1. Reformers in the White House: Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson

2. Roosevelt “Square Deal” – fair treatment to all 1902 PA Coal Miner’s
Strike
Took side of workers!

5. Department of Commerce and Labor
Monitor businesses engaged in interstate commerce
Elkin’s Act
Fine railroads that give special rates

6. Hepburn Act “Trust-buster”
Set max rates on shipping, ferries, toll bridges, oil pipelines
“Trust-buster”
“good” vs. “bad” trusts
Northern Securities
Company

7. Pure Food and Drug Act
FDA
Meat Inspection Act

8. “If the contents of the package…
“If the contents of the package…..fail to bear a statement on the label of the quantity or proportion of any alcohol, morphine, opium, cocaine, heroin, cannabis…..”
“If it consists in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed, or putrid animal or vegetable substance, or any portion of an animal unfit for food, whether manufactured or not, or if it is the product of a diseased animal, or one that has died otherwise than by slaughter”

12. Conservation 100 million acres 5 national parks 18 national monuments
Grand Canyon
Petrified Forest

13. Gifford Pinchot – Division of Forestry National Reclamation Act
Reservoirs
Dams
Water flow patterns

17. Taft Payne-Aldrich Tariff Busted 90 trusts (2x as many as TR)
Not low enough for TR
Busted 90 trusts (2x as many as TR)
No distinction – “good” vs. “bad”
Set aside over 100 million acres
Fired Gifford Pinchot

19. Taft vs Roosevelt vs Wilson
Election of 1912
Taft vs Roosevelt vs Wilson
(Rep.) (Bull Moose/Rep (Dem.)
Progressive)

20. Wilson New Freedom (trust-busting) Underwood Tariff Bill
Lower than Payne-Aldrich
16th Amendment
Graduated income tax
Clayton Anti-trust Act
Protected unions

21. Federal Trade Commission
Anti-monopoly
Monitor ads and labeling

22. Workingman’s Compensation Act Adamson Act
Railroad employees – 8 hours/day

23. Roosevelt’s Anti-trust Acts
COSTS
BENEFITS

24. Roosevelt Taft Wilson Foreign Policy
Relationship between Fed. Govt. and Private Business
Constitutional Amendments

25. Roosevelt’s Anti-trust Acts
COSTS
BENEFITS
Used unevenly and unfairly
Violation of 5th and 14th Amendments? (govt. cannot take private property without “just compensation”
Makes it hard for industries to do business
Could cost people jobs
Industry’s shareholders could lose $
Protect small businesses
Protect individuals from unfair business practices

26. Roosevelt Taft Wilson Foreign Policy
“Big Stick” Diplomacy, more aggressive
Panama Canal, Roosevelt Corollary
“Dollar” Diplomacy, promote US interests through trade and investment
“Moral” Diplomacy, Intervention in Mexico, WWI
Relationship between Fed. Govt. and Private Business
“Trustbuster”, distinguished between “good” and “bad” trusts, Department of Commerce and Labor, Interstate Commerce Commission, Elkin’s Act, Hepburn Act, Pure Food and Drug Act, Meat Inspection Act
Twice as many trusts “busted”, no distinction between “good” and “bad”
New Freedom, Clayton Anti-trust Act, Adamson Act, Federal Trade Commission
Constitutional Amendments
16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th Amendments (income tax, direct election of Senators, Prohibition, Woman’s Suffrage)