Week of November 9th-13th

Monday: The forum post leaders gave their spiel on the topics that they posted about. Took notes on Chapter 9-3

Tuesday: Wasn't In class

Wednesday: Wasn't In class

Thursday: No school

Friday: No school

Notes:

Chapter 9-3

Teddy Roosevelt
- Born in New York in 1858
  - Very wealthy family
- Suffered from asthma
- Marksmanship/Horseback riding/boxing/wrestling
- Police commissioner and assistant secretary of U.S. Navy
- Went to Harvard
  - Boxed and wrestled there
- Commissioner of the New Your City Police from 1895-1897
- Owned and ran a ranch in the Dakota Territory
- Wrote many books
- Wasn't supposed to be president
  - Was Vice President then McKinley died
- Became youngest president at age 42 in 1901
  - Served from 1901-105
- Used the "bully pulpit" to influence media and help pass laws
- TR was the "trustbuster"
  - "good trusts" vs. "bad trusts"
- Square Deal
  - Big businesses victimized workers
  - Used to describe the various progressive reforms sponsored by the Roosevelt administration
  - 3 C's- Conservation of natural resources, control of corporations, and consumers protections
- 1902 Coal Strike
  - 140,000 coal miners went on strike
  - Wanted 20% raises, 9 hour workdays, 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 went and conversed with the government then the problem would be resolved
- Railroad Regulation'
  - Interstate Commerce Act- 1887
  - Interstate Commerce Commission-enfolittle power
  - Elkins Act- 1903
  - Illegal for railroads officials to give and shippers to receive rebates
  - Couldn't change set rates
  - Hepburn Act 1906
  - Limited distribution of free railroad passes (bribery)
  - Gave ICC poorer to set max rates
  - Boosted government power to regulate railroads
- Pure Food and Drug Act
  - Manufacturers Claim Curing
  - Children's Medicine: Opium, Cocaine, Alcohol
  - Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley, Criticized, Harmful Products
  - 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act
  - Stronger Sales, Canceled Ban, Excessive Labels
- Meat Inspection Act-1906
- Conservation and Natural Resources
  - Government did not pay attention, cut down trees (45 million acres)
  - Government Stood by the private investigators
  - 19th Century, Americans Exploited Natural Environment
  - Pioneer Farmers vs. Forest
  - Coal Companies Cluttered Land
  - Lumber Companies Ignore Affects, No replanting
  - Cities Dumped waste
- Conservation Measures
  - Teddy Roosevelt Condemned views of America, Primary Concern
  - John Muir persuaded Roosevelt, 148 millions acres of forest under protection
  - Roosevelt made 1.5 million acres of water-power sites
  - Nation Reclamation Act (a.k.a. Newlands Act) built the Roosevelt Dam
- Civil Rights of Roosevelt
  - Appointed African American to run Charleston, South Carolina (didn't do much to help African Americans)
  - 1906, Roosevelt Angered African Americans
  - NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
    - Conspiracy in protecting others
    - 6 thousand members aimed for rights
    - Presidents + Not Caring = Racial Inequality

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Week of November 9th-13th

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