•At 42, the youngest President ever.

•A man of privilege – supports the common man.

•The first “modern president.”

“In life, as in football, the principle to

follow is: Hit the line hard”

TEDDY ROOSEVELT

“The Steward of the people”

                                                                              

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“The pen (again) is mightier than the sword”

                 

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Quote from the book about the unsanitary conditions in the slaughterhouses

Click on View Program and scroll to Clip #29

29:08 to 29:56

From Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle“There would be meat that had

tumbled out on the floor, in the dirt and sawdust, where the workers had trampled and spit uncounted billions

of germs. There would be meat stored in rooms and thousands of rats would

race about it..A man could run his hand over these piles of meat and sweep handfuls of dried rat dung.

These rats were nuisances, and packers would put poisoned bread out for them; they would die, and then the

rats, bread, and meat would go into the hoppers together…

In 1906 Sinclair’s novel The Jungle drew outrage against the Chicago meatpacking industry for its arrogant

disregard of basic health standards. This led to government regulation of food and drugs.

International outrage over The Jungle

• What impact did the Jungle have on the American people?

• The power “of one paragraph”- Explain.

Scroll to clip #55(2:13:03 to 2:15:21)

                           

Compare and contrast the early 20th and 21st centuries in terms

of life for immigrants within the U.S. and within the meatpacking industry.Consider:

ethnic groups wages hours turnover

Compare and contrast the early 20th and 21st centuries in terms

of the working environment of the meatpacking industry.

Inside the meatpacking industry today

Click on image

Teddy Roosevelt’s Reaction to The Jungle

Teddy Roosevelt’s Reaction to The Jungle

What impact did The Jungle have on TR and what action did he take to address the issue?

President Theodore Roosevelt was sickened after reading an advance copy. He called upon Congress to pass a law establishing the Food and Drug Administration and, for the first time, setting up federal inspection standards for meat.

Meat Inspection Act, 1906

Pure Food and Drug Act, 1906

Review Historical Themes: “The pen is mightier than the sword”

Click View Program Scroll to Clip #60

(2:30:13 to 2:30:47)

Expanding Presidential Powers

Click View Program Scroll to Clip #62

(3:16:42 to 3:18:27)

 

 How did TR shape the office of the Presidency? How were TR’s environmental policies compare with other actions as president?

First President to take actions toward conservation of the environment

(Newlands Reclamation Act of 1902)

Fighting the lasting effects of Plessy vs. Ferguson (1896) and Jim Crow laws

Founded Alabama’s Tuskegee Institute (1881) to train African Americans in

30 trades. Washington argued that equality would

be achieved not through campaigns of reforms, but when African Americans

gained education and vocational skills to become

valuable members of society.

Booker Booker TT. Washington. Washington

TR and Race RelationsClick the image below

and scroll to down Teddy RooseveltSept 3 program

 

 

What qualities did TR admire about Booker T. Washington?

What impact did Booker T. Washington’s visit to the White House have on race relations?

View2:43:08 to 2:44:37

                           

Evaluate TR’s success or failure on

each Progressive agenda item listed on

this note sheet

CONSERVATION

CONSUMER PROTECTION

RACE RELATIONS