Reforms and Roosevelt

• Economic and Political Reforms– Corporations were restricted, somewhat, from politics• Ex.: Railroads

– Child labor was effectively ended• A federal law fighting child labor was ruled unconstitutional• Nearly every state passed laws banning child labor

– Working conditions were improved at the state level• Many states passed laws limiting the hours an employee

could be made to work in a day, particularly women• Many states passed laws requiring employers to pay

workers’ compensation

– Government was made more representative• Primary systems were put in place in most states• The 17th amendment said that senators should be elected by

the people

Roosevelt – P. 523-525

1. How did Theodore Roosevelt become president?

2. What did Theodore Roosevelt do that brought him to national prominence?

3. How did Roosevelt create the modern presidency?

4. What was the “square deal”?

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

Read the excerpt from The Jungle and answer the following questions:

5. What do you think Sinclair’s purpose was in writing The Jungle?

6. What effect do you think The Jungle had on American society

• Health Reforms– Meat Inspection Act• Put in rules for hygiene for meatpackers• Instituted federal inspectors of meatpacking plants

– Pure Food and Drug Act• Outlawed the sale of contaminated food and medicine• Called for truth in labeling

Roosevelt and Civil Rights – P. 530-531

7. How did Progressives in general, and Roosevelt in particular, deal with the issue of Civil Rights?

8. Who was Booker T. Washington?9. Who was W. E. B. Du Bois?10. Compare and contrast the stances of

Washington and Du Bois (what did they agree on, what did they disagree on?)