Theodore Roosevelt

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Theodore Roosevelt the Progressives

• TRs First Term
• Social Reforms
• TRs Second Term

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Progressive Movement (p.657)

• Not Radical Reform, preserve the system
• But solve problems of industrialization
• Optimistic about improving life progress
• Problems big business, labor, social welfare,
  the city, consumer protection
• Social science expert investigate, educate, and
  legislate. Use gov power to reform.
• The community over the individual
• Paternalistic, social purity (Protestant roots)
• Change environment-change individual

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TRs First Term1901-1904

• McKinleys Assassination TR only 42
• TRs background
• Changed the Presidency Bully Pulpit,
• Increased power influence of executive
• Booker T Washington visits White House
• Trust Buster Good Bad Trusts ICC
• Antitrust Northern Securities, Standard Oil
  busted up
• Coal Strike 1902 negotiates, threatens, resolves
• Square Deal Gov. intermediary between
• Business and unions protect Individual

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1904 Campaign Buttons
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Roosevelt Family
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TR with John Muir in Yosemite
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Social Reforms Women

• Women active form (professional) groups
• Women can purify, uplift the nation (p.660)
• Social Justice Movement social workers
• Womans Suffrage 19th Amendment 1920
• National American Womans Suffrage Ass.
• Temperance 18th Amendment 1919
• Womans Christian Temperance Union
• Prostitution Mann Act
• Womans Labor Muller v. Oregon
• Louis Brandies

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Patent Medicines
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Patent Medicines
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Patent Medicines
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TRs Second Term 1904-1908

• TR wins reelection against Parker Debbs
• Brownsville Riots TR discharges blacks
• Railroad Regulation ICC strengthened Elkins
  Act, Hepburn Act of 1906
• The Jungle Meat Inspection Act
• Food and Drug Administration
• Samuel Hopkins Adams
• Conservation national forests, John Muir,
• TR raises national preserves to 190 m acres
• Created 5 national parks