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**__Progressive Presidents__**

__Theodore Roosevelt__


//Theodore Roosevelt was the youngest President of the U.S. He took office at age 42 and was President from 1901-1909. He was a Republican. He was born in New York City on October 27, 1885. He started his reforms when he was president. His reforms tried to limit the power of great business corporations and to regulate the railroads. He did this to regulate the American people and to protect them from harmful food and drugs and to conserve the nation's natural resources. He also made it so that employers were legally responsible for injuries on the job.//

To get people to help and trust him he made the slogan "Square Deal" which wanted more supervision in the enforcement of laws and wanted everyone to be equal like all sides of a square. He also had his "trust-busting" activities that got people's attention and satisfied them with his party in office helping him lead the election in 1904. His Hepburn Act made it so the railroads had to surrender their business with steamship lines and coal companies. He set aside a large amount of land to prevent forest fires and to protect the natural resources in the area. //Roosevelt believed that the muckrakers were going to far with the writing in their articles. He also gave them their name, he compared them to someone stirring up a pot of mud. Because of what he did people work with safe working conditions and steady working hours today. The Antiquities Act made it so corporations could not drill into public land for railroads without a permit. He was the first president to focus on that.// //"Every reform has a lunatic fringe" Theodore Roosevelt. Which means every reform has crazy people behind it taking things to far.// __Bibliography__ "Roosevelt's Reforms". U.S. Department of State. N.D. Web. 9/21/11 [] "Theodore Roosevelt'. __World Book.__ 2005 ed. Print. "Muckrakers". United States History. N.D. Web. 9/21/11 [] "The Square Deal".LOC LC-DIG-stereo-1s01976 Web. 9/27/11.[]