Theodore Roosevelt: The Beginnings of Progressive Presidencies

26th president, known for: conservationism, trust-busting, Hepburn Act, safe food regulations, "Square Deal," Panama Canal, Great White Fleet, Nobel Peace Prize for negotiation of peace in Russo-Japanese War

25th president responsible for Spanish-American War, Philippine-American War, and the Annexation of Hawaii, imperialism. Is assassinated by an anarchist Theodore Roosevelt was his VP.

person concerned with using natural areas and wildlife in ways that sustain them for current and future generations of humans and other forms of life.

After his wife and mother died on the same day, he went to seek peace in nature in the Badlands of the Dakotas.

killed president McKinley in 1901. He was an anarchist, one who believes in the absence of government.

Economic policy by T. Roosevelt that favored fair relationships between companies and workers

Control of Corporations, Consumer protection, Conservation of Natural Resources

Strike by the United Coal Workers of America, threatening to shut down the winter coal supply. Theodore Roosevelt intervened federally, and resolved the disput through arbitration.

settling a dispute by agreeing to accept the decision of an impartial outsider

Established in 1903- it was to help Theodore Roosevelt in eliminating most corporate abuses through its investigatory arm, the Bureau of Corporations. The Bureau of Corporations helped break the stronghold of monopolies.

law that prohibited railroad rebates and punished those who accepted them

Strenghtened the Interstate Commerce Act by allowing the ICC to truly nullify existing rates of the railroads

(law) government activities seeking to dissolve corporate trusts and monopolies (especially under the United States antitrust laws)

looked out for the public

were greedy for power

controlled

broken up

A railroad monopoly formed by J.P. Morgan and James J. Hill which violated Sherman Antitrust Act

First federal action against monopolies, it was signed into law by Harrison and was extensively used by Theodore Roosevelt for trust-busting.

To prove the government, not business, ruled the country

sold federal lands in the West to fund irrigation projects.

the process of supplying water to land to grow crops

dams

the nation's natural resources

nature

These two acts were written after "The Jungle"

This 1906 work by Upton Sinclair pointed out the abuses of the meat packing industry. The book led to the passage of the 1906 Meat Inspection Act.

medicines, drugs

mixing in impure ingrediants