Monday- Forum posts
Ch. 9.3
-Describe the major accomplishments of Teddy Roosevelt as President.
- Born in New York in 1858
- Born into a wealthy family-1858
- Suffered from asthma- sickly kid
- Went to Harvard
- Good athlete- wrestled and boxed at Harvard
- Police commissioner
- Assistant secretary of US Navy
- Became youngest president at 42 in 1901
- Police officer of NYC for 2 years
- Leader of "Rough Riders"
- Governor of New York-1898-1900
- Owned and ran a ranch in Dakota Territory
-Square Deal
- Big businesses victimized workers
- Used to describe the carious progressive reforms sponsored by the Roosevelt administration
- 3 C's- Conservation of natural resources, Control of corporations, and Consumer protection
-Breaking up strikes
- 1902 Coal strike
- 140,000 coal miners went on strike
- Wanted 20% raises, 9 hour work days, and a union
- Mine operators refused to bargain
- Roosevelt called them to the White House
- Miners got what they wanted
- Gave up their right to strike for 3 years
- Strikes had to be intervened with government- every time there was a strike, they had to converse with the government
-Regulating railroads
- Interstate Commerce Act- 1887
- Interstate Commerce Commission
- Elkins Act- 1903
- Illegal for railroad officials to give and shippers to receive 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
-Regulating food and drugs
- Manufacturers claimed curing
- Children's medicine: Opium, cocaine, alcohol
- Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley, criticized harmful products
- 1906- Pure Food and Drug Act- Teddy Roosevelt
- Stronger sales, canceled bans, excessive labels
- Passed the Meat Inspection Act- 1906
-Conservation
- Government didn't pay attention to forests and nature
- Cut down 45 million acres of trees
- Government stood by- Private investigators
- Pioneer farmers vs. forests
- Coal companies cluttered land
- Lumber companies ignored affects
- There was no replanting of the trees
- Cities would dump waste because there was a lot of open space
- Teddy Roosevelt condemned views of America, Primary concerns
- John Muir persuaded Roosevelt, 148 million acres of forest under protection
- Roosevelt- 1.5 million acres of Water-power sites
- National Reclamation Act- build the Roosevelt Dam
- Helped establish irrigation systems
-Policy towards African-Americans
- Appointed African American, Charleston South Carolina
- 1906- Angered African Americans
- NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
- Dismissed regiment of African American Soldiers
- Conspiracy in protecting others
- 6 thousand members aimed for rights
- Presidents + Not caring = Racial Inequality
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