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Why is Theodore Roosevelt’s face on Mount Rushmore?

Teddy Roosevelt was a man who saw the good and bad in everything, He created the square deal which allowed everyone to succeed and have the same amount of opportunities as the next person. For example, He read a book called The Jungle written by Upton Sinclair and he was disgusted and immediately started to reform our health guidelines for what we eat. He passed the Meat Inspection Act, which made it so that all meat made and sold, must be inspected before shipping out. He also created the Food and Drug Administration, which regulated all the ingredients put in foods, the inspections of said foods, and to make sure everything was safe for the consumer's consumption. In addition, he was

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