Teddy Roosevelt

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Teddy Roosevelts Square Deal
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Terms Names

• Theodore Roosevelt
• Square Deal
• The Jungle
• Upton Sinclair
• Meat Inspection Act
• Pure Food and Drug Act
• conservation
• NAACP

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Overarching Question

• What did Roosevelt do to earn immortalization at
  Mount Rushmore? Most people can easily answer
  why the others figures were chosen.
  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.

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Young Teddy

• Childhood struggles
• Teddys illnesses

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Teenager Teddy

• Works hard in his fathers home gym
• Overcomes illnesses through the strength of his
  will

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TR The Athlete

• Harvard years
• Sculling and boxing

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Roosevelt at Harvard

• Roosevelts classroom
• education

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Early Adult Years

• 1881 Climbing the Matterhorn
• Death of mother and wife
• Retreat to the Badlands

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Life in the Badlands

• Learned lessons in the Badlands
• Took the snob out of me
• Love of the open land
• Shaped future policies

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TRs Life with Edith

• Marriage to Edith
• Tales of Teddy Roosevelt and his six children
  (only five in this picture because Quentin is not
  yet born)

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Roosevelts Rise

• Served three terms in the New York state assembly
• New York City police commissioner
• Assistant Secretary of the US Navy
• Started a volunteer calvary and fought in the
  battle at San Juan Hill in Cuba
• Governor of New York
• Vice President of the United States

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The Modern Presidency

• Became president in 1902
• Youngest president 42 years old
• Bully Pulpit
• Influence news media
• Shape legislation
• Square Deal
• Described the progressive reforms

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1902 Coal Strike

• 140,000 coal miners in PA went on strike
• 20 raise
• 9 hour work day
• Right to organize a union
• Mine operators refused to negotiate
• Coal supplies ran low

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• Roosevelts Options
• Settle the strike
• US Military will take over the mines
• Results
• 10 pay hike
• 9 hour day
• Cannot strike for 3 years
• Whenever a strike threatens public safety, the
  federal government can step in

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Trustbusting

• Trusts
• Companies that control all of a particular good
  or service
• Many trusts used unfair business practices
• good trusts had a conscience
• bad trusts abused the public
• Roosevelt filed 44 lawsuits under the Sherman
  Antitrust Act
• Was able to break up some of the trusts

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Railroad Regulation

• 1887 Interstate Commerce Act
• Prohibited railroad owners from dividing business
  in certain areas then sharing the profits
• 1903 Elkins Act
• Illegal for railroad officials / shippers to give
  or receive rebates for using their railroad
• Rates could not be changed WITHOUT letting the
  public know

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• 1906 The Hepburn Act
• Limited the distribution of free railroad passes
  (bribery)
• Gave the ICC power to set maximum railroad rates

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Protecting Health

• The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
• Identified unsanitary conditions in meat packing
  plants
• 1906 Meat Inspection Act
• Strict cleanliness for meatpackers
• Created the program of federal meat inspection

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Pure Food and Drug Act

• 1906
• Stopped the sale of contaminated foods or
  medicines
• Called for truth in labeling
• Popular childrens medicine often contained
  opium, cocaine, or alcohol
• This act did not ban harmful products outright,
  but allowed consumers to be educated

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Conservation Natural Resources

• Federal government paid little attention to the
  nations natural resources
• Farmers
• Cut down forests and plowed up prairies
• Ranchers
• Allowed cattle to overgraze
• Coal companies
• Cluttered the land with spoil dumps
• Lumber companies
• Didnt replace the trees they cut down

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John Muir

• Naturalist / Writer
• Persuaded the president to set aside 148 million
  acres of forest reserves
• Roosevelt also set aside 1.5 million acres of
  water power sites and 80 million acres of land
  to be explored for mineral and water resources

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Gifford Pinchot

• A professional conservationist
• Head of the US Forest Service
• Conserve forest and grazing lands
• Keep large tracts of federal land exempt from
  private sale

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Conservation

• Some wilderness areas would be preserved while
  others would be developed for the common good
• National Reclamation Act of 1902
• (Newlands Act)
• funded irrigation to states in the Midwest

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Roosevelt and Civil Rights

• Wasnt a supporter of civil rights
• Did support individual African Americans
• Appointed an African American as head of a South
  Carolina custom house
• Did not bow to the demands to dismiss a black
  postmistress in Mississippi
• Invited Booker T. Washington to the White House

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NAACP

• National Association for the Advancement of
  Colored People
• Formed in 1909
• Aimed for equality among the races

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Origin of Teddy Bear

• The famous bear hunt in 1902
• Berrymans political cartoon

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Presidential Firsts

• First to invite an African American to a White
  House dinner
• First to have Secret Service protection
• First to win Nobel Peace Prize for his work
  towards ending the Russo-Japanese War
• First to take trip outside the United States

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More Presidential Firsts

• First to give an open invitation to the press
• First 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

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Roosevelt Hand Picks Taft

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

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Roosevelt Loses to Wilson

• The Progressive Bull Moose loses in 1912
• Life goes on
• Theodore Roosevelt at the wedding of his
  daughter Ethel to Richard Derby.

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An Older Theodore Roosevelt

• Agony over the death of Quentin in World War I
• "Grandfather" Roosevelt hugs baby granddaughter
  Edith Roosevelt Derby, 1918.

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Roosevelts Death

• "The old lion is dead."
• Photo shows the burial of Theodore Roosevelt,
  January 1919 in Youngs Memorial Cemetery, Oyster
  Bay, NY.
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Works Cited

• "Theodore Roosevelt Collection." 1998.
• Harvard College Library. 4 Dec 2006
• lthttp//hcl.harvard.edu/houghton/dep artment
  /roosevelt.html. gt.