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Bully Pulpit - push a political agenda by getting the American people on your side bring progressivism to the national stage Why is this effective???? Square Deal – all Americans get a fair deal TR’s progressive policy: corporate control; consumer protection; conservation As President
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Prominent NY family State legislator; Civil Service
National Gov’t; Police Commission NYC; Governor NYC; Assistant Secr of Navy; “War Hero” Spanish-American War; VP under McKinley
Writer & avid outdoorsman Popular bc of war Known anti-corruption/progressive Respected by press
Theodore Roosevelt
Bully Pulpit - push a political agenda by getting the American people on your side bring progressivism to the
national stage Why is this effective????
Square Deal – all Americans get a fair deal TR’s progressive policy: corporate
control; consumer protection; conservation
As President
Came about as a result of ___________
Meat Inspection Act 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act 1906
Consumer Protection
Arbitrator in Coal Strike Good Trusts versus Bad
Trusts Suit against Northern Securities
44 other suits against trusts Elkins Act, 1903
ICC had power impose fines rr and sellers who give/accept rebates
Hepburn Act, 1906 ICC set maximum rates
Control of Corporations
expanded the national park system
established bird and wildlife refuges
designated important historic and geographical sites as national monuments.
More regulation/fees on use of land in west
Conservation
What was “progressive” about TR?
What was not “progressive” about TR? Or at least could have been more “progressive”?
