1. Teddy Roosevelt’s Square Deal
Chapter 9, Section 3

2. Teddy Roosevelt

3. Roosevelt Becomes President
42 years old = youngest president ever
Progressive reforms = Square Deal
Expanded role of president

4. Using Federal Power “Trust-buster” Gov’t. intervention in strikes
Against big business
Gov’t. intervention in strikes
Elkins Act, 1903
Rebates are illegal
Hepburn Act, 1906
Eliminate railroad passes

6. Health Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle Meat Inspection Act, 1906
Pure Food and Drug Act, 1906
Stopped sales of contaminated food
Labels must have true information

7. The Jungle

8. Mad Cow Disease

9. Conservation and Natural Resources
Conservation vs. preservation
Saving vs. not using
Gifford Pinchot
National Reclamation Act, 1902

10. Gifford Pinchot

11. John Muir

12. Roosevelt Dam

13. Roosevelt and Civil Rights
Failed to support civil rights for African Americans
Supported individual African Americans
NAACP, 1909
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
W.E.B. DuBois