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Square deal
He vowed not to favor any group of
Americans but to be fair to all
Square is fair
Three demands (3 C’s):
◦ Control of corporations
◦ Consumer protection
◦ Conservation of natural resources
Control of Corporations
Was not pro-business
Distinguish good businesses from bad
◦ Products vs money
Defended the right of labor to organize
The Roosevelt administration filed
forty-three trust-busting suits
Known as the “Trust Buster”
Hepburn Act
Interstate Commerce Commission
(ICC)
◦ Was created to ensure railroads were
regulated
◦ weak agency, didn’t have much authority
Empowered the ICC
Set maximum railroad rates and
allowed inspection on railroad
companies’ financial records
Consumer Protection
The Jungle
Pure Food and Drug Act
Meat Inspection Act
Federal inspection of meat products and prohibited the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated food products.
Conservation of natural
resources As president, Roosevelt provided federal
protection for almost 230 million acres of land◦ an area equivalent to the entire Eastern
Seaboard from Maine to Florida.
He sat aside 150 national forests, the first 51 federal bird reservations, five national parks, the first 18 national monuments, the first four national game preserves and the first 24 reclamation, or federal irrigation, and projects.
Roosevelt also appointed as the first Chief of the U.S. Forest Service the visionary Gifford Pinchot
He convened four study commissions on conservation for policymakers and leading authorities to shape thought about the then-new field of conservation.
Foreign Policy
Roosevelt
Corollary
◦ What was this?
◦ Where did we
see this?
Russo-
Japanese War
Nobel Peace
Price
Governor of the Philippines under
McKinley
Was handpicked by TR to be the next
president
Initiated at many as 80 trust-busting
suits
◦ Almost twice as many as TR
16th Amendment
The 16th Amendment allows
Congress to tax income without
basing it on population.
◦ It is based on how much you make
The amendment is the constitutional
law empowering the government
enforce income taxes on Americans.
17th Amendment
Direct election of
senators
Instead of state
legislatures providing
jobs and voting for
their friends, the
people could elect
someone who they
felt would do the
best job
Trust-Buster Started off strong
Twice as many trust-busting suits as TR◦ Standard Oil Company
◦ The American Tobacco Company
U.S. Steel◦ TR accused him of being unable to tell the
difference between “good” trusts and “bad” trusts
Found himself surrounded by conservative business men, and soon backed off his trust-busting efforts
End of the friendship
Taft fired Pinchot,
head of the
Department of
Forestry, and
Roosevelt’s
personal friend
Split the
Republican party
in two
Election of 1912
TR returned and announced he was
running for President
Roosevelt lost Republican seat
Knowing what we know about TR,
how do you think he handled the loss?
Clayton Anti-trust Act
An amendment passed by the U.S. Congress in 1914 that provides further clarification and substance to the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890.
Prevented companies from making exclusive contracts, rebates, inter corporate stock holdings, and price cutting.
This act was very influential because it did not inhibit unions from forming or carrying out their plans for reform.
Keating-Owen Act Sought to address child
labor by prohibiting the sale in interstate commerce of goods produced by factories that employed children under fourteen
mines that employed children younger than sixteen
Any facility where children under sixteen worked at night or more than eight hours daily.◦ 60 hours a week
Sadly,
The Keating-Owen Act was
considered unconstitutional
Hammer v. Dagenhart
State vs. Federal powers (10th
Amendment)
◦ Can Congress regulate commerce?
Decision reversed in 1941
Adamson Act
Established an eight-hour workday,
with additional pay for overtime work,
for interstate railroad workers.
Foreign Policy
Moral Diplomacy
◦ the system in which support is given only
to countries whose moral beliefs are
similar to that of the nation supplying help.
Help democratic countries
◦ Possible allies
Injure non-democratic countries
◦ Possible enemies
Latin America He also hoped to increase the number of
democratic nations, particularly in Latin America
Anti-Imperialist
Monroe Doctrine
Panama Canal Act
Apologized for Roosevelt’s actions during Panamanian Revolution
Nicaragua ◦ Haiti
◦ Dominican Republic
Mexican Revolution
Victoriano Huerta
Wilson refused to recognize violent
dictators who overthrew a government
in pursuit of their own agenda
Gave Huerta’s enemies weapons
Constitutionalist Venustiano Carranza
Pancho Villa
Columbus, New Mexico