Objective: How did Roosevelt use the power of the government to regulate business?
Roosevelt negotiated between workers and management in order to keep coal production going. He sued trusts under the Sherman Antitrust Act in order to keep big business from harming people. He urged Congress to strengthen the ICC and Hepburn Act which lim
How did Roosevelt protect public health and the environment?
Roosevelt pushed for the passage of the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act which required strict cleanliness requirement for meatpackers and halted the sale of contaminated foods and medicines.He passed the Newlands Act which funded irriga
Teddy Roosevelt
HE became president in 1901.
- he was bold ambitious, and full of energy
- he had been active in sports and politics.
- his personality made him a popular president
Rough Riders
In the Spanish-American War he led THIS fighting unit.
Square Deal
Roosevelt used his popularity to get his programs passed.
He wanted to see that the common people received what he called THIS.
- this term referred to a program of progressive reforms sponsored by his administration
Trusts
President Roosevelt used the power of the government to help solve the nation's problems.
THIS is the term used when a large companies had control over the their markets.
Sherman Anti-trust Act 1890
By 1900, trusts controlled about 80% of U.S. industries.
Roosevelt supported big business, but he also wanted to stop trusts that harmed people.
He had the government sue harmful trusts under THIS.
trustbuster
In all, Roosevelt filed 44 antitrust suits.
Roosevelt was called THIS for his efforts against trusts.
coal miners
In 1902, about 140,000 of THESE in Pennsylvania went on strike.
The mine owners refused to negotiate with them.
arbitration
President Roosevelt called both sides to the White House to talk. He threatened to have the government take over the mines. The two sides agreed to settle their differences with THIS type of commission. From then on, the federal government would often ste
Interstate Commerce Commission 1887 (ICC)
In 1887, THIS had been set up to regulate the railroad industries.
It had not been effective.
Hepburn Act 1906
Roosevelt pushed through laws such as THIS Act of 1906, which strictly limited the distribution of free railroad passes, a common form of bribery.
Roosevelt's efforts resulted in fairer shipping rates and less corruption in the railroad industry.
Upton Sinclair
The journalist who wrote the Jungle, (1906), exposing the horrors of the meat packing industry.
Meat Inspection Act 1906
After reading the Jungle, Roosevelt pushed for passage of THIS federal food regulation law that followed Roosevelt's investigation of the meatpacking industry.
Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906
Also in 1906, Congress passed THIS ACT which halted the sale of contaminated foods and medicines and called for truth in labeling.
conservation
Roosevelt and Pinchot believed in THIS, the planned management of natural resources.
They believed that some land should be preserved as wilderness while other areas would be developed for the common good.
Newlands Act
Roosevelt and Pinchot were opposed by HIM, who believed in complete preservation of the wilderness.
Indeed, Roosevelt signed THIS ACT which funded irrigation projects that transformed dry wilderness into land suitable for agriculture.
Booker T. Washington
Roosevelt supported individual African Americans like THIS founder of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute.
But he did not help African Americans in general.
NAACP
In 1909, black leaders, including W.E.B. Du Bois founded THIS organization which pushed for civil rights and racial equality.
middle-class-whites
The progressive movement, however, continued to focus on on the needs of THIS group.