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Teddy Roosevelt’s Progressive Agenda
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What was Roosevelt’s view of presidential powers?
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What did Roosevelt do to Executive Power?
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What did Roosevelt mean with his progressive agenda theme of the “Square Deal?”
1902 Anthracite Coal Strike – Government Changes Positions on Labor Unions
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What were the striking coal miners demanding?
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What did Roosevelt promise the miners?
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Why were Americans panicking?
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What had no President ever done before?
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What did Roosevelt threaten to do if the coal management and labor were unable to come to an agreement?
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What was the significance of the Coal Strike of 1902 as it relates to the position of government toward labor?
The Elkins Act and the Hepburn Act – Regulation of the Railroads
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What problems did the Interstate Commerce Act of 1886 have?
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What powers did the Elkins Act of 1903 add to the Interstate Commerce Act?
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What additional effect did the Elkins Act have?
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What powers did the Hepburn Act give to the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC)?
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How was the authority of the Interstate Commerce Commission expanded by the Hepburn Act?
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The Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act
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What is “patent medicine?
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What was the problem with patent medicines?
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Although many patent medicines advertised exotic ingredients, what ingredients were really in the medicines?
18.
Who helped bring awareness to the public of the dangers of careless food preparation and the increasing
incidence of drug addiction from patent medicines?
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Who offered scientific evidence of the widespread use of harmful preservatives used in the meat packing
industry?
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What other incident added impetus to improve the quality of prepared food?
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What bill was passed by a reluctant Congress in 1906?
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What were some of the provisions in the bill?
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b.
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What legislation closely followed the Pure Food and Drug Act?
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For what does USDA stand?
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What did the Meat Inspection Act require the USDA to do?
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What were the primary goals of the act?
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b.
Roosevelt Becomes the First Conservation President
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What caused TR to become such an advocate for conservation?
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Who was John Muir?
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Why was a conservation movement so badly needed?
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How did TR implement many of his conservation reforms?
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Besides the conferences and commissions that were initiated by Roosevelt to study the needs of conservation,
what were some of his other accomplishments?
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How was Gifford Pinchot instrumental in the conservation movement?
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What did the Newlands Reclamation Act of 1902 do?
Roosevelt the Trustbuster
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What nickname did Roosevelt get?
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What was a major thrust of this first modern president?
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What did TR want to do with the Sherman Anti-trust Act?
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What did Roosevelt believe about trusts?
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b.
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What new cabinet department was created in 1902?
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What new bureau or agency was included in this new cabinet department?
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What were its duties?
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What power did this bureau have?
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What “bad trust” did TR go after first?
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In dissolving this trust, what was the government trying to prevent?
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Against what rich and powerful man did the government clash in the Northern Securities case?
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On what had Ida Tarbell reported in her History of the Standard Oil Company?
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What are some methods Rockefeller used to drive his competitors out of business?
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After reading Tarbell’s reporting, what did the public demand?
48.
Once Roosevelt filed suit, what happened to Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Company?
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How many other antitrust suits did Roosevelt file?
50.
Although Roosevelt was instrumental in breaking up 44 trusts, what criticisms were leveled against him?
51.
How did each of these actions by Theodore Roosevelt contribute to the Square Deal philosophy? Write your
response as an essay in the space provided. (multiple sentences)