The Square Deal (sep 14, 1901 – mar 4, 1909)

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CORPORATIONS: TRUST BUSTING
- trust busting
- broke up the Northern Securities Company in
1902
- good (effective) vs. bad trusts (solely greedy)
- increased power in Interstate Commerce
Commission
- Elkins Act (1903)
- Hepburn Act (1906)

CONSUMER PROTECTIONS
- Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" led to public
focusing on the unsanitary meat industry
- Meat Inspection Act (1906)
- Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)

CONSERVATION
- Sierra Club (1892) advocated for environment
- Forest Reserve Act of 1891
- TR used it to protect 150 acres
- Newlands Reclamation Act of 1902
- conservation vs. preservation
- conservation -> Gifford Pinchot, gov.
regulation
- preservation -> John Muir, leave alone
- TR is in the middle
- Hetch-Hetchy Controversy
- Pinchot wanted a dam and Muir didn't
- Pinchot wins!

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