violated.
