Monday - We did the 9-3 presentation today.
Chapter 9-3
- Teddy Roosevelt
- Wealthy family
- Born in New York, 1858
- Suffered from asthma
- Marksman, horseback riding, boxing, and wrestling
- Went to Harvard
- U.S. Civil Service Commissioner
- Police commissioner
- Assistant Secretary of U.S. Navy
- Fought in the Spanish American War, leader of Rough Riders
- Governor of New York
- Historian
- Cowboy
- Won Noble Peace Prize, ended war between Russia and Japan
- Was Vice President to President McKinley
- Was youngest president at 42 in 1901
- Square Deal
- Big businesses victimized workers
- Used to describe various progressive reforms
- 3 C's
- Conservation of Natural Resources
- Control of Corporations
- Consumer Protection
- 1902 Coal Strike
- 140,000 coal miners on strike
- Demands
- Wanted 20% raises
- 9 hr workdays
- Union
- Roosevelt called them to White House
- Miners and Coal Owner compromised
- Strikes had to intervened with government
- Railroad Regulation
- Interstate Commerce Act 1887
- Interstate Commerce Commision - enforced rules
- Elkins Act 1903
- Illegal railroad officials to give shippers rebates
- Couldn't change set rates
- Hepburn Act 1906
- limited distribution of free railroad passes
- Gave ICC power to set max rates
- Boosted government power to regulate railroads
- Pure Food and Drug Act
- Manufactured Claimed Curing
- Children's Medicine
- Opium
- Cocaine
- Alcohol
- Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley
- Criticized companies
- Harmful Products
- 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act
- Stronger sales
- Canceled Ban
- Excessive Labels
- Conservation and Natural Resources
- Didn't pay attention to resources
- Cut down 45 million acres of trees
- Private Investigators helped people get away with it
- Pioneer farmers vs. Forests
- Coal Companies Cluttered Land
- Lumber Companies ignored Affects, no replanting
- Cities Dumped Waste
- Conversation Measures
- Primary Concern of Roosevelt (biggest accomplishment)
- John Muir persuaded Roosevelt, protected 148 million acres of forest
- 1.5 million acres of water power sites
- National Reclamation Act
- irrigation systems
- Civil Rights
- Appointed African American
- NAACP (National Association of the Advancement of Colored People)
- Dismissed Regiment of African American Soldiers
- Conspiracy in Protecting Others
- 6,000 members aimed for rights
- Presidents + not caring = Racial Inequality
Tuesday - We played, Name That Tune, because we only had seven people in class.
Wednesday - I was gone because we had an early out and Veteran's Program.
Thursday - No school, volleyball girls won on Tuesday.
Friday -No school, volleyball girls won yesterday.
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