9.3 Teddy Roosevelt's Square Deal

Upton Sinclair

A muckraking journalist who wrote "The Jungle"

Pure Food and Drug Act

a law enacted in 1906 to halt the sale of foods and drugs and to ensure truth in labeling

Meat Inspection Act

a law, enacted in 1906, that established strict cleanliness requirements for meatpackers and created a federal meat-inspection program

The Jungle

a novel by Upton Sinclair , published in 1906, portrays the dangerous and unhealthy conditions prevalent in the meatpacking industry at the time

NAACP

national association for the advancement of colored people, founded in 1909 to promote full racial equality

Square Deal

president roosevelt's program of progressive reforms designed to protect the common people against big business

Conservation

the planned management of natural resources, involving the protection of some wilderness areas and the development of others for the common good

Theodore Roosevelt

vice president for President McKinley until the president was assassinated