17.3 Teddy Roosevelt

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17.3 Teddy Roosevelts Square Deal

• OBJECTIVE Understand the reforms of
  Roosevelts Administration

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Theodore Roosevelt

• Governor of NY. Reformer. Hero of Spanish
  American War.
• Nominated to be Vice-President by Republican
  party bosses.
• WHY??
• 1901 Pres. McKinley assassinated, TR becomes
  President.
• Creates the modern presidency b/c of his
  popularity with the public and use of
  media/press.
• Uses White House as a bully pulpit
• What did he do to turn it into a bully pulpit?

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How did Roosevelt redefine Federal Power?

• 2. Arbitrates the 1902 Coal Strike
• What was happening in the coal mines?
• Threatened to assume control of mines
• HISTORICAL
• SIGNIFICANCE
• Govt. did not automatically back big business

• 1. Square Deal
• Roosevelts package of reforms
• Expands the use of federal power to reform US
• Why was it called the Square Deal?

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• 4. Railroad regulation
• Elkins Act of 1903 - illegal for railroads to
  give or receive rebates
• Hepburn Act of 1906 - strictly limited the
  distribution of free railroad passes
• These gave the Interstate Commerce Commission
  more power to curb the railroads power through
  federal regulation.

• 3. Trust Busting
• Mixed record of success
• Mixed message - considers some trusts good and
  other bad.
• Focused on filing suits under Sherman Antitrust
  Act of 1902
• Filed 44 antitrust lawsuits

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Roosevelt and REFORM

• PROTECTING HEALTH
• 1906 Meat Inspection Act
• Dictated strict cleanliness for meat factories
• (reaction to Upton Sinclairs The Jungle)
• What did The Jungle say?
• 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act

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PROTECTING HEALTH

• 1906 Meat Inspection Act
• Dictated strict cleanliness for meat factories
• (reaction to Upton Sinclairs The Jungle)
• What did The Jungle say?
• 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act
• Halted the sale of contaminated food and
  medicines and called for truth in labeling

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Roosevelt and REFORM

• CONSERVATION
• Created US Forest Service
• Creates over 50 national parks wilderness areas

• CIVIL RIGHTS
• Ambiguous record dealing with Civil Rights
• Hosted Booker T. Washington at White House,
• Yet, did not embrace reforms of NAACP
• What was the goal of the NAACP?

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TERMS

• Theodore Roosevelt
• Square Deal
• The Jungle
• Upton Sinclair
• Meat Inspection Act
• Pure Food and Drug Act
• Conservation
• NAACP

• OBJECTIVE Understand the reforms of Roosevelts
  Administration