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Roosevelt's Square Deal (Health and Environment (Regulating Food and…

- - - - removed competition and then raised prices
        
        didn't believe they were all bad
        
        monopoly hurt the public
  - - - Mine operators rejected the demand at first until Roosevelt threatened to take over the mine
        
        The miners got a 10% pay hike with a nine hour work day and whenever there was a strike the federal government was expected to get involved
  - - - From Roosevelts urge the congress passed the Elkins Act
        
        made it illegal for railroad officials to give and shippers receive rebates
- - - - NAACP that had 6000 members by 1914 aimed for nothing less than full equality among both races
- - - - The compromise that won the acts passage left the government to pay for the inspections
  - - - Food and Drug acts
        
        The Bureau of chemistry which later became the FDA (Food Drug Administration) took responsibility of the law enforcement
  - - - Coal companies cluttered the land with refuse from the mines
        
        Cities dumoed untreated sewage and indutstrial wastes into rivers, poison streams and creating health hazards
  - - - Also set out 1.5 million acres of water
        
        Roosevelt established more than 50 wildlife sanctuaries