Theodore Roosevelt: The Beginnings of Progressive Presidencies
Bad Trusts ____________
were greedy for power
Trust-busting
(law) government activities seeking to dissolve corporate trusts and monopolies (especially under the United States antitrust laws)
William McKinley
25th president responsible for Spanish-American War, Philippine-American War, and the Annexation of Hawaii, imperialism. Is assassinated by an anarchist Theodore Roosevelt was his VP.
Theodore Roosevelt
26th president, known for: conservationism, trust-busting, Hepburn Act, safe food regulations, "Square Deal," Panama Canal, Great White Fleet, Nobel Peace Prize for negotiation of peace in Russo-Japanese War
Northern Securities Company
A railroad monopoly formed by J.P. Morgan and James J. Hill which violated Sherman Antitrust Act
Why did T. Roosevelt become a conservationist?
After his wife and mother died on the same day, he went to seek peace in nature in the Badlands of the Dakotas.
Square Deals 3 Cs
Control of Corporations, Consumer protection, Conservation of Natural Resources
Square Deal
Economic policy by T. Roosevelt that favored fair relationships between companies and workers
Department of Commerce and Labor
Established in 1903- it was to help Theodore Roosevelt in eliminating most corporate abuses through its investigatory arm, the Bureau of Corporations. The Bureau of Corporations helped break the stronghold of monopolies.
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
First federal action against monopolies, it was signed into law by Harrison and was extensively used by Theodore Roosevelt for trust-busting.
Hepburn Act of 1906
Strenghtened the Interstate Commerce Act by allowing the ICC to truly nullify existing rates of the railroads
Coal Strike of 1902
Strike by the United Coal Workers of America, threatening to shut down the winter coal supply. Theodore Roosevelt intervened federally, and resolved the disput through arbitration.
1906 Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food & Drug Act
These two acts were written after "The Jungle"
The Jungle
This 1906 work by Upton Sinclair pointed out the abuses of the meat packing industry. The book led to the passage of the 1906 Meat Inspection Act.
What was T. Roosevelt's real purpose in trustbusting?
To prove the government, not business, ruled the country
T. Roosevelt believe that Bad Trusts should be _________
broken up
T. Roosevelt believed Good Trusts should be ______________
controlled
The Newlands Act allowed dozens fo _____________ to be built in the West.
dams
Leon Czolgosz
killed president McKinley in 1901. He was an anarchist, one who believes in the absence of government.
Elkins Act of 1903
law that prohibited railroad rebates and punished those who accepted them
Good Trusts___________
looked out for the public
pharmaceuticals
medicines, drugs
adulteration
mixing in impure ingrediants
Literature which focused on ________________ became very popular in the cities ex. The Call of the Wild by Jack London.
nature
Conservationist
person concerned with using natural areas and wildlife in ways that sustain them for current and future generations of humans and other forms of life.
Arbitration
settling a dispute by agreeing to accept the decision of an impartial outsider
1902 Newlands Act
sold federal lands in the West to fund irrigation projects.
Because of T. Roosevelts, conservationism and not have a Christmas tree in the White House caused many Americans to focus on ___________________.
the nation's natural resources
Irrigation
the process of supplying water to land to grow crops
