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Essential Question: Can Politics Fix Social Problems?

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5.2: Roosevelt and Taft (p. 224)

Essential Question: Can politics fix social problems?

Video: Theodore Roosevelt Biography

1. Where did Roosevelt attend college?

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2. Describe the activities Roosevelt pursued after graduating from college.

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3. What two elected offices did Roosevelt hold that are mentioned in the video?

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Roosevelt Revives the Presidency

1. Theodore Roosevelt became president at age _____– the youngest person ever to take the office. In

international affairs, he believed in ______________ __________________, which held that nations

were in competition and only the strongest would survive. Domestically, however, he was a committed

______________. He believed that the government should balance the need of ______________ groups

in American society on behalf of the public interest. His reform programs soon became known as the

___________ _________.

Roosevelt Takes on the Trusts

1. He wanted to ensure that ____________ did not abuse their power.

2. His first target was J.P. Morgan’s ______________ ______________ company, Northern Securities.

3. Farmers and ________________ feared that without railroad competition, shipping rates would _______

and reduce their ___________. In 1902, Roosevelt ordered the attorney general to sue Northern

Securities under the ______________ ______________ Act.


4. In 1904, in Northern Securities v. _________ _________ , the Supreme Court ruled that Morgan’s firm

had violated the Sherman Antitrust Act.

Northern Securities and The Commerce Clause

1. The Supreme Court’s decision in the Northern Securities case marked yet another shift in the

relationship between the ____________ government and ____________ business.

2. It was agreed that the _____________ gives the federal government the power to ____________

commerce between the states, not within a state.

3. It would take many decades and several Supreme Court decision, but the interpretation of the commerce

clause of the Constitution has been gradually ____________ allowing the federal ______________

more and more ____________ to regulate ____________ business.

The Coal Strike of 1902

1. He worked to help resolve a coal _________ between mine owners and nearly ___________ members

of the United Mine Workers (UMW). The UMW wanted increased _______, reduced _________, and

union _________________. If the strike had dragged on, the _________ would have faced a

_________ shortage that could have shut down factories and left many homes ____________ in the

___________.

2. Roosevelted urged the UMW and the mine workers to accept _____________- a settlement negotiated

by an outside party.

Regulating Big Business

1. He agreed with the opponents of trust-busting who argued that companies generally formed trusts

because it was the most efficient way to do business. Breaking up a _________ would make an industry

less ____________ and drive up costs for the public.

2. U.S. Steel had formed a trust in the United States, but was competing against huge ____________ steel

companies in _________, _________ , and __________. Standard Oil had formed a trust in the United

States, but it was competing globally against Burmah Oil in _________, Royal Dustch Petroleum (today
known as _________ Oil), and many other companies. Antitrust against an American company might

cripple its _________ to ___________ internationally.

3. He believed that the most effective way to prevent big ____________ from abusing its power was to

keep the __________ informed.

4. In 1903, Roosevelt convinced Congress to create the Department of __________ and ___________. The

following year, this department began ____________ U.S. Steel, a gigantic holding company that had

been created in 1901.

5. In keeping with his belief in regulation, Roosevelt pushed the _________ Act through Congress in

_________. The act was intended to strengthen the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) by giving it

power to set railroad rates.

6. That year, a muckraker journalist named Samuel Hopkins _________ published several articles in

Collier’s magazine describing the patent medicine business. Many companies patented and marketed

potions they claimed would cure a variety of ills. Many of these medicines were little more than

___________, colored __________, and _________ .

7. Many people were equally concerned about the _________ they ate.

8. For similar reasons, food preparation businesses came under scrutiny. In 1906, Upton _________

published a novel, The Jungle, based on his close observation of the slaughterhouses in ____________.

9. Roosevelt and Congress responded with the _________ Inspection Act, passed in 1906, that required

federal ___________ of meat sold through the interstate commerce and for the Agriculture Department

to set standards of ____________ in meat packing plants. The _________ _________ and _________

Act, passed on the same day in 1906, prohibited the manufacture, sale, or shipment of impure or falsely

labeled _________ and _________ .

Conservation

1. Of all his progressive actions, Roosevelt may be best remembered for his efforts in ______________

conservation.
2. He cautioned against ____________ use of public _________ and argued that conservation should be

the guiding principle in managing the United States’ natural ____________.

Western Land Development

1. In 1902, Roosevelt supported passage of the Newlands Reclamation Act. This act authorized the use of

federal _________ from public land sales to pay for irrigation and land development ____________.

2. Roosevelt added more than ______ million acres to the protected national forests and established five

new national parks and ______ federal wildlife reservations.

Roosevelt’s Legacy

1. Americans began looking to the federal ___________ to solve the nation’s ____________ and

____________ problems.

2. What did each of the following do?

a. Interstate Commerce Commision: __________________________________________________

b. Department of Commerce and Labor: _______________________________________________

c. Expedition Act: ________________________________________________________________

d. National Park Service in 1916: ____________________________________________________

Taft’s Reforms

1. Taft easily secured the Republican nomination and won the election of ___________.

Taft Angers Progressives

1. He signed into law the Payne-Aldrich Tariff, which hardly cut tariffs at all and actually raised them on

some goods. Progressives felt ___________ by Taft’s decisions.

2. Ballinger tried to open nearly a million acres of ___________ lands to private _______________.

3. Taft fired Pinchot for ________________, or disobedience to ___________.

Taft’s Achievements

1. In 1912, he established the _____________ Bureau. This agency investigated and publicized the

problems of ___________ labor.


2. In 1910, Taft set up the Bureau of Mines to monitor the activities of ___________ companies, expand

___________ forests, and protect _____________ sites from private development.

3. In late February 1912, Roosevelt announced he would enter the presidential campaign of 1912 and

attempt to replace Taft as the Republican nominee for president.

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The text on the bottom reads:

Observation

The President- What a Fine View We Are Having of the Mountain

Sheep – I’ve Watched Thousand Fellows a Full Quarter of an Hour.

The Sheep- Its Only Once in a Lifetime That You Get So Good a

Chance to See the President Without a Gun.

Question: How does this political cartoon connect with Theodore Roosevelt’s presidency? Use CER to answer

below.
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