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Of the following legislation aimed at resource conservation, the only one associated with Theodore Roosevelt's presidency was the
Newlands Act.
Passage of the Federal Meat Inspection Act was facilitated
by the publication of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle.
As a part of his reform program, Teddy Roosevelt advocated all of the following;
control of corporations, consumer protection, conservation of natural resources, and an end to railroad rebates.
President Taft's foreign policy was dubbed
dollar diplomacy.
During his presidency, Theodore Roosevelt did all of the following; .
expand presidential power, shape the progressive movement, provide an international perspective, and tame capitalism.
When Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle, he intended his book to
focus attention on the plight of workers in the stockyards and meat-packing industry.
The Supreme Court's 'rule of reason' in restraint-of-trade cases was
handed down in a case involving Standard Oil.
Theodore Roosevelt believed that trusts were
here to stay with their efficient means of production.
The idea of 'multiple-use resource management' included all of the following practices;
recreation, sustained-yield logging, summer stock grazing, and watershed protection.
One unusual and significant characteristic of the anthracite coal strike in 1902 was
that the national government did not automatically side with the owners in the dispute.
Theodore Roosevelt helped to end the 1902 strike in the anthracite coal mines by
threatening to seize the mines and to operate them with federal troops.
While president, Theodore Roosevelt chose
to label his reform proposals as the Square Deal.
The real purpose of Theodore Roosevelt's assault on trusts was
to prove that the government, not private business, ruled the country.
According to the text, Theodore Roosevelt's most enduring, tangible achievement may have been
his efforts supporting the environment.
Theodore Roosevelt is probably most accurately described as a
middle-of-the-road politician.
The panic of 1907 stimulated
reform in banking policy.
As president, William Howard Taft was wedded more to
the status quo than to change.
The Elkins and Hepburn acts dealt with
the subject of railroad regulations.
President Roosevelt believed that the federal government should
adopt a policy of regulating trusts.
Theodore Roosevelt decided to run for the presidency in 1912 because
William H. Taft had seemed to discard Roosevelt's policies
Theodore Roosevelt weakened himself politically after his
election in 1904 when he announced that he would not be a candidate for a third term as president.
