HISTORY FINAL

• was suspicious of taft
• looked into court cases and rulings and all were for big business

Roosevelt and Taft were friends at beggining of term but were enemies afterward

• Payne Tarrif was proposed by house
• conservatives persude taft to pass this law
• taft loses popularity
• causes split between conservative and progressive in republican party
• (Ballinger-Pinchot 1910)

• proposed by taft
• promised to lower tarif
• passed by house but at senate level senator Aldridge added 847 ammendments

Speaker of House Roosevelts presidency

• progressives- insurgents
• conservatives- old guard

upon arriving in america roosevelt was invited to dinner at white house but rejected it

• Siad taft was sabotaging his policies
• called for "new nationalism" (larger federal gov)
• apalled conservative republicans

• those whom he supported were elected
• democrats gained control of house
• old guard is defeated

• created national progressive republican league
• Lafolette scheduled to give speech in Philadelphia
• became ill but still gav speech, halfway through went on rant insulting listeners then passed out

• owened 80% of anthrocite coal mines
• john mitchell-leader of coal worker union called for stike
• may 1902-strike coal production ceases baher refusd to negotiate
• summer 1902- baher used small chidren as mine workers and accidents happened

• coal prices skyrocket
• railroads, steamboats and manufactureres had to shut down
• Roosevelt invites Baher and mitchell to meet and he would arbitrate
• baher refuses
• angers roosevelt

• roosevelt asks government of PA for federal troops
• U.S. army sent into mines to dig coal
• this caused baher to negotiate
• work day was reduced and pay was increased

when running for re-e;ection he brought this up and a "square deal" became his standing point

• roosevelt (R)
• alton Parker (D)
• Parker judge from NY
• runningmate- Henry davis multimillion dollar coal mine owner
• got nomination due to hopes of monetary contributions which never came
• Largest republican landslide in history

passd pure food and drug act, meat inspection act and heparin act

• increased size and authority of interstate commerce commision
• single most important legislation passed during roosevlts years
• still in effect today