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Theodore Roosevelt’s Progressive Presidency Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt 1901-1909 Vocab. • Contaminated: dirty with bacteria or germs • Conserve: to save Teddy Roosevelt (TR) • Square Deal: Roosevelt’s program of progressive reforms – Goal = protect common people • Business Reform • Health and Environmental Reform TR’s Square Deal: Business Reform • Trustbusting: Trusts (monopolies) no longer legal! -Trusts result in less competition & higher prices ● Strikes: when a strike threatened the public welfare, the Federal Gov’t will intervene (help stop it) ● Railroad Regulation: RR’s must tell the public of rate (price) changes Square Deal: Health & Environment Reform • 1906 Meat Inspection Act: made strict cleanliness requirements for meatpacking industry – Result of Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle ● 1906 Pure Food & Drug Act: Stopped the sale of contaminated foods & medicines - Called for “truth in labeling” ● Conservation: some wilderness areas are preserved (saved), others are developed for the common good