Roosevelts legacy

Federal government response to labor strikes in the 1800s

Used force to end them

Who ordered troops to break up the Great Railroad Strike of 1877?

Rutherford B. Hayes

Which president dispatched troops to stop the Pullman Strike in 1894?

Grover Cleveland

Local governments' response to strikes in the nineteenth century

Sent in police and the National Guard

Unique aspect of Roosevelt's handling of the Anthracite Coal Strike

He threatened to seize the mines to protect the public

Roosevelt's Secretary of War during the Anthracite Coal Strike

Elihu Root

Methods used by Roosevelt in labor disputes

Mediation and arbitration

Environmental problems faced by the U.S. in the early 1900s

Soil exhaustion, deforestation, and erosion

Purpose of the Newlands Reclamation Act of 1902

To fund irrigation and land development

Conservationist Roosevelt camped with in Yosemite in 1903

John Muir

Agreement between Roosevelt and Muir

Wilderness should remain undeveloped in some areas

How Roosevelt expanded federal conservation power

He doubled the number of national parks and created the authority to declare national monuments

What Roosevelt did before signing the 1907 law limiting his conservation ability

Protected 16 million acres of land

Number of national parks by 1916

16

Youth organizations reflecting growing public interest in nature

The Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts