1. President Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt Managing the Environment
EQ – What were the goals of Roosevelt’s “Square Deal?”
Roosevelt’s Square Deal
What was it and what were its goals?
Railroads
Elkins Act, 1903
Hepburn Act, 1906
Food & Drug
Meat Inspection Act
Pure Food & Drug Act
“Trustbusters”
What is the difference between a “good trust” and a “bad trust?”
What trusts did Roosevelt dissolve?
Managing the Environment
Forests
Water
_____ million acres of forest
set aside… do we use it
or leave it untouched?
National Reclamation Act
John Muir
Gifford Pinchot