Teddy Roosevelt

    Cards (13)

    • square deal - conservation, control corporations and consumer proctection
    • over 80% of businesses owned by trusts
    • wanted to enforce the 1890 sherman anti trust act
    • northern securities - first huge trust to be busted
    • 40 trusts were busted including american tobbacco and standard oil
    • 1906 hepburn act - regulation of railroad proces
    • 1906 upton sinclair writes the jungle
    • 1906 - meat inspectiona ct and the pure food and drugs act
    • 1908 national conservation conference held
    • conservationism - set up 5 national parks, removed 148 million acres of land from sale, set up 50+ wildlife sanctuaries, hired gifford pinchot to organise forests and notional parks
    • 1903 department of commerce and labour act - created a new department of commerce with a cabinet secretary, regulated businesses that showed sings of of price fixing or monopolising industry
    • 1902 anthracite coal strikes - striking for better wages and an 8 hour work day - roosevelt threatened to send troops, the employers settled to a rise in wages and a 9 hour work day
    • the republican party was divided between the progressives and the conservatives
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