Theodore RooseveltBy

Ryan Moran

Growing Up

• Grown up in New York.• He was born 1858.• Theodore had 4 siblings including him.• He watched Abrahams funeral.• Theodore's dad died from stomach cancer.• Then graduates Harvard.

Joins republicans

• Was elected to New York assembly.• He was the youngest man to be elected• He served from 1882-1884.• In 1883 he was minority leader.• Also joins the national guard.• Commissioned a second lieutenant in B

company of New York eight Regiment.

His family

• He marries Alice Hathaway• She gives birth to a child.• Also he remarries and has 2 more children.• He wrote some more books.

The rough rider

• Was a assistant secretary of the navy.• He was also leading advocate of the

liberation of Cuba.• Since Theodore lacked military

experiences Roosevelt told Leonard Wood be given command of the volunteer cavalry regiment.

• TR was made lieutenant colonel of the First U.S. Volunteer Cavalry soon popularly known as the Rough Riders.

Established National Forest service

• Wichita Forest, Oklahoma made first federal game preserve.

• Other federal game preserves established by TR are Grand Canyon 1908 Fire Island, Alaska 1909 and National Bison Range, Montana 1909.

• TR published Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter.

Bull moose party

• Also known as the Progressive party – formed in 1912

• It was a political party that was formed by a split in the Republican party.

• Theodore Roosevelt lost the Republican nomination

• It was called Bull Moose because TR said he was strong like a moose.

Great white fleet

• Was sent around the world by Theodore Roosevelt.

• The first circumnavigation of the globe by a national naval force.

• It consisted sixteen new battle ship of the Atlantic fleet.

• The ships were white.• the first circumnavigation of the globe by a

national naval force.

Home stead Act

• The distribution of Government lands had been an issue since the Revolutionary War

• With the secession of Southern states from the Union and therefore removal of the slavery issue, finally, in 1862, the Homestead Act was passed and signed into law

• The new law established a three-fold homestead acquisition process: filing an application, improving the land, and filing for deed of title.

Noble piece prize

• TR was the first American to get the reward.• TR received the reward while he was in

Europe.• He was going to decline to keep the money

reward.• TR got it for negotiated that led to the treaty

of Portsmouth for ending the war.

Theodore dies

• Before he dies he refuses to take governor of New York.

• In 1918 Roosevelt published a book called the great adventure.

• Theodore Roosevelt died in his sleep in January 6, 1919.

• He died from a blood clot.