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The Progressive President
• President from 1901-1909
• First a Republican, but began to believe that it was the job of the federal government to intervene in order to improve the lives of citizens
• Formed the Progressive Party (aka the Bull Moose Party)
• Played a big role in the change from little government intervention to increased government responsibility and regulation
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Cool Facts About Teddy Roosevelt
• Youngest president ever (42)
• Avid boxer, blind in one eye
• Drank gallon of coffee a day
• Won the Nobel Peace Prize
• Wrote 44 books
• The teddy bear is named after him
• Skinny-dipped in the Potomac River while president
• Face on Mount Rushmore
• Gave the White House its name
• Only president to have a tattoo
• Helped invent modern football
• Shot in the middle of a speech – and continued
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Trustbusting • Trust = legal body created when many companies merge
together, sometimes forming a monopoly
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“Moving Day, March 4th”
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Working Conditions
• In 1902, coal miners in PA went on strike to demand a 20% pay increase, and shorter working hours, but the mine operators refused to bargain
• 5 months into the strike, coal supply ran low everywhere
• TR decided to intervene, invited both side to the White House to settle the strike
• TR threatened to take over the coal mines if no agreement could be reached, brought in experts for both sides
• A compromise was reached, miners won a 10% pay increase and a shorter work day if they promised not to strike for 3 years
• This set a new precedent for federal gov intervening in business and the use of experts to solve business disputes
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Public Health & Food Safety
• In the late 1800s, people claimed their products could do all kinds of things:
– Cure cancer, grow hair, cure blindness,
• Products were also made of many dangerous ingredients:
– Cocaine, mercury, opium, arsenic, morphine, alcohol
• Companies used unsanitary practices and intentionally mislabeled products
– Use of chemicals to hide rotten ingredients
– Renamed inactive ingredients, made up ingredients
• Pure Food & Drug Act
– Created a “truth in labeling” requirement, but didn’t outlaw harmful ingredients
– Created the Food and Drug Administration – a group dedicated to testing and monitoring food products/ingredients
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Public Health & Food Safety
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• Cocaine and alcohol in liquid form
• When states started passing prohibition, companies took out the alcohol and replaced it with sugar syrup
• Guess what they called it?
• Cocaine was removed in the 1920s
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Conservation
• Beginning in the 1880s, as Americans began to industrialize they also began to exploit their natural resources
– Coal companies left mining refuse all over
– Cities dumped sewage into rivers and streams used for drinking water
– Farmers and lumber companies wiped out forests and plowed up prairies
– Ranchers let cattle overgraze on land
• TR felt that conservation needed to become a primary concern
– Conservation = careful and limited use of certain natural resources
– He set aside 148 million acres of protected forest
– Created over 50 national parks and wildlife sanctuaries
– Headed up irrigation, dam, and agriculture projects
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