1. Chapter 22 APUSH Mrs. Price
Don’t let the best you have done so far be the standard for the rest of your life.” Gustavus Swift

2. Theodore Roosevelt Assistant Sec. of Navy Rough Rider
Becomes president after assassination of McKinley

3. Roosevelt & Big Business
Believed govt should have power to investigate corps & break up trusts if they were harmful to US economy
Northern Securities CO: railroad monopoly Roosevelt went after
Coal Strike (1902): Roosevelt threatens govt takeover to force federal arbitration

4. Roosevelt’s Presidency
Square Deal (1904 Campaign)
1. Hepburn Act (1906)
2. Pure Food & Drug Act
3. Meat Inspection Act

5. Conservation
Roosevelt was concerned about unregulated exploitation of natural resources
Added million of acres to national forest system
Believed in managed development
National Reclamation Act (Newlands Act) 1902

6. Preservation
Added to National Park system
Hetch Hetchy controversy

8. Panic of 1907 Recession Too much production for markets
Poor financial management

9. William Howard Taft Roosevelt’s successor
Elected in 1908 over William Jennings Bryan

10. Taft’s Presidency Payne-Aldrich Tariff
- disappointment to Progressives
Ballinger-Pinchot Dispute
- angers Progressives & Roosevelt

11. 1912 Election Candidates: 1. Rep: Taft 2. Dem: Woodrow Wilson
3. Progressive: T. Roosevelt
4. Socialist: Debs
Taft & Roosevelt split vote; Wilson wins

13. Woodrow Wilson President of Princeton & governor of NJ
Firm control over cabinet
Created coalition in Congress to support his policies

14. Wilson’s Presidency Underwood-Simmons Tariff: lowered tariff
16th Amendment: Graduated income tax
Federal Reserve Act (1913): reformed banking system
Federal Trade Commission (1914): agency to investigate unfair business practices
Clayton Antitrust Act (1914)

15. Post-midterm election Reforms
Louis Brandeis to Supreme Court
Workers’ comp for federal employees
Credit for farmers
Keating-Owen Act (1916): regulated child labor

16. Foreign Policy: Roosevelt
Activist
Civilized vs. Uncivilized nations
Peace Conference in Portsmouth, NH
Venezuelan debt conflict
Roosevelt Corollary
Construction of Panama
Canal

17. TR in Panama (Construction begins in 1904)
Panama Canal
TR in Panama (Construction begins in 1904)

18. Foreign Policy: Taft Worked to advance US economic interests overseas
Dollar Diplomacy
US intervention in Nicaragua Revolution

19. Taft’s “Dollar Diplomacy”
Improve financial opportunities for American businesses.
Use private capital to further U. S. interests overseas.
Therefore, the U.S. should create stability and order abroad that would best promote America’s commercial interests.

20. Foreign Policy: Wilson
US established military govt in Dominican Republic
Bought Virgin Islands from Denmark
Treaty with Nicaragua giving US right to intervene to protect American interests
Incident with Mexico (Veracruz & Pancho Villa)

21. The Mexican Revolution: 1910s
Emiliano Zapata
Pancho Villa
Venustiano Carranza
Porfirio Diaz
Francisco I Madero

22. Wilson’s “Moral Diplomacy”
The U. S. should be the conscience of the world.
Spread democracy.
Promote peace.
Condemn colonialism.