Roosevelt

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Roosevelts Presidency

• Chapter 13 Sec. 2

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Vice President ? President

• President McKinley is assassinated.
• Teddy Roosevelt becomes president.
• Square Dealhelp regulate and reform big
  business
• Hepburn Actsupport RR rates for trade

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Social Welfare

• Consumer protection against harmful products
• Upton SinclairThe Junglewrote about meat
  packing plants in Chicago
• Pure Food and Drug Acttested and approved food
  and drugs

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Conservation

• Use federal funds for irrigation
• Management of natural resources
• Established national
• parks and wildlife
• reserves

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Trust Buster

• Northern Securities- used Sherman Antitrust Act
  to break up trust.
• United Mine Workers- (arbitration)

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Progressivism

• Teddy Roosevelt pushed for progress and expanded
  the role of the presidency (executive dept.)