17.3: Teddy Roosevelt's Square Deal

MATES US History I, Holland 2024

“bully pulpit”

power of the president to influence the media and shape legislation

square deal

program of progressive reforms designed to protect the common people against big business

The Jungle

written by Upton Sinclair, it shed the sickening conditions of the meatpacking industry

Meat Inspection Act

strict cleanliness requirements and created federal meat inspection

Pure Food and Drug Act

• halted sales of contaminated foods and medicines

• called for truth in labeling

conservation

preserving of land, Roosevelt believed it also meant dev. for the common good

limitations of Progressivism

• Progressivism focused on middle-class whites

• failed to support civil rights for AA’s but supported some like Booker T. Washington

• upset with lack of progress, W.E.B. Du Bois helped found the NAACP

NAACP (1909)

• goal-equality among the races

• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People