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By Teresa and Melody
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Teddy Roosevelt was not supposed to be president New York political bosses found him hard to control Wanted to make him vice president so he ‘could do no damage’ Senator Mark Hanna realized that he was so close to being the one in charge President McKinley was assassinated after six months into his second term
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Teddy even though was suffering from asthma he drove himself to accomplish demanding physical feats. After serving three terms in New York State assembly he became New York’s police commissioner Then assistant secretary to the navy He led the Rough Riders in the war with Spain in 1898 -cont-
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One public acclaim for its role at the battle of San Juan Hill in Cuba Roosevelt won the election becoming Governor of New York
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1901 youngest president being at 42 Boxed with professionals when president and ended up getting blinded in one eye When hunting he spared a bear cub which started the production of the Teddy Bear
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Square Deal was used to describe the progressive reforms in Roosevelt Administration In 1902 140,000 coal miners in Pennsylvania went on strike The demanded 20% raise, 9 hour days, and the right to organize a union 5 months into the strike coal reserves ran low causing schools and factories to close down and hospitals to run cold. Roosevelt stepped in to stop strike and he threatened to take mines but both sides finally agreed an arbitration commissions
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1903 the commission increased work wages and reduced work days They won 10% pay raise and a 9 hour day but gave up the right to close shop(all workers must belong to union) and their right to strike for 3 years
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Whenever there was a strike he was expected to step in By 1900s trust controlled 4/5 of the industries in the US Some trusts had poor reputations Trusts lowered prices to drive competitors out of market then take advantage of the lack of competition to jack up prices 1890 congress passed Sherman Antitrust Act The vague language made it hard to enforce All seats filed were ineffective Roosevelt did not believe all trust were harmful Sought to curb trusts when their actions hurt the public interests
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1902 Roosevelt made headlines as a trustbuster 1904 the Supreme courts ordered the dissolution of the Northern Securities Company Roosevelt sued the meat trust, oil trust, tobacco trust Roosevelt Administration filed 44 anti trust suits Government broke up some trusts but could not slow movements 1987 Congress passed the Interstate Commerce Act-prohibited pools in which railroad runners divided the business in a certain area and shared the profit Interstate Commerce Commission created to enforce the new law
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The Elkins Act of 1903 made it illegal for railroad officers and shippers either to give or receive rebates Also specified that once a railroad had set rates it couldn’t change them without notifying the public The Hepburn Act of 1906 strictly limited the distribution of free railroad passes a common form of bribery
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The Jungle by Upton Sinclair published in 1906 that portrayed the disgusting conditions prevalent in the meat packing industry Roosevelt appointed a commission of experts to report of the accuracy of Sinclair’s descriptions The investigating commission issued a scathing report that backed up Sinclair’s description of “potted ham” as hash whose disgusting ingredients included ground rope and pig skin
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1906 Roosevelt passed the Meat Inspection Act which dictated strict cleanliness requirements for meat packers and created the program of Federal Meat Inspection that was used for decades Pure Food and Drug Act was passed in 1906 halted the sale of contaminated foods and medicines and called for truth in labeling Before Pure Food and Drug Act manufactures had advertised that their products accomplished everything from curing cancer to growing hair Popular kids medicine often contained opium, cocaine, or alcohol Colden’s liquid beef tonic recommended for “treatment of alcohol habit” itself contained a dose of 26.5% alcohol Pure Food and Drug Act did not ban harmful products out right
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Roosevelt banned Christmas trees in the white house in 1902 He set aside 148 million acres of forest reserves Also set aside 1.5 million acres of water- power sites and another 80 million acres of land that experts from the U.S. Geological Survey would explore for mineral and water resources Established more than 50 wildlife sanctuaries and several national parks
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Roosevelt did not support civil rights for African Americans He did support a few individual African Americans Roosevelt appointed an African American as head of the Charleston, South Carolina, custom house In 1906, he angered many African Americans when he dismissed without question an entire regiment of African American soldiers accused of rioting in Brownsville, Texas In 1909, a number of African Americans joined with prominent white reformers in New York to found the National Advancement of Colored People(NAACP) The NAACP had about 6,000 members by 1914
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