Roosevelt has been the main figure identified with progressive conservatism as a political tradition. Roosevelt stated that he had “always believed that wise progressivism and wise conservatism go hand in hand”.

Today, Roosevelt is criticized by right-wing conservatives and libertarians for his extensive economic interventionism. These critics often accuse his policies of prolonging what they believe would otherwise have been a much shorter recession. Roosevelt raised tax rates on the wealthy to a top marginal tax rate of 79%.

Terms in this set (12) FDR had to agree to too many compromises for political power. Couldn’t end segregation. The New Deal “relief and reform” only preserved capitalism. Didn’t change the unequal distribution of wealth.

The New Deal was responsible for some powerful and important accomplishments. It put people back to work. It saved capitalism. It restored faith in the American economic system, while at the same time it revived a sense of hope in the American people.

The Great Depression was a worldwide economic depression that lasted 10 years. GDP during the Great Depression fell by half, limiting economic movement. A combination of the New Deal and World War II lifted the U.S. out of the Depression.

Roosevelt. The programs focused on what historians refer to as the “3 R’s”: relief for the unemployed and poor, recovery of the economy back to normal levels, and reform of the financial system to prevent a repeat depression.

The youngest person to assume the presidency was Theodore Roosevelt, who, at the age of 42, succeeded to the office after the assassination of William McKinley. The youngest to become president by election was John F. Kennedy, who was inaugurated at age 43.

The Square Deal was Theodore Roosevelt’s domestic program, which reflected his three major goals: conservation of natural resources, control of corporations, and consumer protection. These three demands are often referred to as the “three Cs” of Roosevelt’s Square Deal.

His policies reflected three basic ideas: conservation of natural resources, control of corporations, and consumer protection. These three demands often are referred to as the “three Cs” of Roosevelt’s Square Deal.

The Square Deal fundamentally changed the role of the federal government from one that was largely hands-off in temperament to one that took a much more active role in regulating the excesses of many businesses and industries.

Progressive concept by Roosevelt that would help capital, labor, and the public. It called for control of corporations, consumer protection, and conservation of natural resources. It denounced special treatment for the large capitalists and is the essential element to his trust-busting attitude.

Square Deal. Economic policy by Roosevelt that favored fair relationships between companies and workers. trusts.

“Square Deal” embraced the three Cs: control of the corporations, consumer protection, and the conservation of the United States’ natural resources.

What did Roosevelt want his Square Deal program to achieve? He want it to creat a fair honest, and just society in which everyone had an equal chance to succeed. Because of Roosevelt’s policies, national wild lands would be managed for their national resources, protecting them.

His New Freedom plan was similar to Roosevelt’s New Nationalism. It called for strict government controls over corporations. Wilson promised to bring down the “triple wall of privilege,” tariffs, banks, and trusts. In 1913, the Underwood Tariff Act cut tariffs leading to lower consumer prices.

A Progressive reformer, Roosevelt earned a reputation as a “trust buster” through his regulatory reforms and antitrust prosecutions. His “Square Deal” included regulation of railroad rates and pure foods and drugs; he saw it as a fair deal for both the average citizen and the businessmen.

The square deal support the regulations of large corporations and Railroads. In 19th century, science and technology advances and this gave a boost to some industries in the United State, particularly manufacturing and agricultural industries.

President Theodore Roosevelt was a leader of the Progressive movement, and he championed his “Square Deal” domestic policies, promising the average citizen fairness, breaking of trusts, regulation of railroads, and pure food and drugs.

The muckrakers played a highly visible role during the Progressive Era. Muckraking magazines—notably McClure’s of the publisher S. S. McClure—took on corporate monopolies and political machines, while trying to raise public awareness and anger at urban poverty, unsafe working conditions, prostitution, and child labor.

Square deal was an internal initiatives concentrating average Americans. This deal mostly dealt with the tyrannical labor condition and unfettered corporations of the United States. They were defending businesses against stroppy unions. It also intended to protect children and females in the workstation.

A direct result of the Newlands Reclamation Act was the building and managing of irrigation systems. sale of public land to pay for irrigation systems. creation of suitable areas for farming or ranching.

Terms in this set (10) building and managing of irrigation systems. Which of the following groups was the Square Deal intended to help? an illegal monopoly that was preying on citizens.

Theodore Roosevelt’s solution for dealing with different groups was called the Square Deal.

How did the Supreme Court limit the success of reform during the Progressive Era? The court sometimes repealed laws or parts of laws that concerned reform. Read the quotation from Lincoln Steffens’s The Shame of the Cities.

Terms in this set (38) What did the People’s Party believe would result from the government taking control of America’s railroads and banks? Government control would prevent those industries from taking advantage of small farmers. Populists wanted the government to make unlimited silver coins.

What was a benefit of the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906? The law provided improved medical care for people sickened by unsafe food. The law required that food be inspected by the government to ensure its safety. The law prohibited the sale of all unpreserved meats due to safety concerns.

1906 – Forbade the manufacture or sale of mislabeled or adulterated food or drugs, it gave the government broad powers to ensure the safety and efficacy of drugs in order to abolish the “patent” drug trade. Still in existence as the FDA.

Passed in 1906 largely in reaction to Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle, the law set strict standards of cleanliness in the meatpacking industry. Passed in 1906, the first law to regulate manufacturing of food and medicines; prohibited dangerous additives and inaccurate labeling.

A United States federal law that provided federal inspection of meat products and forbade the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated food products and poisonous patent medicines.

Meat Inspection Act of 1906, U.S. legislation, signed by Pres. Theodore Roosevelt on June 30, 1906, that prohibited the sale of adulterated or misbranded livestock and derived products as food and ensured that livestock were slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions.