section 4 Roosevelt's Square Deal

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National Reclamation Act

1902 law that gave the federal government the power to decide where and how water would be distributed through the building and management of dams and irrigation projects.

Meat Inspection Act

1906 law that allowed federal government to inspect meat sold across state lines and required federal inspection of meat processing plants

Pure Food and Drug Act

1906 law that allowed federal inspection of food and medicine and banned the interstate shipment and sale of impure food and the mislabeling of food and drugs.

Hepburn Act

1906 law that gave the government the authority to set railroad rates and maximum prices for ferries,bridge tolls, and oil pipelines.

John Muir

A naturalist who led Congress to establish Yosemite National Park in 1890. He was an influence on Theodore Roosevelt in establishing National Park

New Nationalism

President Theodore Roosevelt's plan to restore the government's trust-busting power.

Square Deal

President Theodore Roosevelt's program reforms to keep the wealthy and powerful from taking advantage of small business owners and the poor

Theodore Roosevelt

became president after William McKinley was assassinated. He supported powerful companies that did business fairly and broke up those that did not gaining the nickname "trust buster"

Gifford Pinchot

led the Division of Forestry under President Roosevelt and helped develop the idea of "rational us' as a land policy.

Progressive Party

political party that merged from the Taft-Roosevelt battle that split the Republican Party in 1912


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