Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt

Overarching QuestionWhat did Roosevelt do to earn immortalization at

Mount Rushmore? So……………..after studying about the life and

work of Theodore Roosevelt, YOU decide why YOU THINK he was placed among such prestigious company

(George Washington - the father of our country, Thomas Jefferson - author of the Declaration of Independence, and Abraham Lincoln - the “Great Emancipator” who united the country).

Young TeddyBorn in NYC

Son of a merchant

Well-traveled – Middle East and Europe

Severe asthma

• Homeschooled

Teenager TeddyWorked hard in his

father’s home gymLearned to

overcome illnesses through strength of his will

TR: The AthleteEntered Harvard in

1876

Sculling and boxing

Married Alice Hathaway Lee – daughter of wealthy NE family

Early Adult Years1881 – Climbed the

Matterhorn on honeymoon

February 12, 1884 – birth of daughter, Alice

February 14, 1884 - Death of mother and wife

Retreat to the Badlands

Life in the Badlands Lived life of cowboy Learned lessons in the

Badlands– “Took the snob out of

me” Love of the open land Shaped future policies

– Land conservation

TR’s Life with Edith Marriage to Edith

Kermit Carow – hometown sweetheart

Tales of Teddy Roosevelt and his six children (Quentin is not yet born)

– White House Gang

Early Career

President of the NYC Board of Police Commissioners

Created one of first police academies

Prowled streets at night

Reduced corruption

Rough Riders Resigned as Secretary

of Navy during Spanish-American War– Roosevelt started

volunteer regiment Victory at San Juan Hill Congressional Medal of

Honor 103 years later

McKinley/Roosevelt Ticket Gov. of NYC 1898

NYC Republican Party bosses wanted pesky TR out of state

Roosevelt’s progressive campaign style v. McKinley's backporch

Roosevelt Becomes President

Assassination of McKinley in 1901

Youngest president ever at 42 years

Origin of “Teddy Bear”

Famous bear hunt in 1902

"Teddy Bears" named in his honor

The Bully Pulpit How things “ought to

be” Could connect with

everybody Beginning of modern

day president A bully pulpit speech

in Evanston, Illinois

Roosevelt as Conservationist National Reclamation

Act 1902 – funds for dams, reservoirs, canals out west

Preserved national parks, national forests

– 230,000,000 acres

President Theodore Roosevelt at Yosemite in 1903.

Hetch Hetchy ControversyGrassy meadow in

Yosemite

Wanted to build dam after 1906 San Fran earthquake

John Muir brought to referendum

TR left it to U.S. Forest Service head Gifford Pinchot

Panama Canal: Roosevelt’s Most Famous Foreign Policy Initiative

Here TR inspects the canal construction in Panama in 1906.

Panama Canal critical to Navy's success.

French originally attempted to build canal.

U.S. supported a Panamanian revolt from Colombia – U.S. secured a treaty with Panama to develop canal.

Big Stick Diplomacy

Roosevelt Corollary – extended Monroe Doctrine (1823) – U.S. will intervene if South American nations need help

A favorite proverb, "Speak softly and carry a big stick. . . . "

What do you think this means?

The Square Deal A fair shake for all – educating public to

eliminate corporate abuses

Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906

– Lied about opium, cocaine, alcohol in children's medicine

Meat Inspection Act of 1906

– Upton Sinclair

– Government inspected factories

Attack on Laissez Faire

Work to curb the power of trusts "within reasonable limits"

Roosevelt the “Trust Buster” Created Department of Commerce and Labor Filed against monopolies under Sherman Anti-

trust Act

– Difficult to slow mergers

Elkins Act and Hepburn RR ActElkins Act 1903 – illegal for

railroad officials from giving and taking rebates -

Had to notify public of rate changes

Hepburn RR Regulations Act 1906 -

Regulation run by gov't, not private sector

TR Saves FootballAmerican Football Rules Committee

formed

18 deaths and 159 serious injuries in 1904

Players locked arms in mass formations and used their helmetless heads as battering rams. Gang tackles routinely buried ball carriers underneath a ton and a half of tangled humanity.

“In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard; don’t foul and don’t shirk, but hit the line hard!” TR

Civil Rights

Closed station when Mississippi did not accept black postmistress

Booker T. Washington dined at White House

1902 Coal Strike140,000 miners in PA

struck demanding 20% raise, 9-hr work day, right to organize

Roosevelt intervened – because public welfare in question

Sent in federal troops

Miners – "woodheaded owners"

Presidential Firsts

First to have Secret Service protection• First to win Nobel Peace Prize for his work

towards ending the Russo-Japanese War– 1905 – Portsmouth Peace Treaty

First to take trip outside the United States

Panic of 1907Overproduction led to

banking and stock market crashes

J.P. Morgan pooled assets to stabilize, forbade Wall Street to close

TR slaughtering bears in LA

Came at a time when 25% senators were millionaires

More Presidential FirstsFirst to give an open invitation to the

pressFirst to be submerged in a

submarine, to own a car, to have a telephone in his home, and to be allowed to operate the light switches in the White House

Roosevelt Hand Picks TaftTheodore

Roosevelt with incoming President William Howard Taft on Taft's inauguration day in 1909

Roosevelt Loses to Wilson “Progressive Bull

Moose” loses in 1912 Life goes on Theodore Roosevelt

at the wedding of his daughter Ethel to Richard Derby.

1912 Presidential Election

Taft in a NutshellPayne-Aldrich Tariff –

went back on word to lower tariffs

Supported:

16th Amendment – federal income tax

17th Amendment – popular election of senators

Angered people by replacing Secretary of Interior James R. Garfield with Richard A. Ballinger

Tried to invalidate TR's removal of 1 million reserved acres

An Older Theodore Roosevelt Agony over the death

of Quentin in World War I

"Grandfather" Roosevelt hugs baby granddaughter Edith Roosevelt Derby, 1918.

Roosevelt’s Death"The old lion is

dead." Photo shows the

burial of Theodore Roosevelt, January 1919 in Young’s Memorial Cemetery, Oyster Bay, NY.

 

Works Cited

"Theodore Roosevelt Collection." 1998.

Harvard College Library. 4 Dec 2006

<http://hcl.harvard.edu/houghton/department /roosevelt.html. >.