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 Video Video  NY Politician  Mom & wife died on same day  1898: Rough Riders (Spanish American War)  William McKinley's VP  Became youngest president.

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1  Video Video  NY Politician  Mom & wife died on same day  1898: Rough Riders (Spanish American War)  William McKinley's VP  Became youngest president (42)  Progressive

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3  Workers wanted raises, 9 hr work day, right to organize a union  Owners wouldn’t compromise  T.R got an arbitration commission  Result:  Legislation?

4  Good and bad trusts  Won many antitrust suits  Northern Securities Company  Legislation?

5  Elkins Act (1903)  Hepburn Act (1906)

6  Muckraker: Upton Sinclair: “The Jungle”  Congress passed: Meat Inspection Act (1906)  Pure Food & Drug Act (1906)

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12  Set aside 148 million acres of forest reserves  1.5 million acres of waterpower sites  80 million of acres to survey for mineral and water resources  Legislation?  National Reclamation Act (1902)

13  Did really nothing to stop racial discrimination  NAACP: (National Assoc. for the advancement for colored people) formed: 1909


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