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Teddy Roosevelt and the Square Deal.notebook October 22, 2015 TEDDY ROOSEVELT & THE SQUARE DEAL Define Square Deal: Roosevelt's 1904 campaign slogan • pledge to balance interests of labor, business and consumers • limit power of trusts; promote health and safety; improve working conditions PA coal strike > coal shortages & rising coal prices arbitration talk about settlements Roosevelt threatened to use federal troops to take over the mines good trusts: • efficient and provided consumers with needed products/services at reasonable prices BUSINESS bad trusts: • restricted trade unfairly • high prices > "trustbusters" • used Sherman Antitrust Act to break up trusts • 44 lawsuits Characteristics of a square: 4 equal sides 4 equal angles CONSERVATION VS LABOR • protection of nature and its resources • wildlife refuges • National Park Service oversaw 150 million acres of land 16 national monuments 51 wildlife refuges GENERAL PUBLIC Pure Food & Drug Act banned manufacture, sale and transportation of mislabeled or contaminated food/drugs Meat Inspection Act inspect meat packing plants 1
