HIST 1200 Lecture Notes - Roosevelt Corollary, Great White Fleet, Federal Meat Inspection Act
Document Summary
Muckraking: journalism that exposed corporate and political wrongdoing and social injustice. Upton sinclair"s the jungle (1906) led to pure food and drug act and the meat inspection act: panic of 1907: a run on the banks and trusts companies caused by a 50% drop in the stock market. J. p. morgan stepped in to avert disaster by propping up weak institutions in exchange for roosevelt"s word not to institute antitrust proceedings against. U. s. steel when it acquired tennessee coal and iron. Progressives condemned deal as collusion between government and business. Placed the nation"s conservation policy in hands of scientifically trained experts: congressional backlash: antiquities act of 1906 gave the president unchecked power to protect significant federal lands. Congress put the brakes on roosevelt"s environmental efforts by passing a law limiting his power to create forest reserves. Roosevelt saved an additional 16 million acres: roosevelt and the world, foreign policy and executive power: roosevelt was convinced of congress"s ineptitude in foreign affairs.
