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Teddy Roosevelt’s Square Deal

Teddy Roosevelt’s Square Deal. How does Theodore Roosevelt bring Progressivism to the White House?. Rough Rider become President. Republican Party convinces outspoken Gov Theodore Roosevelt to run as VP with McKinley.

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Teddy Roosevelt’s Square Deal

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  1. Teddy Roosevelt’s Square Deal How does Theodore Roosevelt bring Progressivism to the White House?

  2. Rough Rider become President • Republican Party convinces outspoken Gov Theodore Roosevelt to run as VP with McKinley • McKinley assassinated 6 mos into his second term, Roosevelt becomes president at age 42 • Begins the “Square Deal”, a plan to protect the common man from big business

  3. Square Deal: Trustbusting • Roosevelt challenges trusts that were created to hold numerous companies, allowing big business to have legal monopolies • Roosevelt files 44 lawsuits against companies that used trusts, Supreme Court rules trusts must be broken up Square Deal: Labor Reform ●Coal miners in PA strike for fair pay, mine co won’t budge • Roosevelt threatens govt takeover of mines if strike doesn’t end ● Railroad Reform: Roosevelt gives ICC more power to regulate RRs by filing lawsuits against monopolistic RRs TR the “trustbuster”

  4. Square Deal: Health & Environmental Reform • 2) Roosevelt pushes for Pure Food & Drug Act: a) inspection of other foods, which stops sale of contaminated foods • 1) After reading Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle, Roosevelt pushes for the passage of the Meat Inspection Act (federal inspections) ● b) Medicines requires labeled truthfully for FDA approval ●3) Aftercamping with conservationist John Muir, Roosevelt creates National Park Sys (protects 100s of thousand of acres)

  5. Square Deal: Civil Rights • Appoints some Af-Ams to government positions & invites Booker T. Washington to the White House to discuss civil rights • Roosevelt did not fully support new civil rights laws, however was willing to work with black leaders • However, other black leaders like W.E.B. Du Bois criticized Washington for working with Roosevelt • Du Bois argued in Souls of Black Folks that Af-Ams like Washington slowing down civil rights by working with TR ● Du Bois helps form National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) goal is full equality amongst races

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