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These are TR's Three Cs
What are control of corporations, consumer protection, and conservation of natural resources.
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Industry that had a 1902 strike. Showed TR would back labor over management.
What is coal?
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Term TR used to describe extremists on either side of an issue.
What is lunatic fringe?
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Morgan's trust busted up by TR.
What is Northern Securities?
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1906 Act designed to prevent the adulteration and mislabeling of foods and pharmaceuticals.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
200
Fair treatment for labor, capital, and the public at large.
What is the Square Deal?
200
established in 1903 to help tame antagonisms between business and labor
What is Department of Commerce and Labor?
200
1906 Act: meat shipped over state lines subject to federal inspection.
What is the Meat Inspection Act?
200
Year of financial panic on Wall Street thought to be the result of an antiquated banking system.
What is 1907?
200
created in 1903 cabinet body authorized to probe businesses engaged in interstate commerce
What is the Bureau of Corporations?
300
This 1908 act authorized national banks to issue emergency currency backed by various kinds of collateral.
What is the Aldrich-Vreeland Act?
300
1903 Act aimed primarily at prohibiting railroad rebates
What is the Elkins Act?
300
1906 Act: aimed at curbing corrupt railroad practices and strengthening the Interstate Commerce Commission.
What is the Hepburn Act?
300
TR's philosophy that said bigger government needed to remedy economic and social abuses.
What is New Nationalism?
300
Nickname for Progressive party.
What is Bull Moose?
400
Taft policy of encouraging Wall St. to invest in foreign areas of strategic importance to the United States.
What is Dollar Diplomacy?
400
He was TR's chief forester.
Who is Gifford Pinchot?
400
Controversy that set off a debate: should preserved land be left untouched or used intelligently?
What is the Hetch Hetchy Controversy?
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This 1894 Act distributed federal lands to the states on the condition that it be irrigated and settled.
What is the Carey Act?
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Policy of Taft: encouraged businesses to invest in places of strategic value to the US.
What is Dollar Diplomacy?
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This 1903 Agency was created by Congress in response to TR's perception of mounting antagonism between business and labor.
What is the Department of Commerce and Labor?
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This 1877 Act let the federal government sell arid land cheaply on the condition the purchaser must irrigate the land within three years.
What is the Desert Land Act of 1877?
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Important naturalist and environmentalist of the time.
Who is John Muir?
500
This 1902 Act authorized Congress to collect money from the sale of public lands in the western states and use these funds for irrigation projects.
What is the Newlands Act?
500
Tariff passed during Taft's administration that actually raised many rates on imports.
What is the Payne-Aldrich Bill?