#5 Flashcards
Where did the coal strike take place?
Pennsylvania
During The Roosevelt Presidency-Taft, what year was the coal strike?
1902
Why was there a coal strike?
- 9 hr workday
- 20% wage increase
- begin a union
What did mine owners want?
Troops from the government
Who refused to give mine owners what they wanted?
Roosevelt
Where does Roosevelt invite the mine owners?
His oval office
Did mine owners take the invitation to Roosevelt’s Oval Office?
No mine owners refuse
Roosevelt is upset
After 4 months of work what is the outcome?
- 9 hour day
- 10% increase
- no right to union
What was Roosevelt seen as a “trust buster”?
Sought to get rid of “big business”
What occurred in 1903?
- Dept. of Commerce and Labor
- -> investigate a report on Corporation activities
- -> 44 lawsuits filed by Roosevelt administration
Election 1904
Roosevelt: Republican
Alton Parker: Democrat
Roosevelt won (336/140)
What becomes a state in 1907?
Oklahoma
What were some public health reforms?
- distillers, drug companies, meat packing plants
- Upton Sinclair: “The Jungle” (wrote the book)
- 1906 Meat Inspection Act
- -> required government approval of all meat shipped between states
What does the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act say?
- can’t sell tainted food or medicine
- patent medicines must state exact contents
- US seen as protecting the welfare of citizens
What were some ways the Roosevelt conserved natural resources?
- Took 150 acres from public sale and made it forestland
- Congress created: wildlife and national parks
