Theodore Roosevelt's Intellectualism

Throughout history, there have been myriad of presidents that have made an impact on the country. The most important is Theodore Roosevelt. As a boy, Roosevelt was born into a wealthy family, however he had frail health. By no means did that mean that he was less of an intellectual. In fact, his intellectualism led to his great achievements we know today. These great achievements were, the square deal, his foreign policy and the FDA. In Theodore Roosevelt's first term of presidency, he created the “square deal” it expressed his views of labor, parenthood and Christian ethics. In 1902 there was a coal strike and it cut off all heating for homes schools, schools and hospitals. Theodore set up some tactics to stop the coal miners from the
He noted that the right way to have foreign policy is “ speak softly and carry a big stick” this was his big stick diplomacy, in 1903 Roosevelt helped Panama break apart from Columbia, they gave Roosevelt the Panama zone, then they created the Panama Canal, the canal connects the Atlantic ocean and the pacific ocean, the panama Canal is important because it permits shippers of commercial goods. Roosevelt showed
In 1906 pure food and drug act was passed after a book called “the jungle” by Upton Sinclair was published. The Jungle documented the terrible conditions of meat packaging industry, then Roosevelt invited the author to his white house. Roosevelt promised to use federal regulations to clean up the sickening conditions of meat packing plants, but Roosevelt wasn't the only one that was sickened by what the author Upton Sinclair wrote in his novel, there was a large range of public complaint, Roosevelt responded by selecting a government commission, he pushed for FDA to be passed by congress and the bill termed for stricter, sanitary meat packers, then government programs to bear inspections. Industries were required to label canned goods, now known as the nutrition label, and it required the date the food was processed, this was called the pure food and drug act. Huge variety of items sold in drugstores weren't labeled, so nobody knew what was inside of it, or what it's made of. A Lot of children's medicine contained cocaine, Heroin and alcohol. The FDA act required a list of ingredients on the medicine, but it did not ban harmful products Then in 1906 “law forbade interstate and foreign commerce in adulterated and disbanded food and drugs. Offending products could be seized and condemned; offending persons could be fined and jailed. Drugs had