2. Title your notes. Theodore Roosevelt: Greater Government

3. TR: Greater Gov’t Early life Born to wealthy NY family; sickly child Got stronger, went to Harvard where he boxed Was rancher in N. Dakota NY State legislator; NYC Police Commish; Ass’t Sec. to the Navy

4. TR: Greater Gov’t TR gains national fame As #2 at Navy,TR wanted a US war v. Spain. Recruits ranchers & Ivy Leaguers for “Rough Riders” TR captures San Juan Hill; TR now famous!

5. TR: Greater Gov’t Road to Presidency NY Gov. (1898) as Republican; McKinley’s VP in 1900. McKinley assassinated; TR = POTUS @ age 42. TR: US needs a strong Pres. & Fed’l Gov’t TR used office to shape public opinion & obtain legislation

6. TR: Greater Gov’t TR’s “Square Deal” TR’s domestic agenda: 3 C’s Consumer Protection Conservation of Nat’l Resources Control over giant corporations Is the Square Deal successful? Let’s see.

7. Use your Chart TR uses Fed’l Power for 3 huge wins over BIG Business Orders Dep’t of Justice to sue Northern Securities. SCOTUS gives TR huge win – (over Morgan & Rockefeller!) 1902 Coal Strike. TR forces mine owners to negotiate with United Mine Workers of America. More $, fewer hrs! – 1 st Fed intervention in labor relations!

8. Chart: Control over Big Business Huge win #3 Elkins Act-(1903) ends practice of RRs giving discounts to BIGGEST shippers. (Why is this good?) TR strengthens Interstate Commerce Commmission – Hepburn Act (1906) ICC has control over RRs! Fed’l Gov’t now REGULATES US RRs!

9. TR: Consumer Protection TR Turns to Consumer Protection TR wins 1904 election; 2d term. TR read Sinclairs’s The Jungle. Passed laws for the Am. Ppl. Meat Inspection Act- 1906 (Fed’l Inspectors) Pure Food & Drug Act-1906 (truth in labeling)

10. TR: Conservation TR: FIRST Conservationist President (the most important camping trip ever; John Muir) Est’d Yosemite Nat’l Park (148M acres) 1.5M acres for water- power 80M acres for minerals 50 wildlife sanctuaries & nat’l parks Nat’l Reclamation Act- 1902 (Fed’l Gov’t manage scarce H2O in western US) Named Gifford Pinchot head of US Forest Service in 1905

11. Thank you, TR

12. Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how you get yourself carved into Mt. Rushmore.