Theodore Roosevelt should be considered one of America’s greatest presidents. Theodore Roosevelt set a standard for how presidents should treat their time in office. He cared about every single American citizen and the beautiful historical land that covers this great country. American citizens loved him too, so much that they elected him for a second term in the election of 1904. He spent a lot of time in politics, and a lot of time enjoying the beautiful land that he protected. Theodore Roosevelt was even a war hero. If that doesn't say patriotism, then I don't know what does. He should be a model for everyone.
On October 27, 1858, a boy by the name of Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was born. When he was a young boy Theodore Roosevelt had poor health
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and he had trouble with asthma. His asthma was so bad that he would suffer from nighttime asthma attacks. In spite of all his trouble, he was still extremely energetic and curious. He loved nature and all the creatures that dwell in it. When Roosevelt was young his nickname was Teedie, later on, people began to call him Teddy. This nickname sticks with him for the rest of his life. Teddy Roosevelt spent a lot of time in politics. According to History.com, he entered the great world of politics at the age of 23 when he was elected to the New York State Assembly. He spent two terms on the New York State Assembly. After that, he took a break from politics due to the death of his wife and mother. Two years later he tried to return to politics as the mayor of New York City, but he lost the election. Teddy Roosevelt went through many different positions such as president of New York City Board of Police Commissioners and assistant secretary of the United States Navy due to his affiliation with the Republican Party. He left politics to become a colonel in the Spanish-American War. He led the “Rough Riders” into the Battle of San Juan in Cuba. When he came back to America he was treated like a war hero. According to History, when Teddy Roosevelt returned to America the Republican Party loved him due to his status as a war hero. The Republican Party helped Teddy Roosevelt become the governor of New York. To keep Teddy Roosevelt from serving a second term as governor of New York, the Republican party named Teddy Roosevelt as William Mckinley’s running mate in the election of 1900. According to the White House, Theodore Roosevelt became president due to the assassination of William Mckinley. Mckinley was shot and killed by an anarchist named Leon Czolgosz. Teddy Roosevelt’s time in office could be considered some of America’s greatest years. As described on History.com, His political beliefs could be described as progressive. Teddy Roosevelt believed that the government should act as a mediator between conflicting forces. Teddy Roosevelt made a promise to the American people that he would break up all the trusts. He did just that with his Square Deal. He broke an extremely large railroad combination which was formed by James Hill, J.P. Morgan, and E.H. Harriman. As described in chapter eleven of the book Theodore Roosevelt by Louis Auchincloss, he even exposed the Sugar Trust. The Sugar Trust was a sugar company known as The American Sugar Refining Company who would under weigh their sugar then pay the United States Customs less money. They controlled 98% of all sugar in the United States. Teddy Roosevelt did not just care about regulating the wealthy, he cared about helping the working class citizens too. Teddy Roosevelt acted as a mediator between coal mines and the coal mining company in Pennsylvania. The coal miners went on strike to protest for better wages. Teddy Roosevelt stepped in and negotiated with the mining company to get better wages for the miners. It was no secret that Teddy Roosevelt loved nature. He grew up studying creatures that he could find around his house in New York. As he grew older his love for nature grew too. According to History.com, after the deaths of his mother and wife Teddy Roosevelt spent two years on a ranch in the badlands of North Dakota. There he had cattle and enjoyed spending his free time hunting game on his ranch. He worked as a frontier sheriff also, he even captured an outlaw. Just before Teddy Roosevelt was about to enter a bar he heard gunshots. The shots were from a drunken cowboy, who then pointed the gun at Teddy Roosevelt. Teddy Roosevelt laughed which distracted the cowboy just enough for Teddy Roosevelt to knock him out. There is a reason that Teddy Roosevelt is known as the conservationist president.
