Teddy Roosevelt’s Square Deal

Chapter 9, Section 3

Teddy Roosevelt

Roosevelt Becomes President

42 years old = youngest president ever

Progressive reforms = Square Deal

Expanded role of president

Using Federal Power

“Trust-buster” Against big business

Gov’t. intervention in strikes Elkins Act, 1903

Rebates are illegal Hepburn Act, 1906

Eliminate railroad passes

Health

Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle Meat Inspection Act, 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act, 1906

Stopped sales of contaminated food Labels must have true information

The Jungle

Mad Cow Disease

Conservation and Natural Resources

Conservation vs. preservation Saving vs. not using

Gifford Pinchot National Reclamation Act, 1902

Gifford Pinchot

John Muir

Roosevelt Dam

Roosevelt and Civil Rights Failed to support

civil rights for African Americans

Supported individual African Americans

NAACP, 1909 National

Association for the Advancement of Colored People

W.E.B. DuBois