Roosevelt's Square Deal

Using Federal Power

Trustbusting

Coal Strike

Railroad

Stock holding companies

Teddy believe they were all bad

Monopoly hurt the public

Removed competition and then raised prices

140,000 coal miners in Pennsylvanian

right to organize union

1903 the commission issued its compromise

miners wanted a 10 percent pay raise

1887 congress passed Interstate Commerce Act

Hepburn Act of 1906 limited free train passes

Members of the arbitration commission were examples of such experts.

Health and Environment

Regulating Foods and Drugs

Pure Food and Drug Act

Meat Inspection Act

Conservation and Natural Resources

Conservation Measures

"The Jungle"

Required labels on food

Passed in 1906

Ban harmful contents

changing relationship between the federal government and private businesses during this period.

1887, the government stood by while private interests gobbled up the shrinking wilderness.

shortsightedly exploited their natural environment.

cleaned up cities with dumpsters and sewage systems

1.5 million acres of water-power sites

Conservationists like Roosevelt and Pinchot, however, did not share the views of Muir, who advocated complete preservation of the wilderness

Under the National Reclamation Act of 1902

Roosevelt and Civil Rights

As president, Roosevelt—like most other Progressives—failed to support civil rights for African Americans

Roosevelt appointed an African American as head of the Charleston, South Carolina, customhouse.

In 1905 they held a civil rights conference in Niagara Falls.