Teddy Roosevelt founded the Boone and Crockett Club in 1887. The Boone and Crockett Club was a pioneer in conservation. Teddy Roosevelt used the Boone and Crockett Club as his way of preserving game and land before he had the authority to do it. He received the authority to preserve nature when he became president in 1901. According to the National Park Services, Teddy Roosevelt set aside approximately 230 million acres of land as public land. National Forests make up 150 million acres of that land. Teddy Roosevelt also created the United States Forests Service, which manages all the national forests and national grasslands in the …show more content…
United States. They manage 25% of all national land. Even after Teddy Roosevelt’s presidency, he went on multiple big game hunting trips to Africa. Even after he left office monuments such as Mount Rushmore have been built in his honor. Teddy Roosevelt wanted to conserve nature so that future generations can enjoy its beauty. According to chapter eleven of Louis Auchincloss’ book Theodore Roosevelt, Teddy Roosevelt passed the Pure Food and Drug Act in 1906. This act was passed in response to Upton Sinclair’s book The Jungle. The book showed how filthy the meatpacking industry was. Meatpacking plants would leave raw meat out in the open where flies could lay eggs on it. The meatpacking plants would sell rotten meat to unknowing customers. Many companies would mix their products with addictive drugs like opium, cocaine, and heroin. Cannabis was also on the list of addictive or harmful ingredients that needed to be put on the label. The Pure Food and Drug Act also require that all the ingredients in a product need to be labeled. This led to the creation of the Food and Drug Administration According to Louis Auchincloss’ book Theodore Roosevelt, The Panic of 1907 happened due to the failure of the Knickerbocker Trust Company.
That caused many other banks to fail and almost caused a financial disaster. Many financial leaders met with J.P. Morgan to discuss how they could avoid the disaster. They came to the conclusion if U.S. Steel exchanged some of its stock for Tennessee Coal & Iron stock that the Moore and Schley bank could be saved. This helped avoid the financial disaster. The only problem is that that would be considered a trust. To keep from being considered a trust U.S. Steel requested that the government offer assurance. Theodore Roosevelt granted their request, but the problem with that is that most people were not happy with Theodore Roosevelt’s actions that allowed them to expand their monopoly. Theodore Roosevelt was heavily criticized for his actions to stop the financial disaster. If Theodore Roosevelt had not allowed this monopoly then there might have been a serious financial
depression. Theodore Roosevelt strongly believed in the use of the big stick policy for foreign relations. Essentially the big stick policy means that a country possesses a lot of military power, but never needs to use their military power due to the fact that their enemies are too afraid to attack. Theodore Roosevelt used the big stick policy during the Panamanian revolution of 1903. According to History.com’s article Panama Declares Independence, the United States and Columbia were supposed to sign a treaty allowing the United States to build a canal in the Isthmus of Panama, but Columbia refused the treaty. When the treaty fell through Theodore Roosevelt allowed the Panamanian Revolution to begin. The United States built railroads in Colombia, but once the revolution began the United States cut off all railroads to Panama. This kept Colombian troops from reaching Panama. Which allowed the Panamanian Revolution to succeed. The United States warship Tennessee arrived near Columbia shortly after which discouraged Colombian troops from marching to Panama. Theodore Roosevelt used the Navy to scare Columbia into not attacking the revolutionaries in Panama. Once Panama gained their independence they allowed the United States to build the Panama Canal. The Panama Canal connected the Atlantic and the Pacific Ocean and allowed the U.S. Navy to easily get from one coast to the other. Theodore Roosevelt received a lot of criticism for his role in the Panamanian Revolution and the building of the Panama Canal. Even after the criticism Theodore Roosevelt still considered the Panama Canal to be one of his greatest accomplishments as president. The Panama Canal greatly helped the expansion of the U.S. Navy.
