HIS-2204 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Federal Meat Inspection Act, Theodore Roosevelt, Sherman Antitrust Act
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Roosevelt: vp under mckinley, become president in 1902 after mckinley is assassinated. Pro-business, pro-annexation, pro-military expansion and intervention especially in latin america. Revitalizes sherman antitrust act, selectively targets monopolies and trusts he sees as bad. 1906: passage of pure food and drug act, meat inspection act after reading. Homer plessy: considered black, deliberately challenged louisiana"s segregated streetcar law. Catalyst: homer plessy"s challenge of segregated streetcars in new orleans. Result: supreme court upholds right of states to require separate but equal facilities for blacks and whites. Booker t. washington, creator of the tuskegee institute in alabama. Provided medical and educational services to women and children.
