Context: During the industrial age, corporate giants like Carnegie Steel and Standard Oil had an iron grip on the economy. This allowed them to abuse their workers with low pay and poor working conditions, which led to numerous reforms and labor unions being formed, as well as workers being forced to live in sub-humane living conditions. Let’s delve deeper and analyze these reforms under the scope of the presidencies of Roosevelt, Taft, and Woodrow Wilson.)
Theodore Roosevelt(All of these reforms are a part of his Square Deal.)
Tenement Act of 1901
Silent recording: Poor living conditions, sleeping weird af, poor sanitation, Ahmed and I sleeping in awkward condition. (Tenement halls were poorly built housings that were cramped windowless …show more content…
(Roosevelt passed the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act in 1906 after reading The Jungle, which highlighted the health violations and unsanitary actions in the meatpacking industry. The Pure Food and Drug Act forbade the manufacture, sale, and transportation of adulterated or mislabeled food and drugs. The Meat Inspection Act provided that federal inspectors visit meatpacking plants to ensure that they met minimum standards of sanitation.)
Conservation
Display:Roosevelt hugging trees, Roosevelt stroking a rock labeled ‘oil’, show people chopping down trees and roosevelt getting pissed, show Roosevelt signing bills and fencing national parks
(Roosevelt thought that the protection of the nation’s natural resources and nature in general was an extremely urgent matter. During his presidency, he used the Antiquities Act of 1906 to protect about 230 million acres of land. He also nominated Garfield Pinchot to the head of the Division of Forestry, who would later be fired by Taft.
*African American …show more content…
When New York representative Sereno Payne proposes the reduction of tariffs and the substitution of income taxes, Rhode Island Senator Nelson Aldrich disagrees and says that though the Republican party promised the revision of tariffs, they did not specify whether or not they would revise the tariffs upwards or downwards. Most republicans criticize the tariff, but Taft signs it anyway. Throughout Taft’s presidency he also vetoed multiple attempts by congress to lower
Theodore Roosevelt(All of these reforms are a part of his Square Deal.)
Tenement Act of 1901
Silent recording: Poor living conditions, sleeping weird af, poor sanitation, Ahmed and I sleeping in awkward condition. (Tenement halls were poorly built housings that were cramped windowless …show more content…
(Roosevelt passed the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act in 1906 after reading The Jungle, which highlighted the health violations and unsanitary actions in the meatpacking industry. The Pure Food and Drug Act forbade the manufacture, sale, and transportation of adulterated or mislabeled food and drugs. The Meat Inspection Act provided that federal inspectors visit meatpacking plants to ensure that they met minimum standards of sanitation.)
Conservation
Display:Roosevelt hugging trees, Roosevelt stroking a rock labeled ‘oil’, show people chopping down trees and roosevelt getting pissed, show Roosevelt signing bills and fencing national parks
(Roosevelt thought that the protection of the nation’s natural resources and nature in general was an extremely urgent matter. During his presidency, he used the Antiquities Act of 1906 to protect about 230 million acres of land. He also nominated Garfield Pinchot to the head of the Division of Forestry, who would later be fired by Taft.
*African American …show more content…
When New York representative Sereno Payne proposes the reduction of tariffs and the substitution of income taxes, Rhode Island Senator Nelson Aldrich disagrees and says that though the Republican party promised the revision of tariffs, they did not specify whether or not they would revise the tariffs upwards or downwards. Most republicans criticize the tariff, but Taft signs it anyway. Throughout Taft’s presidency he also vetoed multiple attempts by congress to lower