One of his accomplishments was when he went down in of the United States’ first submarines to show officers and men who were enlisted that he was not going to ask them to try something that he was not willing to try himself. Other successes for President T. Roosevelt was his involvement in the Alaskan-Canadian border dispute and his involvement in the Algeciras Conference – which avoided a war. Roosevelt’s main accomplishments during his second term were the Hepburn Bill, the Pure Food and Drug Act, The Panic of 1907, and creating the first wildlife refuge. Toward the end of his second term, Teddy started thinking about who would be the best fit for the next president. He had it between William Howard Taft and Elihu Root, but in the end thought that Taft would be the best bet and America agreed with him when Taft was up against William Jennings Bryan in the
Daniel Oduntan Linda Graham HIST 1302 30 October 2017 Theodore Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt was born on October 27, 1858 in New York City, New York in the United States. Theodore was the second child of four children in a wealthy, upper-class family. Theodore’s father was a businessman and philanthropist. Theodore’s mother was also born into an affluent family.
He experienced life as a rancher which allowed him to relate to the working class citizens of America. He always kept the working classes best interest in mind and was fair to everyone. He was a war hero. He put his foot down and spoke out against political corruption. When it came to foreign and domestic affairs Teddy Roosevelt spoke softly but carried a big stick. He was prepared to use force when necessary but often used persuasion to avoid conflict and keep tranquility in the world. He didn’t let Congress push him around like how he threatened Congress to pass the Meat Inspection and Pure Food and Drug acts. He showed strength and interest in the future by dismantling monopolies, building the Panama Canal, and by preserving land. Teddy Roosevelt kept the average working class American’s best interest in mind and through his toughness he gave America a square
Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt was an author, naturalist, outdoorsman, and politician. He was born in October of 1858 in New York City. Unfortunately for him, in his younger years he was plagued with medical problems, mostly severe asthma, which had a very harsh impact on his body and personality. This included extreme asthma attacks that had made him feel as if he was being smothered to death, even worse was that the doctors had no readily available cure for him. However, he pushed thr...
"I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.” I, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, created many government programs in an attempt to end the Great Depression. I was born January 30th, 1882 in Hyde Park, NY. In my childhood I grew up on a farm near the Hudson River. My fifth cousin was Teddy Roosevelt. My journey to politics began when I became the New York state senator in 1911. I also became the governor of New York in 1929 before running for president. That same year the stock market would crash and the Great Depression would begin.
Assuming the Presidency at the depth of the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt helped the American people regain faith in themselves. He brought hope as he promised prompt, vigorous action, and asserted in his Inaugural Address, "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself." Despite an attack of poliomyelitis, which paralyzed his legs in 1921, he was a charismatic optimist whose confidence helped sustain the American people during the strains of economic crisis and world war.
Theodore Roosevelt was a man uniquely fitted to the role that he played in American
After the assassination of President McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt inherited a growing empire when he took office in 1901. The U.S. had annexed Hawaii in 1898 and Spanish-American War granted the U.S. control of the Philippines. It also led the U.S. to establish a protectorate over Cuba and grant territorial status for Puerto Rico. By taking on the Philippine Islands as an American colony after the Spanish-American War he had ended the U.S.'s isolation from international politics. Theodore Roosevelt believed that nations should pursue a strenuous life and do their part to maintain peace and order. It was also a belief that civilized nations had the duty of modernizing the barbarous ones. He also pushed for a bigger army and navy and by the end of his presidency he had built the U.S. Navy into a major force at sea.
Theodore Roosevelt JR. was born on October 27, 1858, in New York to Theodore Roosevelt SR. and Martha Bulloch Roosevelt. Theodore Roosevelt JR. was a very sick boy, he suffered from asthmatic attacks which caused the frightening sensation of drowning (Grondahl 2015 7-8). These sensations and attacks caused Theodore a lot of obstacles in his childhood. By attending Harvard College in 1875 when he was just seventeen years old, Theodore was able to push past all his setbacks from his childhood (Grondahl 2015 37). After attending Harvard and graduating in 1880
After nearly a decade of optimism and prosperity, the United States took a turn for the worse on October 29, 1929 the day the stock market crashed, better known as Black Tuesday and the official beginning of the Great Depression. The downfall of the economy during the presidency of Herbert Hoover led to much comparison when his successor, Franklin D. Roosevelt, took office. Although both presidents had their share of negative feedback, it is evident that Hoover’s inaction towards the crises and Roosevelt’s later eccentric methods to simulate the economy would place FDR in the positive limelight of fixing the nation in one of its worst times.
