1. ROOSEVELT’S SQUARE DEAL
Chapter Four Section Four

2. A. Theodore Roosevelt
War hero
Seasoned politician
Dedicated reformer?
Became President in 1901

3. Program of reform to help small business owners and the poor
B. The Square Deal
Program of reform to help small business owners and the poor
“Trust-busting”
1906 Hepburn Act regulated railroad shipping charges

5. C. Government regulation for Public Safety
Upton Sinclair’s novel , The Jungle
Meat Inspection Act
The Pure Food and Drug Act

7. D. Conservation Expansion of national parks John Muir-Yosemite
Gifford Pinchot,- “rational use”
National Reclamation Act-government power to build and manage dams and to control water

9. E. The New Nationalism Government Management of Industry
Roosevelt opposed Taft’s ‘betrayal” of Progressivism
1912 Republicans split
Roosevelt forms Progressive(“Bull Moose”) Party