1. American History Chapter 16-3
Theodore Roosevelt’s Square Deal

2. Theodore Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt became president in 1901.
Bully pulpit: T.R. used the presidency as a platform for change.

3. Roosevelt’s Presidency
Roosevelt broke up a major coal strike by threatening to take control of the mines.
1904 campaign slogan: The Square Deal.
Promised all Americans fair treatment.
Used the Sherman Antitrust Act to bust up bad trusts.
Elkins Act: Protected RR customers from unfair rates.
Hepburn Act: Gave the ICC the power to regulate interstate trade.

4. Consumer Protection Under T.R.
Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle: Exposed the meat packing industry & their unsanitary practices.
Congress passed the Meat Inspection Act: Required federal inspection of meat passing over state lines.
Pure Food & Drug Act: Forbade the making & sale of food & medicines that contained harmful ingredients.
Also required ingredient labels.
Sinclair

5. Environmental Protection
John Muir: Naturalist who encouraged the gov’t. to preserve nature.
“God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.” John Muir
Gifford Pinchot: First to use the word conservation in terms of protecting natural environment.

6. Roosevelt’s Greatest Legacy
President Roosevelt believed that natural resources were limited & and their use needed to be controlled.
Newlands Reclamation Act: Provided federal irrigation projects to make arid land more useful.
U.S. Forest Service: Est – Added 150 million acres of controlled & regulated national forests.
Antiquities Act: 1906 law that led to 18 new national monuments during Roosevelt’s presidency.

7. Gila National Forest 1907

8. Devil’s Tower 1908

9. Grand Canyon 1908

10. Muir Woods 1908