The supreme court ordered the end to school segregation, and declared it illegal and unconstitutional
in <span>Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954), the supreme court issued a land mark ruling that held that </span>state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. As a result the ruling <span>outlawed segregated public education facilities for blacks and whites at the state level, which came as a major victory for the civil rights movement.
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Answer: He enforced the Sherman Antitrust Act.
Context/history:
The Sherman Anti-Trust Act was the first measure by Congress to prohibit trusts. It was passed by Congress in 1890. A trust was when stockholders in multiple companies transferred their stock shares to a single group of trustees. Thus a whole industry area could be dominated by a single "trust" organization, destroying the free market of business competition. This was a monopolistic practice which the Sherman Anti-Trust Act ended. Thus the Sherman Anti-Trust Act directly went against the idea of those who believed business success should be based on large business owners colluding with one another.
Initially the Sherman Antitrust Act was not well enforced by US courts. But when Theodore ("Teddy") Roosevelt took office as President in 1901, he pushed enforcement of the Act and worked to reign in the power of big businesses.
Note:
The Clayton Antitrust Act was passed by Congress in 1914, after Teddy Roosevelt was no longer President.
There were few or no rules or conditions attached for people to hold office under the spoils system. This was the system in which any political party that wins the election can give government jobs to its supporters or relatives or friends and relatives for their support. This system did not look for the quality of the person holding the post.
D. A worldview based on rationality rather than emotions
