Theodore Roosevelt: The Beginnings of Progressive Presidencies

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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


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