Theodore Roosevelt: A Life and Presidency

1. Theodore Roosevelt: A Life and Presidency

2. The many faces of Teddy Roosevelt…

3. T.R. was the first president to… • Fly in an airplane. • Submerge in a submarine. • Own a car. • Have a telephone. • Travel outside the U.S. as president. • Invite an African-American to the White House. • Win a Nobel Prize.

4. "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far"

5. "It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out howthe strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

6. Early life: • New York, wealthy, republican. • Suffered from terrible asthma. • Average boxer. • Harvard. (lawyer) • Badlands, South Dakota. • NY state rep, NY Police commissioner, NY state Governor.

8. Theodore Roosevelt Sr. Greatheart”

9. Teddy, 18 Brother Elliot Sister Corinne Future 2nd wife, Edith Carow

10. Martha “Mittie” Roosevelt

11. Teddy at Harvard; member of rowing team

12. Teddy in the Badlands, SD

13. T.R.’s Animals: • Black Bear cub, Jonathan Edwards. • A badger, Josiah • Dogs Jack and Skip • Blue Macaw, Eli • Ponies, Algonquin and General Grant • Kitten, Tom Quartz • Garden snake, Emily Spinach • Horses, Little Texas, Rain in the Face, and Bliestein.

14. Presidency: • McKinley assassinated in Buffalo, NY 1901.

15. Progressive policies… • “Square Deal” -set out to reform many of America’s business practices. -“trustbusting” broke up unfair company trusts ex: Northern Securities Company

16. The “Trustbuster”

17. Progressive policies cont’d… • Elkins Act (1903) -railroads no longer give refunds to favored customers • Meat Inspection Act (1906) -government inspection of meat shipped cross-state. • Pure Food and Drug Act -outlawed manufacture, sale, or transportation of food and drugs containing harmful ingredients. -also, required ingredients to be listed on labels.

18. The miracle drug!

20. Progressive policies cont’d… • Conservation measures… -Gifford Pinchot -150 million acres of forest reserves. -Newlands Reclamation Act (1902) -irrigation used to make damaged lands usable. -National Conservation commission.

21. The Teddy Bear

22. Progressivism in action: SQUARE DEAL

23. Spanish American War: • Volunteered to fight in Cuba. • Brought along his “Rough Riders.” -frat boys, cowboys, athletes, etc… • Helped win the Battles of Kettle Hill and San Juan Hill. • “War hero status”

25. T.R.’s Foreign Policy: • The U.SA. Needs to be an imperial power. • The position of American President should be more powerful. • The Western Hemisphere belongs to the U.S.A.

26. 1.Roosevelt Corollary: • Extension of Monroe Doctrine. • “police power” to U.S.A. in W. Hemisphere. • Aimed to protect Latin American countries’ independence. (Cuba, Haiti, Dom. Rep, Nicaragua)

27. Chronic wrongdoing…may in America, as elsewhere, ultimately require intervention by some civilized nation, and in the W. Hemisphere the adherence of the United States to the Monroe Doctrine may force the U.S.A., however reluctantly…to the exercise of an international police power.

28. “international police power”

29. 2. The Great White Fleet • T.R. exercised American military power with a naval world tour. • 4 Naval squadrons. • 14 months. • 43,000 sailors.

30. Onward, Christian soldiers, marching as to war,With the cross of Jesus going on before.

31. Christ, the royal Master, leads against the foe;Forward into battle see His banners go!

32. Onward then, ye people, join our happy throng,Blend with ours your voices in the triumph song.

33. Glory, laud, and honor unto Christ the King,This through countless ages men and angels sing.

34. Onward Christian Soldiers!

35. Great white fleet’s tour…

36. 3. Panama Canal • T.R. wants to unite lands of foreign interest. • Offers to but Canal Zone from Columbia -rejected; proceeds to assist Panamanian rebellion against Columbia. • Hay-Bunau Varilla Treaty: gives U.S. 10 mi. wide Canal Zone.

37. “Bullying” Columbia

38. Problems w/ the canal: • Mosquitos = yellow fever • and malaria. • Landslides • Humidity • Impoverished/polluted • Panama

39. You are going to have the fever, Yellow Eyes! In about ten days from now Iron bands will clamp your brow; Your tongue resembles curdled cream, A rusty streak the center seam; Your mouth will taste of untold things, With claws and horns and fins and wings, Your head will weigh a ton or more, And forty gales within it roar! -James Stanley Gilbert

41. Making the dirt fly!

42. The big stick in the Caribbean Sea

43. Facts about the Panama Canal: • Aug. 15, 1914 first passage. • 43,000 workers and 10 years. • A boat traveling from NY to San Francisco saves 7,872 miles by using the canal. • Highest toll ever paid: 1995- $141,349.97 (cruise ship) • Lowest toll ever paid: 1928- $0.36 (swimmer) • Crossing the canal takes avg. 8-10 hrs. • Fastest transit through the canal: 2 hrs 41 min. (Hydrofoil) • 2/3 of ships using the canal are header to the U.S.

44. Other interesting side notes: • Independent Order of Panamanian Kangaroos. • Dirt from canal could build a Great Wall like China’s from San Fran. to NY. • Canal dirt could build 63 Pyramids. • 1 city block-sized tower of canal dirt would go up 19 miles (100,000 ft.). • Modern tech. and advancements would not have made the process any easier or shorter. • 1 lock upright would be among the top 5 tallest buildings in the world.

45. 4. Treaty of Portsmouth: • Portsmouth New Hampshire. • Teddy wins Nobel Peace Prize. • Settles Russo-Japanese War • 1905. U.S. had assisted Japan in modernization (Matthew Perry)