Section 3 Teddy Roosevelt’s Square Deal Chapter 9 Section 3 Teddy Roosevelt’s Square Deal 1. labor and management 2. consumer and business 3. developer and conservationist 

Problem #1 1902 Coal Strike 140, 000 coal miners demand 20% raise, 9 hour workday, right to organize Arbitration commission Federal government can intervene and experts can help solve disputes

Problem # 2 Trusts Trusts- legal bodies created to hold stock in many companies 1890 Sherman anti-trust Act

Problem #3 Railroad Regulation Interstate Commerce Act- no price fixing Elkins Act- no rebates allowed Hepburn Act- limit free railroad passes

Problem # 4 Food/Medicine The Jungle by Upton Sinclair Meat Inspection Act Pure Food and Drug Act

Problem #5 Wilderness/ Natural Resources National Reclamation Act- large irrigation projects Set aside millions of acres of forest Wildlife sanctuaries National parks

Problem #6 Racial Discrimination Failed to support civil rights for African-Americans Invited Booker T. Washington to White House DuBois founds NAACP to promote equality Progressive Movement appeals to needs to the white middle class