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USHX 9.1 Roosevelt Becomes President

Homework: Eighteenth Amendment & Nineteenth Amendment

Eighteenth Amendment: made it illegal to manufacture, sell, or transport alcoholic Nineteenth Amendment: gave women the right to vote

OBJECTIVES

The student will be able to identify ways that President Roosevelt attempted to balance the needs of both business and labor by analyzing his attempts to regulate commerce.

1. McKinley was assassinated in 1901 & Theodore Roosevelt became president.

2. Roosevelt believed that the needs of business, labor, and consumers should be balanced.

3. Roosevelt demonstrated this belief during a Pennsylvania coal miners’ strike in 1902.

4. Coal mine workers had demanded better pay, and a eight-hour day.

5. However, mine operators refused to meet their demands.

6. In protest, more than 150,000 miners went on strike.

7. The strike resulted in coal shortages and higher prices.

8. Roosevelt feared that the strike would leave the country without heating fuel

9. He called the strikers and mine operators together for arbitration and to settle the strike.

10. Roosevelt’s program to treat every citizen fairly was called the Square Deal

|Terms To Know: |Evaluating Information |

|• anarchist: person who believes all governments are bad and should be eliminated |1. F 6. T |

|• trust: a legal grouping of companies together under one board of directors |2. F 7. T |

|• progressives: people who favor reform |3. F 8. F |

| |4. T 9. T |

| |5. F |

|Interpreting Visual Images |Matching |

|1. Northern Securities Company |1. d 6. g |

|2. ordered the Justice Department to prosecute the trust under the Sherman Antitrust Act |2. b 7. a |

|3. Supreme Court upheld Sherman Antitrust Act and dissolved Northern Securities; Roosevelt then supported |3. k 8. e |

|regulation of railroads and shipping rates. |4. l 9. f |

| |5. j 10. h |

Summary: In today’s lesson, I learned the Teddy Roosevelt started the Square Deal, help pass the Pure Food and Drug Act and began conservation of our country’s natural resources.

Homework: Arbitration & Anarchist

Arbitration: a formal meeting to discuss and settle disagreements

Anarchist: person who believes all governments are bad and should be eliminated

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Name __________________________ Class _______________ Date ________________

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USHX 9.1 Roosevelt Becomes President

Terms To Know:

• anarchist

• trust

• progressives

EVALUATING INFORMATION Mark each statement T if it is true or F if it is false.

______ 1. T, Roosevelt was wealthy and therefore was not sympathetic to the less-fortunate.

______ 2. Roosevelt believed that the president should be only an administrator, not an active leader.

______ 3. The Penn. coal miners’ strike of 1902 was settled when Pres. Roosevelt sent the U.S. Army to force the strikers back to work.

______ 4. The Penn. coal miners' strike of 1902 was settled by arbitration.

______ 5. The Square Deal plan promised every person would get the best of everything.

______ 6. Roosevelt believed that “good” trusts provided needed products and services at reasonable prices, while “bad” trusts restricted trade unfairly and charged high prices.

______ 7. Muckraking journalists helped raise public awareness of problems in the food and drug industries.

______ 8. Upton Sinclair’s book, The Jungle, made the public aware of the world’s rainforests.

______ 9. The Pure Food and Drug Act outlawed the manufacture, sale, or transportation of mislabeled or contaminated food and drugs sold across state lines.

INTERPRETING VISUAL IMAGES Examine the drawing below and answer the questions that follow.

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1. What company had a monopoly on much of this form of transportation in the Northwest ?

2. What action did President Roosevelt take against this company?

3. What were the results of that action?

MATCHING Match each of the following people or terms with the correct description by writing the letter of the description in the space provided. Some descriptions will not be used.

______ 1. Theodore Roosevelt ______ 6. arbitration

______ 2. Square Deal ______ 7. Northern Securities Company

______ 3. Gifford Pinchot ______ 8. The Jungle

______ 4. Pure Food and Drug Act ______ 9. preservationists

______ 5. conservation _____10. National Park Service

a. railroad trust prosecuted in 1902 by T. Roosevelt’s Justice Department under the Sherman Antitrust Act

b. presidential plan to treat labor unions, corporations, and private citizens fairly

c. anarchist who assassinated President William McKinley in 1901

d. president who pursued progressive reforms such as antitrust lawsuits, regulation of the food and drug industries, and conservation of American wildlife and wilderness areas

e. novel by muckraker Upton Sinclair that exposed unsanitary practices in the meatpacking industry

f. individuals, such as John Muir, who wanted to protect nature for its beauty

g. formal meeting to discuss and settle disagreements, such as the 1902 meeting that ended the Pennsylvania coal miners’ strike

h. government agency created in 1916 to oversee the increasing number of national parks and monuments

i. Democratic candidate defeated by Theodore Roosevelt in the presidential election of 1904

j. effort to protect nature and its resources

k. conservationist who served as Chief of Forestry

l. outlawed the manufacture, sale, or transportation of mislabeled or contaminated food and drugs sold in interstate commerce

Summarize today’s lesson in your own words:

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