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Teddy Roosevelt the Trustbuster - Trainwreck - US History - Part 4 - Extra History

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The Hepburn Rate Act , named after the man who introduced it, would empower the ICC to regulate railroad shipping rates in the interest of businesses small and large.

Roosevelt will have to broker deals and make alliances to get the bill through, including with the congressman he hates most.

The bill passed the House of Representatives , where progressive Republicans were a major force without amendment.

Franklin Roosevelt and Benjamin Tillman loathed each other.

Tillman led a paramilitary terrorist militia called the Red Shirts in a campaign of voter intimidation and murder against South Carolina's black community.

The two men were feuding over railroad trusts, but Roosevelt reached out to Tillman , opening a channel of communication to negotiate on the bill.

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