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How did Roosevelt come to be the president?

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He took over after William McKinley was assinated

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Who shot William McKinley?

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Leon Czolgosz (chol-gosh) while pretending to shake hands with McKinley

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Where was McKinley shot?

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Pan-American expo in Buffalo, NY

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When was McKinley shot and when did he die?

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shot on 09/06/1901, died on the fourteenth

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Who was Leon Czolgosz?

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  • anarchist (wide movement around the world in this time period)
  • tried and executed for murder i October of 1901
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Age of Theodore Roosevelt when he took office

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42 years old- youngest to take office at this time

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What set him apart from previous presidents?

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  • was very young
  • took a hands on approach
  • tried to solve coal strike (no military involvement)
  • known for toothy grin
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What does bully pulpit mean?

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where a person uses their position to get their message/point across
all modern day presidents use this (ex. Trump tweeting)

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What did Roosevelt stand for?

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  • progressivism
    • end of child labor
    • wanted suffrage
    • wanted to clean up the
      government
    • prohibition
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What was Roosevelt’s childhood like?

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  • sickly (had asthma)
  • stayed inside and read a lot
  • became in involved in sports as a teenager
  • came from wealthy New York family
  • both wife and mother died when he was 26
    -went to Dakota Territory and
    worked on his ranch
    -returned to politics 2 years
    later
  • was a “people person”
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What was the Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902?

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-May 12, 1902
-150,000 miners went on strike in eastern PA
-United Miners Workers of America (UMWA)

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3 reasons why the coal miners went on strike in 1902

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-wanted higher wages
-wanted shorter hours
-wanted recognition of their union

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What did people fear would happen when the strike continued?

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They were afraid it would cause a national disaster

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What happened when Roosevelt pushed for the use of an arbitrator?

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Union agreed, owners did not

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What three things happened when Roosevelt threatened to take over the mines?

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-owners agreed to arbitration
-workers got shorter work week and higher pay
-did not have to recognize union

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What three things happened when Roosevelt threatened to take over the mines?

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-owners agreed to arbitration
-workers got shorter work week and higher pay
-did not have to recognize union

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Why was this strike momentous?

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It was the1st time that the gov’t. stepped in to protect the interests of the workers and public.

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Three areas that Square Deal focused on…

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-limiting the power of the monopolies
-promoting public health and safety
-improving working conditions

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What was Roosevelt’s social program called?

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Square Deal

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Who were the two candidates in the election of 1904? Who won?

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-Theodore Roosevelt (R)
-Alton Parker (D)
-landslide victory for Roosevelt

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Roosevelt’s quote regarding the Square Deal

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“I promise to see that each is given a square deal, because he is entitled to no more and should receive no less.”

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What was Roosevelt’s opinion regarding large businesses and monopolies?

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He believed that big businesses were important to the country’s growth but believed companies should behave responsibly

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In 1901 these three men joined their railroads together?

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J.P. Morgan, James Hill and E. H. Harriman

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What was the name of the new, combined railroad in 1901?

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Northern Securities Company

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Why did Roosevelt have the U.S. Attorney General sue the Northern Securities Company?
for breaking the Sherman Antitrust act
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What was the ruling of the court case dealing with the Northern Securities Company?
Supreme Court ruled against NSC and ordered it to be broken up
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What were the "bad" trusts?
-were not in the public interest -sold inferior products, competed unfairly, -corrupted public officials
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Why did railroads need regulated?
-railroads commonly gave best customers discounts -big corporations paid less to ship their goods than smaller companies (farms suffered)
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What was the Elkins Act of 1903?
-prohibited railroads from accepting rebates (discounts)
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What was the Hepburn Act of 1906?
-strengthened the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) by giving it the power to -set maximum railroad rates -regulate companies involved in interstate commerce
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Stupid, weird, gross things companies thought were ok to do in the early 1900s
-add formaldehyde to (rotten) eggs to hide odor -adding saw dust to bread (in place of flour) -candy coloring was toxic -some medicines mostly contained heroin or opium (doctors were kinda dumb)
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What gross, appalling book did Mr. Upton Sinclair write that made everyone realize how much rat poo and poison they were eating?
The Jungle
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What two acts were prompted by the Jungle?
-Meat Inspection Act of 1906 -Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906
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What was the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906?
-forbid the manufacture, sale, distribution of food and patent medicine with harmful ingredients -required food and medicine containers to have accurate labels
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What was the Meat Inspection Act of 1906?
- required federal inspection of meat shipped across state lines
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Roosevelt believed in conservation... What is conservation?
regulated the use of natural resources
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Who was John Muir and what was his opinion?
a tree hugger who wanted federal reserves and land to be protected from the industry
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In what ways did the people of the 1800s demonstrate natural resources being unlimited?
-lumber companies cleared large amounts of land (w/o replanting trees) -farmers plowed up the Great Plains (dust bowl) -ranchers overgrazed the prairies -mining companies polluted rivers and created soil erosion -cities polluted rivers and created garbage dumps
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How did Roosevelt's and Muir's opinion differ when it comes to the environment?
Basically... Muir believed in preserving national parks, Roosevelt believed the same thing, but thought there should be a road paved for economical benefit
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What was the Newland's Reclamation Act of 1902
-irrigation projects in the West to make the land productive -established the U.S. Forest Service -Gifford Pinchot became chief of it -added almost 150 million acres to the national forests
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What was the Antiquities Act of 1906?
-protected all historic and prehistoric sites on federal land -cannot excavate without a permit

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