Before
Theodore Roosevelt became president, the federal government had typically sided with big
businesses against the people. For example, the government had typically used its power to
break strikes rather than to protect strikers. Roosevelt promised that he would give people a
square deal in which he did not favor any particular group.
Perhaps the
most commonly cited instance of Roosevelt providing a square deal came in the anthracite coal
strike of 1902. The coal strike caused a national shortage of...
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