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