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Teddy RooseveltProgressive President
Rough Rider
Governor of NY and Vice President
Trust Buster
Outdoors man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFlOLyMwnjU
Teddy becomes President
1900 McKinley was elected President. In 1901 at the Pan American Expo in Buffalo NY he was shot and killed
VP Teddy Roosevelt is the youngest President in US history at the age of 42.
Square Deal
1. Consumer Progressivism
After reading The Jungle he helps to pass the Meat Inspection act and the Pure Food and Drug Act in 1906
2. Protection of the People
Roosevelt threatens to get involved if any strike threatens the whole nation!
Square Deal
3. Trust Busting 80% of the Nation’s industries were controlled by trusts.
Teddy resurrects the Sherman –Anti trust Act of 1890 and applies it to BAD trusts!!
He did believe some trusts were of value to the country’s economic power
Legacy of Presidency
Expands the power of both the State and National Government
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