President Franklin Roosevelt was one of the greatest presidents in the history of the United States. He created economic stability when the United States was suffering through the Great Depression. In his first three months of office, known as the Hundred Days, Roosevelt took immediate action to help the struggling nation.1 "In a period of massive unemployment, a collapsed stock market, thousands of banks closing for lack of liquidity, and agricultural prices fallen below the cost of production," Roosevelt passed a series of relief measures.2 These relief measures, known as the New Deal, provided help for individuals and businesses to prevent bankruptcy. Also, the New Deal is responsible for social security, welfare, and national parks. A further reason why Roosevelt is considered a great president is because he was a good role model for being determined in his...
Social problems of the 1900s included conservation of wildlife and forest, the creation national monuments, immigration, and child labor. President Roosevelt firmly believed that America’s forest should be preserved and cared for (Kelley 66). President Roosevelt once said, "We have fallen heirs to the most glorious heritage a people ever received, and each one must do his part if we wish to show that the nation is worthy of its good fortune." ("Theodore Roosevelt and Conservation") Meaning we should care for nature and wildlife, because it is a gift to us. He still hunted and was often put down for it (Kelley 68). One time he refused to shoot an elderly bear and later a stuffed bear toy was developed and named after him as the “Teddy Bear.” (Kelley 68). The National Conservation Commission was formed as a result of a conservation conference in May 1908(Kelley 69). President Roosevelt is also responsible for creating 18 national monuments, one being the Grand Canyon, which was declared a national monument on January 11, 1908 ("Miller Center"). America also saw a record number of immigrants from 1900-1910. Around 8,796,000 people immigrated to America in search of “the American Dream.” (Woog 32). ...
Theodore Roosevelt was born on October 27, 1858, in New York City, to Theodore Roosevelt Sr. and Martha Roosevelt (Unites States. National Park Service. History: Theodore Roosevelt: Life). As a child, Teddy was burdened with an “acute” asthma, his eyesight was horrible, having to wear thick glasses his whole life, and his physical stature was small and frail (Teddy Roosevelt). His father advised Teddy to dedicate himself to physical fitness. Heeding his father's advice, Teddy soon began to develop a muscular frame and his asthma and frailness bothered him less and less (Teddy Roosevelt). “Teedie” was also a childhood nickname he had (Theodore Roosevelt Hi...
...ause he was widely loved by basically the whole of the U.S. people. If only more people could realize how President Franklin D. Roosevelt revolutionized the country and led the U.S. through its hardest times, then people would see Roosevelt is and always will be the greatest president America has ever seen.
Theodore Roosevelt was born on October 27, 1858 in New York City, New York. He was always as hard worker but after his father died during his second year at Harvard, which only inspired him to work even harder and continue on to a law degree at Columbia University. He was soon married to Alice Hathaway Lee, a woman from Massachusetts, and began to enter the realm of politics. Roosevelt was rising as a young new political star until one day, February 14, 1884, his wife, Alice died of Bright’s disease, and his mother died of typhoid. This saddened Roosevelt greatly, he moved to the Dakota Territory for two years and becoming a rancher and cattle driver then returning to politics in a big way when he returned. Although he lost the race for the mayor of New York City, he soon started an elite group known as the Roughriders becoming a war hero in the battle of and becoming the Governor of New York. He soon remarried to Edith Carow in 1886, with which he had several children. Teddy was elected as President William McKinley’s Vice President and after McKinley’s re-election and assassination in 1901, Roosevelt became the youngest President in the nations history. Many of the changes he made in his presidency are still clear to see today in everyday life. One of his first big initiatives was called the “Square Deal.” This deal helped to end the strikes going on around...