Teddy Roosevelts Square Deal

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• Teddy Roosevelts Square Deal

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The Modern Presidency

• Roosevelt saw the presidency as a
• bully pulpit expanded power of the president
• SQUARE DEAL programs to help all Americans and
  in particular the common people

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1902 Coal Strike

• May 12 October 23, 1902
• Roosevelt called both sides to the White House
• Strike then settled
• Importance from this point on, the federal
  government played a more active role in settling
  labor disputes

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Trust-busting

• Roosevelt concentrated his efforts on filing
  suits under the Sherman Antitrust Act
• Became known as a trustbuster when he filed
  against the northern Securities Company won
  lawsuit
• Filed a total of 44 lawsuits

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Protecting Health

• Upton Sinclair The Jungle - unsanitary
  conditions in the meatpacking industry
• Public outraged
• Roosevelt had an independent investigation same
  conclusion
• Sinclair I aimed at the nations heart, but by
  accident I hit it in the stomach

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Protecting Health

• Meat Inspection Act strict cleanliness
  requirements for meatpackers and created the
  federal program of meat inspection
• Pure Food and Drug Act halted the sale of
  contaminated foods and medications and called for
  truth in labeling

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Conservation and Natural Resources

• Gifford Pinchot head of U. S. Forest Service
• Conservation of wilderness areas and developing
  other areas for the common good
• Water projects for transforming dry areas into
  agricultural areas Roosevelt and Shoshone Dams

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Civil Rights

• Booker T. Washington invited to the White House
  symbolic gesture
• Many African-Americans and W.E.B. DuBois
  criticized Washington for what they saw as a lack
  of commitment to true equality
• 1909 NAACP formed use courts to achieve full
  equality