1. 17.3 Teddy Roosevelt’s Square Deal
OBJECTIVE: Understand the reforms of Roosevelt’s Administration

2. Identify and discuss four ways Pres
Identify and discuss four ways Pres. Roosevelt re-defined federal power during his presidency
Establishes Square Deal
1902 Coal Strike
Trust-busting
Railroad Regulation

3. Roosevelt’s Progressive Presidency

4. Theodore Roosevelt
Governor of NY. Reformer. Hero of Spanish American War.
Nominated to be Vice-President by Republican party bosses.
WHY??
1901 Pres. McKinley assassinated, TR becomes President.
Creates the “modern presidency” b/c of his popularity with the public and use of media/press.
Uses White House as a “bully pulpit”

5. How did Roosevelt redefine Federal Power?
2. Arbitrates the Coal Strike
Threatened to assume control of mines
HISTORICAL
SIGNIFICANCE:
Govt. did not automatically back big business
1. “Square Deal”
Roosevelt’s package of reforms
Expands the use of federal power to reform US
Why was it called the Square Deal?

6. 4. Railroad regulation 3. Trust Busting
Elkins Act of illegal for railroads to give or receive rebates
Hepburn Act of strictly limited the distribution of free railroad passes
These gave the Interstate Commerce Commission more power to curb the railroads power through federal regulation.
3. Trust Busting
Mixed record of success
Mixed message - considers some trusts good and other bad.
Focused on filing suits under Sherman Antitrust Act of 1902
Filed 44 antitrust lawsuits

7. Identify and Discuss President Roosevelt’s actions and policies in the areas of:
PROTECTING CITIZENS’ HEALTH
PROTECTING THE ENVIRONMENT
POSITION ON CIVIL RIGHTS

8. Roosevelt and REFORM PROTECTING HEALTH 1906: Meat Inspection Act:
Dictated strict cleanliness for meat factories
(reaction to Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle)
What did The Jungle say?
1906: Pure Food and Drug Act

9. PROTECTING HEALTH 1906: Meat Inspection Act:
Dictated strict cleanliness for meat factories
(reaction to Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle)
What did The Jungle say?
1906: Pure Food and Drug Act
Halted the sale of contaminated food and medicines and called for truth in labeling

10. Roosevelt and REFORM CONSERVATION CIVIL RIGHTS
Created US Forest Service
Creates over 50 national parks & wilderness areas
CIVIL RIGHTS
Ambiguous record dealing with Civil Rights
Hosted Booker T. Washington at White House,
Yet, did not embrace reforms of NAACP
What was the goal of the NAACP?

11. Theodore Roosevelt cartoon "A nauseating job, but it must be done"
Upton Sinclair's novel, The Jungle, published in 1906, prompted President Theodore Roosevelt to order an investigation of Sinclair's allegations about unsanitary practices. Roosevelt then used the results of that investigation to pressure Congress into approving new federal legislation to inspect meatpacking. (Utica Saturday Globe)
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12. Stamp--"US Inspected and Condemned"
Upton Sinclair's novel, The Jungle, published in 1906, prompted President Theodore Roosevelt to order an investigation of Sinclair's allegations about unsanitary practices. Roosevelt then used the results of that investigation to pressure Congress into approving new federal legislation to inspect meatpacking, including a stamp such as the one shown here for condemned meat. (Chicago Historical Society)
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13. Patent medicine
Patent medicine
Makers of unregulated patent medicines advertised exorbitant results from using their products. This ad, while warning against "fraudulent claims," asserts that a wide belt can cure a variety of ailments. The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 did not ban such products but tried to prevent manufacturers from making such unsubstantiated statements. (Picture Research Consultants & Archives)
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14. Theodore Roosevelt with John Muir at Yosemite, 1903
In 1903, at Yosemite National Park, Theodore Roosevelt met with John Muir, a leading advocate for the preservation of wilderness. While Roosevelt made important contributions to the preservation of parks and wildlife refuges, he was more interested in the careful management of national resources, including federal lands. (Yosemite Museum)
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15. Report of the National conservation commission. February, 1909
Report of the National conservation commission. February, Special message from the President of the United States transmitting a report of the National Conservation commission, with accompanying papers ... Ed. under the direction of the Ex SPECIAL MESSAGE OF THE PRESIDENT TRANSMITTING THE REPORT OF THE NATIONAL CONSERVATION COMMISSION
The underlying principle of conservation has been described as the application of common sense to common problems for the common good. If the description is correct, then conservation is the great fundamental basis for national efficiency. In this stage of the world's history, to be fearless, to be just, and to be efficient are the three great requirements of national life. National efficiency is the result of natural resources well handled, of freedom of opportunity for every man, and of the inherent capacity, trained ability, knowledge, and will, collectively and individually, to use that opportunity.

16. TERMS Theodore Roosevelt Square Deal The Jungle Upton Sinclair
Meat Inspection Act
Pure Food and Drug Act
Conservation
NAACP
OBJECTIVE: Understand the reforms of Roosevelt’s Administration