TEDDY ROOSEVELT

THE 26TH PRESIDENT

ROOSEVELT REVIVES THE PRESIDENCY• BECAME PRESIDENT AT AGE 42

• WHAT IS THE YOUNGEST AGE TO BECOME PRESIDENT?

• INTERNATIONAL IDEAS

• SOCIAL DARWINISM

• SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST

• DOMESTIC IDEAS

• PROGRESSIVISM

• FINDING A BALANCE AMONGST GROUPS OF PEOPLE

• SQUARE DEAL

• NO MORE, NO LESS

ROOSEVELT TAKES ON THE TRUSTS• TAKES ON J.P MORGAN

• RAILROAD HOLDING COMPANY

• WANTS TO BREAK UP THE SALE OF THE RAILROAD TO ONE COMPANY

• TOOK THE CASE TO THE SUPREME COURT

• NORTHERN SECURITIES V. UNITED STATES

• THE COMPANY WAS FOUND GUILTY OF BREAKING THE SHERMAN ANTI-TRUST ACT

• ROOSEVELT BECAME KNOWN AS A TRUST BUSTER

THE COAL STRIKE OF 1902• UNITED MINE WORKERS (UMW)

• 150,000 WORKERS WALKED OUT

• WANTED

• BETTER PAY

• REDUCED WORK HOURS

• UNION RECOGNITION

• DROVE UP THE PRICE OF COAL

• CREATED ARBITRATION

• SETTLEMENT NEGOTIATED BY AN OUTSIDE PARTY

REGULATING BIG BUSINESS

• CREATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND LABOR

• BIG CORPORATIONS NEGOTIATED A DEAL THE MADE CHANGES TO THEIR BUSINESS PLANS PRIVATELY TO NOT HAVE TO PAY FINES

• HELPED THE ECONOMY WITHOUT BREAKING UP TRUSTS

CONSERVATION

• ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATIONISM

• TRYING TO FIND A BALANCE BETWEEN USING MATERIALS AND PUTTING RESOURCES BACK TO THE LAND

• MATERIALS WERE BEING USED VERY QUICKLY

• CREATE THE FOREST SERVICE

BIG BUSINESS

HEPBURN ACT

• CREATED THE INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION (ICC)

• HELPED REGULATED RAILROAD RATES

• CREATED STANDARD RATES

CONSUMER PROTECTION

• TOOK POTIONS WHEN SICK

• POTIONS CONTAINED DANGEROUS SUBSTANCES

• WATER, ALCOHOL, SUGAR

• CAFFEINE, OPIUM, COCAINE, AND OTHER COMPOUNDS

• UPTON SINCLAIR- “THE JUNGLE”

• MEAT INSPECTION ACT

• PURE FOOD AND DRUG ACT

• FOOD HAS LABEL

THE JUNGLE• FOR YEARS, MANY AMERICANS BOUGHT MEAT FROM BUTCHER SHOPS AND GROCERY

STORES, NEVER THINKING ABOUT THE TYPE OF CONDITIONS UNDER WHICH LIVESTOCK HAD BEEN BUTCHERED AND THE MEAT HAD BEEN PROCESSED. THEN IN 1906, AUTHOR UPTON SINCLAIR WROTE THE JUNGLE, AN EXPOSÉ OF THE CHICAGO MEAT-PACKING INDUSTRY.

• MILLIONS OF PEOPLE WHO READ THE BOOK WERE SHOCKED BY THE UNSANITARY PRACTICES SINCLAIR DESCRIBED. HIS WORK LED TO SWEEPING REFORMS IN THE MEAT-PACKING INDUSTRY, ALONG WITH FEDERAL REGULATIONS REGARDING SANITARY PRACTICES IN THE INDUSTRY. AS SINCLAIR SAID, “I AIMED FOR THE PUBLIC’S HEART, AND HIT IT IN THE STOMACH INSTEAD.”

• FROM HILLSBORO SCHOOLS