Answer the following questions in complete sentences on a separate sheet of paper

1. How did Roosevelt view the job or role of the federal government? Give 3 details

2. What was his idea of the “Square Deal”?

3. What is a trust? What type of unfair business practices would they use?

4. How did Roosevelt address the issue of trusts?

5. After coal reserves began to run low during the 1902 coal strike, how did Roosevelt intervene?

6. What did the coal miners win? What did they have to give up?

7. What regulations for the railroad industry were put into place?

8. Before federal regulations were established, what kinds of issues were there in the food and drug industry?

9. Name and describe the law that addressed this issue.

10. How were American’s exploiting the environment during this time? Name four ways.

11. How did John Muir contribute to conservation measures? How did Gifford Pinchot contribute?

12. What did the National Reclamation Act of 1902 (aka The Newlands Act) do?