1. Teddy Roosevelt’s Square Deal
Homework:
-17.3 Guided Reading
When President William McKinley was assassinated 6 months into his second term, Theodore Roosevelt became the nations 26th president
McKinley was assassinated by an anarchist in Buffalo in September of 1901

2. THE MODERN PRESIDENT
became youngest POTUS ever (42)
used White House as a “Bully Pulpit”  active gov’t that protected the people
- Progressive Movement ally

3. Trust Regulator > TRust BusTeR
By 1900, Trusts controlled 80% of industries
preserve capitalism w/ a little restraint and common sense
weapon  Sherman Antitrust Act
- filed 44 antitrust suits
“good trusts” vs. “bad trusts”
- good ones left alone
- attacked bad ones (defined as: exploit best interests of consumers)

5. Helping Hand for Labor
1902: coal strike in PA
called for better pay, shorter hours, union recognition
- owners refused
TR stepped in to arbitrate
threatened use of army to take of mine
compromise reached
- 10% wage increase
- 9 hour work day
- no union recognition

6. Health
Upton Sinclair, The Jungle
- intent  expose conditions of capitalism on workers in Chicago meatpacking industry
public focused on products sold
- chemicals on spoiled meat to hide smell
- animal parts ground up and sold as meat jelly and sausage
- Rat excrement on meat
- dead rats and spoiled meat ground up in sausage
“aimed for America's heart and instead hit its stomach”
Meat Inspection Act  cleanliness requirements and federal inspections

9. Pure Food and Drug Act
Pure Food and Drug Act in 1906 in response to:
- unregulated claims
- unhealthy products
halted sale of contaminated foods and medicine
called for truth in labeling

10. Conservation
depletion natural resources (mining, over farming, logging, etc)
Sierra Club  stop sale of public lands to private investors
- John Muir president
TR conservation
- 150,000,000 acres deemed nat’l forest (Yosemite and Yellowstone)  Gifford Pinchot head of US Forest Services
- sold some  used funds to develop others (dams)
Newlands Act  federal gov’t regulate irrigation