1.) What role did President Roosevelt want the federal government to serve? P.597
• A small and uninvolved government would not work in the industrial era
• Wanted the government to act as an umpire
• Decide when big business was good and bad
2.) What reforms (think new laws, agencies, etc.) were achieved during Teddy Roosevelt’s presidency?
• Justice Department – antitrust laws to prosecute railroad, meatpacking, and oil trusts (he believed they were exploiting the public
• Pure Food and Drug Laws – protect from bad/expired food to be served to public
• Believed most efficient way to use and conserve resources would be for public management
^CONSERVATION^
• Hepburn Act - regulating price setting of railroads
3.) How did Teddy Roosevelt handle the 1902 United mine Workers’ Strike? How did this illustrate his stance toward unions?
• We need coal!
• Tried to stop the strikes
• The workers reasoned so they stopped striking
• Workers got less working time but no agreement to recognize the unions
• Teddy Roosevelt probably doesn’t like unions at this point in time
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