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Title: Teddy Roosevelt


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Teddy Roosevelts Square Deal
  • Theodore Roosevelt reforms domestic agendas and
    policies

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Theodore RooseveltThe Modern President
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The Modern President26th Pres. 1901-1909 (R)
  • Youngest president ever _at_ 42
  • Govt responsible for citizens
  • Powerful federal govt

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Square Deal
  • reform supported by the Roosevelt administration
  • ICC
  • Elkins Act of 1903 Trustbusting
  • Hepburn Act of 1906
  • Pure Food and Drug Act Conservation
  • Meat inspection Act

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Upton Sinclair1878-1968
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Use everything but the squeal
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I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident
I hit it in the stomach."
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Protecting Citizens Health
  • Meat Inspection Act
  • Strict cleanliness requirements for meatpackers
  • Another form of govt regulation

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Protecting Citizens Health
  • Pure Food and Drug Act
  • Eliminated selling of contaminated foods and
    medicine
  • Also called for truth in labeling

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Federal Arbitration
  • When strikes threaten public well being, the
    federal govt was expected to get involved
  • Govt helps in negotiating between management and
    workers

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Trustbusting
  • Roosevelt believed not all trusts were bad, only
    those who hurt the public interest were bad
  • Steel, oil, beef, tobacco, RR
  • Believed federal govt had the right to regulate
    big business

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Conservation vs. PreservationProtection of
natural resources
  • Conservation
  • Use some, save some
  • Preservation
  • Use none, save all
  • 150 Forest Preserves, 5 National Parks
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