Chapter 8 Section 2

Social Darwinist

As a _______ President Theodore Roosevelt believed that the United States was in competition with other nations.

Efficient Society

As a progressive, Roosevelt believed government should adopt reforms to maintain an ___________.

Public land sales

In 1902, Roosevelt supported passage of a law authorizing the use of funds from________ to pay for irrigation projects in the West.

Meat Inspection Act

In 1906, Upton Sinclair's observations in The Jungle resulted in passage of the __________ regulating the food industry.

Arbitration

In the Coal Strike of 1902, Roosevelt urged the union and the owners to accept ________, which is a settlement imposed by an outside party....

Conserve

Realizing the nation's bountiful resources were being used up at an alarming rate, Roosevelt urged Americans to ________ these resources.

National Forests

Roosevelt backed efforts to save ________, and established many new national parks and wildlife refuges.

1. Mineral resources & Public Resources 2. Private development

Suspicion of Taft's secretary of the interior grew when he tried to make nearly a million acres of __________ available for __________.

National Forests

Taft also set up the Bureau of Mines to monitor the mining companies, expanded __________, and prevented development of water power sites.

Roosevelt

Taft believed ______ limited competition, hurt consumers, and protected the trusts.

Children's Bureau

Taft established the _________, a federal agency that investigated and publicized child labor problems.

Payne- Aldrich Tarrif

When Taft accepted the ___________, which cut tariffs hardly at all and raised them on some goods, his standing among Republican progressives deteriorated,

Hepburn Act

To regulate big business without breaking up trusts, Roosevelt convinced Congress to pass the _________ to strengthen the Interstate Commerce Commission.