Teddy Roosevelt’s Square Deal
1. What is TR’s Square deal?
2. Describe what TR was like as a person and as a president.
3. What do the lions stand for?
4. Why are all the lions coming out of a door
labeled “Wall St.”?
5. What do you think the cartoonist thinks about
trustbusting? Cite details from the cartoon that
support your interpretation.
6. Why do you think Teddy Roosevelt was so effective in regulating many progressive reforms as
president? What is it about him that made these changes possible?
Identify TR’s Square Deal
Problem
(Describe the problem)
a. 1902 Coal strike
b. Northern Securities Company
monopoly
c. Unsafe meat processing
d. Exploitation of the environment
e. Racial injustice
Solution
(How was that problem solved? Be specific)