Roosevelt's Policies
This Roosevelt policy aimed to ensure fairness among all Americans and included three C's: control of corporations, consumer protection, and conservation.
What is the Square Deal?
The 1913 amendment that allowed for the direct election of U.S. senators.
What is the Seventeenth Amendment?
This muckraker wrote "The Jungle," exposing the unsanitary conditions in the meatpacking industry.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
The 1902 strike in this industry was crucial in leading Roosevelt to intervene in labor disputes for the first time.
What is the coal industry (Anthracite coal strike)?
This act, passed in 1891, allowed the president to set aside land for national forests.
What is the Forest Reserve Act?
Roosevelt’s foreign policy motto, which implied American readiness to use military force.
What is "Big Stick" diplomacy?
This 1906 act granted the Interstate Commerce Commission the power to set maximum railroad rates, further regulating the industry.
What is the Hepburn Act?
This muckraker exposed the monopolistic practices of the Standard Oil Company.
Who is Ida Tarbell?
This act required federal contractors to establish an eight-hour workday for their employees.
What is the Adamson Act?
The 1902 act that funded irrigation projects from proceeds from the sale of public lands.
What is the Newlands Act?
The act Roosevelt pushed that regulated the food and drug industries after public outcry from a famous novel's revelations.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906?
This 1902 act funded irrigation projects for the arid lands of the U.S. West using money from the sale of public lands.
What is the Newlands Reclamation Act?
Journalist who exposed corruption in city governments in "The Shame of the Cities."
Who is Lincoln Steffens?
This labor leader founded the American Federation of Labor, focusing on collective bargaining.
Who is Samuel Gompers?
This president is often credited with establishing the framework for modern environmental policy.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
This 1906 act aimed at improving the safety and quality of meats sold in the United States.
What is the Meat Inspection Act?
This policy, initiated by Roosevelt, aimed to replace patronage with merit-based hiring in the federal government.
What is the civil service reform?
Former immigrant who exposed horror on tenement life in NYC thru photography in his book How the Other Half Lives.
Who is Jacob Riis
The tragic event in 1911 that led to significant improvements in factory safety standards.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire?
He was the chief of the U.S. Forest Service and a key advisor to Roosevelt on conservation matters.
Who is Gifford Pinchot?
Roosevelt's innovative approach to managing natural resources, which involved both preserving and using them wisely.
What is conservationism?
Legislation that created a federal agency designed to investigate and regulate business practices.
What is the creation of the Federal Trade Commission?
This president's assassination led to an intensified focus on social reform due to his successor's progressive agenda.
Who is William McKinley (leading to Theodore Roosevelt's presidency)?
This 1894 strike by railway workers led to federal intervention due to disruptions in mail delivery.
What is the Pullman Strike?
This controversy involved a dispute over the federal government's right to use land in the Hetch Hetchy Valley for a dam.
What is the Hetch Hetchy controversy?