1. Roosevelt and Taft Progressivism
Section 8.2 (Appleby )

2. Today’s agenda Return and go over the GAT 6.1 Slide Show Homework
Read 6.1
Make up any test you missed ASAP

3. Describe TR’s background.
From wealthy NY family
Sickly child
Intelligent
Athletic
Suffered Tragedy
shaped his life
Rancher
Police Chief NYC
Assistant Secretary of Navy (1896)
B in wealth NY family
Sickly and asthmatic child
-ordered by Doc to smoke cigars
-father instead put in stool, weights, & got TR to exercise
Family vacationed in Europe
Naturalist
Home schooled
Graduated from Harvard (Magna Cum Laude)
Photographic memory
Athletic
Boxing, rowing,
Dropped out of Columbia Law school and entered public life
Lost first wife and mother on same day (1880)
Bad Lands rancher
Assistant Secretary of Navy (1896)

4. How did Roosevelt become the President?
Spanish American War gave him national fame
Governor of NY (Reformer)
VP in 1900
A Do nothing position
McKinley assassinated
TR = 26th president Tecumseh's Curse
“When Roosevelt attends a wedding, he wants to be the bride. When he attends a funeral, he wants to be the corpse.”

6. How did TR view his role as President.
“Square Deal”
Position to oversee that every citizen is treated fairly
“bully pulpit”
Position from which to preach his ideas
Loose Constructionist
Believed that if the Constitution did not specifically forbid a president from doing something, he could do it

8. Describe Northern Securities v. United States (1902).
A Trust (Holding company) controlled by JP Morgan
Holding co. bought majority of stock in another company and thereby controlled it
IE. A Monopoly
Controlled RR rates (1902) TR
Viewed trusts as “malefactors of great wealth”
Used Sherman Antitrust Act against RR monopoly & broke it up
Gave TR label of a trust buster

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10. Describe TR’s actions during the Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902
, 000 coal miners went on strike
Goal of United Mine Workers
8 hr. work day
20% pay raise
Union recognition
Company refused any negotiation
George Baer – believed in “Divine Right of Bosses”
TR threatens to nationalize the coal mines
Outcome
9 hr. work day
10% pay raise
No Union recognition

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12. How did TR attempt to regulate business?
Gov. agencies created for consumer protection
Department of Commerce and Labor (1903)
Bureau of Standards
Regulated weights & measures,
Bureau of Corporations
investigated interstate corporations
Later called Federal Trade Commission (Wilson)
Rooted out collusion, insider trading

13. How did TR attempt to protect the consumer?
Meat Inspection Act of 1906
Authorized Secretary of Agriculture to inspect all meat products for human consumption
Caused by public outcry from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906
Forbade manufacture, sale adulterated foods and drugs and the mislabeling of products

14. How did TR attempt to conserve America’s resources?
Concerned about wasteful use of resources
Gifford Pinchot
Chief Forester proposed planned management (conservationist) of resources
John Muir
Sierra Club
proposed preservation
TR used both views
Doubled the amount of federally protected land

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