1. Theodore Roosevelt and Progressivism
... would not be taking a "laissez-faire" approach to big business like previous presidents had done. Roosevelt's "Square Deal" political stance came to be during the Cole Miner's Strike of 1902. Workers were not being paid enough to work in the anthracite coal mines of Pennsylvania so they went on strike to have their needs met. Winter as fast approaching and ... succumb to arbitration. Also, he prevented a heat shortage crisis from occurring. Thousands of citizens could have lost their lives that winter had it not been for the president's intervention. Roosevelt called the settlement of t...
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