1. Teddy Roosevelt: The Square Deal

2. The Progressive Era Promoting social welfare
Promoting moral improvement
Creating economic reform
Fostering efficiency

3. Roosevelt’s Rise Born into a wealthy family Asthma sufferer as a child
Drove himself to accomplish demanding physical feats
Marksmanship, horseback riding (he even wrestled and boxed at Harvard)
Roosevelt’s political career took off at an early age. Holding multiple offices at the State level in New York.
Grabbed national attention advocating war against Spain in 1898.
His volunteer Calvary brigade, The Rough Riders, won public acclaim for its role in the battle at San Juan Hill in Cuba.
Roosevelt returned a hero and was soon elected governor of New York.

4. Roosevelt: A Rough Riding President
Impossible to Control
New York did not want Roosevelt in State Office
In 1900, he was encouraged to run as McKinley’s Vice President
However, when McKinley was assassinated in his second term Roosevelt became President, the most powerful man in United States government.

5. The Modern Presidency
Roosevelt acted boldly (just as he had in his childhood)
His Leadership and Publicity Campaigns helped create the Modern Presidency
Making Roosevelt a model by which all future Presidents would be judged.
Roosevelt believed in federal responsibility and a strong central government.
If the states could not perform their duties the President (along with the rest of the Federal government) would step in
“It is the duty of the president to act upon the theory that he is the steward of the people, and…to assume that he has the legal right to do whatever the needs of the people demand, unless the Constitution or the laws explicitly forbid him to do it.”

6. Using Federal Power
Through Roosevelt’s 44 books about history, he was convinced that the U.S. needed a strong federal government.
“A simple and poor society can exist as a democracy on the basis of sheer individualism, but a rich and complex industrial society cannot so exist.”
-Teddy Roosevelt

7. Trustbusting
By 1900, Trusts controlled 4/5 of the industries in the United States
Some had poor reputations while others maintained good reputations
Sherman Antitrust act ineffective
Roosevelt ordered the Justice Department to sue the Northern Securities Company which had established a monopoly over the Northwestern Railroads
The Roosevelt administration filed 44 antitrust suits; however they were unable to slow the merger movement of business.

8. 1902 Coal Strike Demanded: Refused to Bargain Seen by Roosevelt as:
Miners
Mine Operators
Demanded:
20% raise
9-hour workday
Right to organize union
Refused to Bargain
Seen by Roosevelt as:
Extraordinarily stupid and bad tempered
The Miners receive a 10% raise, a 9-hour workday, and they must all belong to a union. They, however, cannot strike for three years.

9. Railroad Regulation Interstate Commerce Act Elkins Act of 1903
Hepburn Act of 1906

10. Regulating Food and Drugs
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Meat Inspection Act
Pure Food and Drug Act

11. Conservation of Natural Resources
Roosevelt realizes that America’s resources are not endless
Gifford Pinchot
Conservation
National Reclamation Act of 1902

12. Newspaper Articles Read Article Completely Answer Questions
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