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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