theodore roosevelt
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Theodore RooseveltTRANSCRIPT
Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt
• Born 1858, right before the Civil War
• Called “Teedie”• Chronic asthma –
turned to exercise and boxing
• No formal education
• Attended Harvard University (22nd out of 177)
• Columbia Law School -dropped out
• New York Assembly
• 1880 – married
• 1880 – married
• Daughter born Feb 12, 1884
• Two days later, his mother died.
• Two hours later, his wife died.
• Daughter born Feb 12, 1884
• Two days later, his mother died.
• Two hours later, his wife died.
• Daughter born Feb 12, 1884
• Two days later, his mother died.
• Two hours later, his wife died.
• Daughter born Feb 12, 1884
• Two days later, his mother died.
• Two hours later, his wife died.
• Escaped to the Dakotas• Wilderness survival• His own Indian policy• Worked on writing (18
books)• Returns to New York
reinvigorated
• Remarries, has five more children
• Runs for mayor of NY City (loses)
• Appointed to the U.S. Civil Service Commission
• Becomes NY City Police Commissioner
• Assistant Secretary of the Navy
• Spanish American War
• Rough Riders
• Rough Riders take San Juan Hill
• Governor of NY State• Vice-President• President
President Roosevelt
• Domestic Policy: “Square Deal”– conservation of natural resources – control of corporations– consumer protection
President Roosevelt
• “Square Deal”• Trust buster• United Mine Workers strike- helps workers get
pay raise• Pure Food and Drug Act• First president to ride in an automobile• “The White House”
President Roosevelt
• Foreign policy – “Speak softly and carry a big stick”– allows the US to “exercise international policy
power.”
President Roosevelt
• Foreign policy – “Speak softly and carry a big stick”– allows the US to “exercise international policy
power.”• Panama Canal• “Great White Fleet”• Negotiated the end of the Russo-Japanese
War (Nobel Peace Prize)
• “Retires” after second term• African Safari– Killed or trapped about 11,400 animals– Smithsonian
• Decides to run for President again in 1912• Forms the Progressive Party, nicknamed the
“Bull Moose Party”– “I’m as fit as a Bull Moose.”
• "Ladies and gentlemen, I don't know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot; but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose.”
• World War I – tried to revive the Rough Riders, denied
• Died January 6, 1919
• "Death had to take him sleeping, for if Roosevelt had been awake, there would have been a fight.“
– Thomas R. Marshall
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