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The Coal Strike of 1902
Conservation
Further Regulation
Assessing Roosevelt's Progressive Policies
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How did Theodore Roosevelt become president?
Roosevelt succeeded McKinley after he was assassinated.
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How many workers walked out of anthracite mines in eastern Pennsylvania, starting in May of 1902?
150,000
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What is the definition of conservation?
The planned management of natural resources to prevent destruction or neglect
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Who won the election of 1904?
Theodore Roosevelt
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How did Roosevelt use his failure to effect a revision of the tariff to his advantage?
He occasionally threatened to bring it up unless congressional leaders supported other legislative measures.
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Name one out of the 3 beliefs that the "Square Deal" states.
1. All people succeed through strong personal ethics 2. A sense of fairness 3. Adherence to the spirit of the law
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Name 3 causes of the strike.
1.low wages 2.frequent layoffs 3.cheaply built company towns
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In what year did an act of Congress create Yellowstone National Park?
1872
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What did New York's "Sun" accuse Roosevelt of doing?
It accused him of "bringing wealth to its knees and putting labor unions above the law"
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Why did Roosevelt never seriously support long-overdue efforts?
To make the banking system more stable and the currency system more flexible.
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Why did Roosevelt urge Congress to pass legislation regulating big businesses?
Industries were merging at an all-time rate.
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Why did George F. Baer refuse John Mitchel's suggestion to ask mine operators to determine whether miner's wages were adequate?
Baer said, "Anthracite mining is a business and not a religious,, sentimental, or academic proposition."
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What is the Forest Reserve Act?
It empowered presidents to set aside land for national forests and withdraw forest lands from the public domain.
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What did the Meat Inspection Act of 1906 allow?
It gave government the right to inspect meats sold in interstate commerce and the right to enforce cleaner conditions in meatpacking plants.
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What is one reason for the failure to produce much reform legislation?
Roosevelt's feeling that politics was "the art of the possible"
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Why did the Supreme Court overturn the decisions made when Northern Securities Company were taken to court by the attorney general?
They violated the Sherman Act.
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Why did Baer's actions further desert a public already sympathetic to the workers?
Baer refused to listen to the miner's complaints, to submit to arbitration, or to recognize the United Mine Workers as the true representative of the miners.
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Name 3 of Roosevelt's efforts to conserve land.
1. stimulated public interest in the subject by writing 2. he took publicized holiday trips to the West 3. he constantly pushed for better conservation laws
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Why did Roosevelt urge tighter regulation as an alternative to railroads being owned and operated by the government? What were the results?
He thought it would cause another disaster. As a result of popular support, clever politics, and willingnes to compromise, Roosevelt was able to oush the Hepburn Bill through the Senate 18 months after he urged Congress to act.
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What idea did Roosevelt promote through his Square Deal?
The idea that the cure for the evils of unrestrained individualism was not socialism but moderate reform.
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Explain why Roosevelt was not opposed to all trusts.
He believed the government should leave honest corporations alone; only the trusts that damaged the public or worked outside the law should be regulted or broken up
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Why was J. Pierpont Morgan's action to put enough pressure on the operators to force them to back down a concern?
Because United States bussinesses would suffer if the strike continued
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What was the Newlands Act of 1902?
It provided federal aid to irrigation in dry states.
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Name 2 ways that the Hepburn Act of 1906 strenthened the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887.
-it abolished 'free pass' that railroads granted to politicians and other influential people -it widened the jurisdiction of the Interstate Commerce Commission to include express companies, pipelines, and sleeping-car companies
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Why did some people think Roosevelt was the best publicity man progressivism ever had?
Because he always created a demand for reform