17.3 TEDDY ROOSEVELT’S SQUARE DEAL OBJECTIVE: Understand the reforms of Roosevelt’s Administration

THEODORE ROOSEVELT Governor of NY. Reformer. Hero of Spanish American

War.

Nominated to be Vice-President by Republican party bosses. WHY??

1901 Pres. McKinley assassinated, TR becomes President.

Creates the “modern presidency” b/c of his popularity with the public and use of media/press.

Uses White House as a “bully pulpit”

HOW DID ROOSEVELT REDEFINE FEDERAL POWER? 1. “Square Deal”

Roosevelt’s package of reforms

Expands the use of federal power to reform US

Why was it called the Square Deal?

2. Arbitrates the 1902 Coal Strike

Threatened to assume control of mines

HISTORICALSIGNIFICANCE:

Govt. did not automatically back big business

3. Trust Busting

Mixed record of success

Mixed message - considers some trusts good and other bad.

Focused on filing suits under Sherman Antitrust Act of 1902

Filed 44 antitrust lawsuits

4. Railroad regulation

Elkins Act of 1903 - illegal for railroads to give or receive rebates

Hepburn Act of 1906 - strictly limited the distribution of free railroad passes

These gave the Interstate Commerce Commission more power to curb the railroads power through federal regulation.

ROOSEVELT AND REFORM

PROTECTING HEALTH1906: Meat Inspection Act:Dictated strict cleanliness for meat factories(reaction to Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle)

What did The Jungle say?1906: Pure Food and Drug Act

PROTECTING HEALTH 1906: Meat Inspection

Act: Dictated strict cleanliness

for meat factories (reaction to Upton

Sinclair’s The Jungle)

What did The Jungle say?

1906: Pure Food and Drug Act Halted the sale of

contaminated food and medicines and called for truth in labeling

ROOSEVELT AND REFORM

CONSERVATION Created US Forest

Service

Creates over 50 national parks & wilderness areas

CIVIL RIGHTSAmbiguous record dealing

with Civil Rights

Hosted Booker T. Washington at White House,

Yet, did not embrace reforms of NAACP What was the goal of the

NAACP?

TERMS

Theodore Roosevelt Square Deal The Jungle Upton Sinclair Meat Inspection Act Pure Food and Drug

Act Conservation NAACP

OBJECTIVE: Understand the reforms of Roosevelt’s Administration