1. The Square Deal 3 C’s 1)Conservation of natural resources
2)Control of corporations
3)Consumer protection
McKinley is assassinated
Roosevelt was now President of the US
Would call his reforms the “Square Deal
it aimed at helping middle class citizens and involved attacking plutocracy and bad trusts while at the same time protecting business from the most extreme demands of organized labor. A progressive Republican, Roosevelt believed in government action to mitigate social evils, and as president he in 1908 denounced "the representatives of predatory wealth” as guilty of “all forms of iniquity from the oppression of wage workers to unfair and unwholesome methods of crushing competition, and to defrauding the public by stock-jobbing and the manipulation of securities

2. Roosevelt Gets Involved
Penn. Coal miners went on strike in May 1902
The strike threatened to shut down the winter fuel supply to major US cities
Forced owners to give workers a raise and a 9 hour work day
1st time the government intervened to help workers
When the strike continued, TR threatened to send federal workers in to make sure work continued

3. Regulating the Railroads
Hepburn Act – Gave the govt the power to set and limit shipping costs
Elkins Act – Fined railroads that gave special rates to special customers
The Hepburn Act of 1906 authorized the ICC to set maximum railroad rates, and extended the agency's authority to cover bridges, terminals, ferries, sleeping cars, express companies and oil pipelines
RR’s were very unfair as they charge whatever they wanted

4. Busting Trusts (Monopolies)
Roosevelt was known as a “trust-buster”
Break monopolies up into smaller businesses to protect consumers and other businesses
“Good” trusts and “bad” trusts
“Bad” trusts were ones that bullied smaller businesses or cheated consumers
“Good” trusts were allowed as long as they were “fair”

5. Regulating Food Meat Inspection Act Pure Food and Drug Act:
Inspections of meat-processing industries
Pure Food and Drug Act:
Safety of medicines and food
Banned mislabeling or misleading advertisements

6. Managing the Environment
Yellowstone National Park in 1872
Yosemite National Park in 1890
 five National Parks, and signed the 1906 Antiquities Act, under which he proclaimed 18 new U.S. National Monuments. He also established the first 51 bird reserves, four game preserves, and 150 National Forests,

7. Managing the Environment
Roosevelt’s conservation ideas:
Preserving land to be untouched
Some land, however, had valuable resources and should be used

8. Managing the Environment
Gifford Pinchot:
Forests would be preserved for public use
This meant that while trees age, they will eventually become good lumber
Resources should be cultivated
Pinchot is known for reforming the management and development of forests in the United States and for advocating the conservation of the nation's reserves by planned use and renewal. He called it "the art of producing from the forest whatever it can yield for the service of man." Pinchot coined the term conservation ethic as applied to natural resources. Pinchot's main contribution was his leadership in promoting scientific forestry and emphasizing the controlled, profitable use of forests and other natural resources so they would be of maximum benefit to mankind
National Reclamation Act:
Federal Govt has power to distribute water
Dams, reservoirs, etc. built by the government
This meant that water in one state could be redirected to another state