U.S. History
Mr. Boothby
1/19/2016
Target
Chapter 29: America on the World Stage PT2
http://www.apnotes.net/notes-12e/ch29-12e.html
Roosevelt Saves Environment/ National Parks/ Taft: Dollar Diplomacy/THE
JUNGLE!
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FINAL EXAM PREP AND FINISH PROJ!!!
Silently Read Pages:675-686
A FEW QUESTIONS TODAY!
EXAM PREP!!
AND FINISH EVERYTHING!!!
1) In what ways did Congress and the President challenge the power
of Railroads and Trusts (List and explain at least 2)?
2) How did Upton Sinclair’s “THE JUNGLE” and botulism found in
tainted meats lead to the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 (WHY)?
3) What forms of “Earth Control” did President Roosevelt use and
what is he responsible for? (Hint: See page 676. Some of you have
been there!)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------4) Discuss and be an expert on William Howard Taft’s Dollar
Diplomacy! + TAFTS TRUST BUSTING!
Roosevelt gets ticked at Taft and runs again for President, coming out of
retirement in 1912 running as an independent party: The Bull Moose Party. (I’m not
making this stuff up folks!)
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1) In what ways did Congress and the President challenge the power
of Railroads and Trusts?
Congress passed the Hepburn Act of 1906, which restricted free
passes and expanded the Interstate Commerce Commission. (Free
passes: rewards offered to companies, in the form of free
shipments; given to companies to encourage future business.)
In 1902, President Roosevelt challenged the Northern Securities
Company, a railroad trust company that sought to achieve a
monopoly of the railroads in the Northwest. The Supreme Court
upheld the President and the trust was forced to be dissolved.
2) How did Upton Sinclair’s “THE JUNGLE” and botulism found in
tainted meats lead to the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906?
After botulism was found in American meats, foreign governments
threatened to ban all American meat imports. President Roosevelt
passed the Meat Inspection Act of 1906. The act stated that the
preparation of meat shipped over state lines was subject to federal
inspection.
The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 was designed to prevent the
adulteration and mislabeling of foods and pharmaceuticals.
3) What forms of “Earth Control” did President Roosvelt use and
what is he responsible for? (Hint: See page 676. Some of you have
been there!)
The first step towards conservation came with the Desert Land Act of
1887, in which the federal government sold dry land cheaply on the
condition that the purchaser would irrigate the soil within 3 years. A
more successful step was the Forest Reserve Act of 1891. It
authorized the president to set aside public forests as national parks
and other reserves. The Carey Act of 1894 distributed federal land to
the states on the condition that it be irrigated and settled.
President Roosevelt, a naturalist and rancher, convinced Congress
to pass the Newlands Act of 1902, which authorized the federal
government use money from the sale of public lands in western
states to develop irrigation projects.
In 1900, Roosevelt, attempting to preserve the nation's shrinking
forests, set aside 125 million acres of land in federal reserves.
Under President Roosevelt, professional foresters and engineers
developed a policy of "multiple-use resource management." This
policy sought to sustainably use federal lands for recreation,
logging, watershed protection, and cattle grazing.
4) Discuss and be an expert on William Howard Taft’s Dollar
Diplomacy! + TAFTS TRUST BUSTING!
Roosevelt gets ticked at Taft and runs again for President, coming
out of retirement in 1912 running as an independent party: The Bull
Moose Party. (I’m not making this stuff up folks!)
Taft encouraged Wall Street bankers to invest in foreign areas of
strategic interest to the United States (dollar diplomacy). American
bankers thus strengthened American defenses and foreign policies,
while bringing prosperity to America.
Japan and Russia controlled the railroads in China's Manchuria.
President Taft feared that this monopoly would eventually hurt
American merchants. In 1909, Secretary of State Philander C. Knox
proposed that Americans buy the Manchurian railroads and then turn
them over to China. Both Japan and Russia rejected the selling of
their railroads.
Taft the Trustbuster
Taft brought 90 lawsuits against trusts during his 4 years in office, as
opposed to Roosevelt's 44 suits in 7 years.
In 1911, the Supreme Court ordered the dissolution of the Standard
Oil Company, stating that it violated the Sherman Anti-Trust Act of
1890.
Also in 1911, the Supreme Court laid out its "rule of reason"
doctrine. This stated that a trust was illegal only if it unreasonably
restrained trade.
The Taft-Roosevelt Rupture
In 1911, the National Progressive Republican League was formed
with La Follette as its leading candidate for the Republican
presidential nomination. La Follette was chosen because it was
assumed that Roosevelt would not re-run for election.
In February of 1912, Theodore Roosevelt decided to challenge Taft
for the Republican presidential nomination. (La Follette was replaced
by Roosevelt.) Roosevelt and Taft became opponents because
Roosevelt felt that Taft had discarded many of Roosevelt's policies.
Taft won the Republican nomination after Roosevelt Republicans
refused to vote at the 1912 Republican convention, claiming fraud.
Roosevelt continued on as a 3rd-party candidate.
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Study tonight!!!
1. What belief states that the United States should control all
territory between Atlantic and Pacific Oceans?
2. What policy for foreign affairs used by President W.H. Taft?
3. Which race became a target of the EARLY immigration acts
(HINT: Exclusionary ones)?
4. Which amendment to the constitution is linked the closest to the
“Emancipation Proclamation”?
5. Which country was the first one to begin building the Panama
Canal (HINT: They failed!)?
6. What did the case of Plessy V. Ferguson establish that lasted
until the 1950’s?
7. The immediate cause of the Spanish-American War was the…
8. Which group pushed for the 18th amendment?
9. Which president’s farewell address (1796) gave direct warning
about imperialism?
10. What was President Roosevelt (Teddy Roosevelt) best known
as?
11. Which term relates closely with the term “Yellow
Journalism”?
12. What was the book “The Octopus” about?
14. Who was known as “The Wizard of Menlo Park”?
16. What happened at Promontory Point Utah that changed the
world?
17. Who shot the president of the United States at Ford’s
Theater?
18. What does the Bessemer process do?
19. What did John Hay do for US Naval Strength?
20. What was the “Boxer Rebellion”? Where was it?
21.
Who led the Rough Riders in Cuba?
22. Affairs in what countries reinforced the provisions of the
Monroe Doctrine.
23. He wrote the book Influence of Sea Power in History?
24. What Union General made reconstruction more difficult due
his property damage and scorched Earth policies?
25. Which amendment to the US Constitution deals with voting
rights for African-American males?