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Social Studies
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Theodore Roosevelt | President of the USA, was a proggressive |
| Square Deal | President Theodore's program of reforms to keep the wealthy and powerful from taking advantage of small business owners and the poor |
| Hepburn Act | 1906 law that gave the governmentb the authority to set and limit railroad rates and set maximum for ferries, bridge tolls, and oil pipelines |
| Meat Inspection Act | 1906 law that allowed federal inspect meat sold across the state lines and required federal inspection of meat processing plants |
| Pure Food and Drug Act | 1906 law that allowed the federal government to inspect meat sold across the state lines and required federal inspection of food and medicine and banned the interstate shipment and sale of impure food and misleading of food and drugs |
| John Muir | His efforts led congress to create Yosemite National park in 1890, also helped find the sierra club |
| Glifford Pinchot | led the Division of Foresty in the US Department of Agriculture |
| National Reclamation Act | 1902 law that gave the federal government power to decide where or how water would be distributed through the building and management of dams and irrigation projects |
| New Nationalism | President Theodore's plan to restore the government's trustbusting power |
| Proggressive | political party that emerged from the taft roosevelt battle that split the Republican party |
| What did Roosevelt want his square deal program to acheive | to keep the wealthy and powerful from taking advantage of small bussinesses, He wanted to keep the good powerful companies to stay but the powerful bully ones to not |
| what impact did Roosevelt actions make on the government | He was sympathtetic to both small and big companies, he made sure people were safe with the meat inspecction act, and pure food drug act. he also negociated a deal with coal miners |
| ICC | made sure all shippers were charged the same amount |
| Elkins Act | imposed fines on railroads that gave special rates to favored shipppers |
| The Jungle | describes the filthmeat packing plantsy, unhealthy |
| Payne Aldrich Act 1909 | Did not lower taxes as much as Roosevelt wanted |
| Mann Elkins Act | gave the government control over telephones and telegraph s |
| rule of reason | relaxed the hard line set by the Sherman Anti Trust. allowed big monoplies so long as they did not squeeze out smaller companies |
| Theodore thought | he was strong as a bull moose |