Essential Question: Can Politics Fix Social Problems?
Essential Question: Can Politics Fix Social Problems?
Essential Question: Can Politics Fix Social Problems?
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3. What two elected offices did Roosevelt hold that are mentioned in the video?
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1. Theodore Roosevelt became president at age _____– the youngest person ever to take the office. In
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
___________ _________.
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
1. The Supreme Court’s decision in the Northern Securities case marked yet another shift in the
2. It was agreed that the _____________ gives the federal government the power to ____________
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 ______________
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.
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
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
3. He believed that the most effective way to prevent big ____________ from abusing its power was to
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
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
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
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
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
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
Roosevelt’s Legacy
1. Americans began looking to the federal ___________ to solve the nation’s ____________ and
____________ problems.
Taft’s Reforms
1. Taft easily secured the Republican nomination and won the election of ___________.
1. He signed into law the Payne-Aldrich Tariff, which hardly cut tariffs at all and actually raised them on
2. Ballinger tried to open nearly a million acres of ___________ lands to private _______________.
Taft’s Achievements
1. In 1912, he established the _____________ Bureau. This agency investigated and publicized the
3. In late February 1912, Roosevelt announced he would enter the presidential campaign of 1912 and
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Observation
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Question: How does this political cartoon connect with Theodore Roosevelt’s presidency? Use CER to answer
below.
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