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I don't think any President ever enjoyed himself
more than I did. Moreover, I don't think any
ex-President ever enjoyed himself more."...
"Success - the real success - does not depend
upon the position you hold, but upon how you
carry yourself in that position." University of
Cambridge, England, May 26, 1910
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The Progressive Era Dr. Mary Kelley Summer Term
2004
Presented by Janek Liebetruth

Twenty-Sixth President1901-1909
President Theodore Roosevelt

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Structure

• Historical Background
• Childhood and Youth in New York City
• Early Political Life
• The Nationalist
• New York Govenor
• His Presidency 1901-1909
• The Time in between
• Roosevelt The Progressive Candidate
• Retirement

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Historical Background
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1858
1876
Bell
1877
1879
electricity
1882
Light Bulb
1889
Jane Adams
1896
Plessy vs Ferg.
1908
1909
1910
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1901
1903
1905
1906
1909
Model T
Robert Peary
1912
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2. Childhood and Youth in New York City
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Theodore Roosevelt
1870
October 27th, 1858 in New York
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• born to Theodore Roosevelt
• Sen. and Martha (by birth Bulloch)
• wealthy and Socially
• prominent New York family

• blessed with a quick mind but
• not blessed with a strong body

• life-threatening asthma attacks
• Private Tutors
• began to build up his
• body

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1862
1875
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1876 1880 Harvard University History and
Literature gradduates from Phi Beta Kappa
1880 October 27th , Marriage with Alice
Hathaway Lee Columbia University's School
of Law Joins the Republican Party Club
of New York
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1876
1877
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3. Early Political Life
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Dec. 1876
1881 Elected youngest State
Representative in the history of New YorK
(re-elected 1882 and 1883 ) 1884 appointed
Chairman of the Committee on Cities, whose
efforts resulted in vital changes in the
Charter of New York City
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1884 February 12th birth of Alice
Roosevelt Lee February 14 his wife dies
of Brights disease His mother dies of
typhoid fever outspoken and active opponent
of "wealthy criminal class" and of
political corruption cut short by the
presidential Campaign of James G. Blaine
and President Arthur supported a
reformer, Senator George F. Edmunds
Blaine won, he did not support him received no
political position, carreer was over so far
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4. The Naturalist
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• 1884
• moved to the Dakota Badlands to
• become a rancher hoping the
• desolate landscape would help him
• overcome his intense grief
• gained everyone's respect by
• thrashing each offender with both
• his sharp wit or steel fists
• the men he met there were to later
• join the famous Rough Riders
• 1886
• Roosevelt returnes to New York
• Republican candidate for Mayor of
• New York City, but defeated
• December 2 nd
• Marriage with Edith Kermit Carow

1885
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1881
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5. New York Govenor
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• 1888
• appointment to the U.S. Civil
• Service Commission by
• reforming the U.S. Civil Service are
• still felt today
• 1895
• Commissioner of the New York City
• Police Board
• establishment of the first Police
• Academy in the U.S., the use of
• bicycle patrols, and the
• establishment of civil service
• reforms for recruitment and
• promotion of officers
• 1897
• Assistant Secretary of the Navy

1895
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• 1898
• May 6th
• TR resigned his post and began
• assemblying the U.S. First
• Volunteer Cavalry, more famously
• known as the Rough Riders.
• collection of Eastern
• intellectuals, Western
• roughnecks, athletes, writers,
• ranchhands, Native Americans,
• Hispanics
• Roosevelt was a strong
• nationalist. He believed fervently
• that not only was the United
• States on the brink of becoming a
• world power, but that it had a
• responsibility and a duty to

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1899
U.S. to become a world power it needed to be able
to transport its military quickly between the
Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans United States
would have to secure the Caribbean, and that in
turn meant war with Spain. Spain's empire in
Latin America was just a sliver of what it had
once been, but it still controlled Cuba and
Puerto Rico 1899 New York Govenor utility
franchise taxes. At that time public service
corporations did not pay taxes on their franchises
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8. The Presidency
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1902
1900 Vice-President along with President
William McKinley 1901 September 13th
President McKinley is assassinated
September 14th Theodore Roosevelt is sworn
in as the nation's 26th President at the
Wilcox Mansion near Buffalo, New York
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1903
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Domestic Policy
Square Deal A. Conservation The areas
preserved and activities for conservation
include 15o National Forests 51 Federal Bird
Reservations 4 National Game Preserves 5 National
Parks 18 National Monuments 24 Reclamation
Projects
"...The conservation of natural resources is the
fundamental problem. Unless we solve that
problem it will avail us little to solve all
others." Address to the Deep Waterway
Convention, Memphis, Tennessee, October 4, 1907
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B. Control of cooperations 1903 Elkins Act
1906 Hepburn Act for regulation
of the railroads 1908 The Federal Employers
Liability Act Congress to protect
and compensate railroaders
injured on the job. 1903
creation of the Department of
Commerce and the Bureau of
Corporations C. Consumer Protection 1906
Meat Expection Act Pure Food And
Drugs Act
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Foreign Policy
1903 November 13th Recognition of the
Republic of Panama after Panama's secession
from Colombia. November 18th
Clayton-Bulwer Treaty signed with Panama for
building of Panama Canal, completed in 1914.
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1904 Reelected President over Democrat
Alton B. Parker December 6, "Roosevelt
Corollary" to Monroe Doctrine in annual
message to Congress.
1905 Portsmouth Treaty signed ending
Russo-Japanese War
1906 Algeciras Conference opened mediated a
Dispute between France and Germany over
Morocco 1907 Root-Takahira Agreement of 1907,
Japan and the United States promised not to
seek territorial gains in the Pacific and to
honor the Open Door Policy in China
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7. The Time in Between
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1908 Not run for another term his own
successor - William H. Taft 1909 One year
trip to Africa collectes animal specimens for
museums and wrote articles 1910 Receives
Nobel Price while in Europe
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8. The Progressive Candidate
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1912 contest Taft for the Republican
nomination Republican party split off to begin
the Progressive Party and made Roosevelt their
nominee New Nationalism Incl. Social legislation
and regulate Trusts
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9. Retirement
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1913 Roosevelt-Rondon South American
Expedition of 1913-1914, sponsored by the
National Museum of History of New York, the
National Geographic Society, and the
governments of Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay
mapped what came to be known as Rio
Teodoro 1914 the rising conflict in Europe
in the assassination of the Austrian Archduke
Franz Ferdinand volunteered to raise a
regiment to fight in Europe, but his efforts
were refused by President Willson
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Died January 6th, 1919 in Oyster Bay, New York
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First President to ride in an airplane ...
to invite an African-American(Booker T.
Washington) to the White House ... to dive in a
submarine ... to have a telephone in his home
... to ride in an automobile ... to travel
outside the U.S. while in office ... to receive
the first electoral vote cast by a woman delegate
(Helen B. Scott in 1912)
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Sources
Chessman, G. wallace Theodore Roosevelt and
Politics of Power, Little Brown and Company,
1969. Morris, Edmund The Rise of Theodore
Roosevelt Modern Liberary, 2001. Morris,
Edmund Theodore Rex, Modern Liberary,
2002. Roosevelt, Theodore A Strenuous Life
London, 1902. Sauttner, Udo Geschichte der
Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika, Kröner,
1998. http//www.theodore-roosevelt.com, May
2004. http//www.theodoreroosevelt.org, June
2004. http//www.ushistory.net, June
2004. http//memory.loc.gov/ammem/trfhtml/trfhome.
html, July 2004. http//www.whitehouse.gov/history
/presidents/tr26.html, May 2004