Essay on AP Theodore Rosevelt Outline and Evaluation

- New corp. (U.S. Steel) first billion-dollar company & also largest enterprise in the world & control 3/5 of nation’s steel business.

The laborers demanded a 20%, greater protection and rights, and have the work day reduced to nine hours instead of ten. The stubbornness of the corporation would ultimately be their own defeat. The strike was becoming a substantial burden on the United States due to the diminishing amount of coal being produced. Due to this, Roosevelt decided to intervene. It is true that Roosevelt threatened the mine owners when no negotiation was met, but this would be the first time a president sided with a union over corporations. This is quite a revolutionary action for unions, because Roosevelt heard the people’s voice and answered. The owners agreed, and the workers got the terms the union had been fighting for. Roosevelt is known to be overly expressive, so he also convinced Congress to pass the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906, and the Meat Inspection Act. Congress was cautious in passing these acts due to the amount of influence the meat industry had, but Roosevelt was the man that convinced Congress. These acts protect

Lincoln 's first time to be elected to office came, when he ran unsuccessfully for the Illinois state legislature. Two years later, he ran again and it was a victory for Lincoln, becoming a part of the Whig party in the General Assembly for the next eight years. All when his was happening, Lincoln 's law career began to take off and he was beginning to start being noticed. He was admitted to the bar in 1837, and moved to Springfield, the new state capital, later that

     In the next ten years of his life he made a lot of progress in his political career. In 1889 president Benjamin Harrison gave him the title of ³ Civil Service Commissioner.² In 1895 he resigned that job. He then became the president of new York City¹s ³ Board of Police Commissioners.² After two years of that he went back to Washington, this time as an assistant secretary of the navy. This political experience

from 1835 to 1837 and from 1839 to 1843, when he was elected to the state senate. In 1843,

In the Russian- Japanese war, Roosevelt helped make peace between the two countries and won the nobel peace prize for this. The construction of the Panama Canal was his first act as presidency and was used for trading. The square deal was Roosevelt's famous slogan that helped him win the election in 1904. These are some of the many things that made Roosevelt’s presidency the best. However, some may still believe that Roosevelt’s “Bull-Moose” and Adventurer years from 1910-1919 were the most superior because Roosevelt ran for president again, but he was unsuccessful in the

Throughout his life, he was a leading scholar who in 1916 earned his Ph.D. in Semitic Languages from John Hopkins University. After a short time in the Army, in 191, he became a Thayer Fellow at ASOP, he served as a director from 1921-1929. Then in 1929 he became a professor at John Hopkins University from

Since Parker never became president, we know that his bid was not successful. He was easily defeated by 336 to 140 electoral-college votes by the incumbent president. Even a popular vote would not have spurred Parker to the presidency as Roosevelt garnered 7,628,834 to Parker’s 5,084,491 votes (Post Standard, July 11, 1984 Rip-Roaring Keynoter). Parker did not even carry his birth place

that college. Then in 1854 he started teaching at that college. When he was 26 he went to teach at

that was needed was to wait until the laws that had already been passed had time to make an impact. The Republican Party supported him first for Lieutenant Governor in l9l5 and again in 1918 when he was elected Governor of Massachusetts.

When Abraham Lincoln was 23, with little education and no real qualifications, he ran for his first Illinois political office. He failed in the campaign for the state legislature, but two years later gained a seat as a member of the Whig party. In 1856 Lincoln joined a newly formed republican party. Two year after joining the republican party Lincoln ran for the United States senate, making a name for himself in those famous debates. In 1834 he wins election for the first term in house of

It was in the early 1830s that Lincoln got the itch to run for public office. Initially, he ran for and failed to obtain a seat in the Illinois state legislature. Undeterred, Lincoln became the Post Master of New Salem and decided to run for the State Assembly again in 1834. Lincoln ran as a Whig, the precursor to the Republican Party, and was elected to the Illinois State Assembly. Lincoln would stay in the Illinois House for four terms and would use his burgeoning popularity to start his true

Born in Hodgenville, Kentucky, Lincoln grew up on the western frontier in Kentucky and Indiana. Largely self-educated, he became a lawyer in Illinois, a Whig Party leader, and a member of the Illinois House of Representatives, where he served from 1834 to 1846. Elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1846, Lincoln promoted rapid modernization of the economy through banks, tariffs, and railroads. Because he had originally agreed not to run for a second term in Congress, and because his opposition to the Mexican–American War was unpopular among Illinois voters, Lincoln returned to Springfield and resumed his successful law practice. Reentering politics in 1854, he became a leader in building the new Republican Party, which had a statewide majority in Illinois. In 1858, while taking part in a series of highly publicized debates with his opponent and rival, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, Lincoln spoke out against the expansion of slavery, but lost the U.S. Senate race to Douglas.

conditions, and union recognition. The Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902 ended with the appointment by Roosevelt of an

He was born on July 1st, 1646, his father was a professor and his mother was the daughter of a wealthy lawyer. Unfortunately his father died when he was very little, although his father had a time to teach him about history before he died in a school in which Gottfried attended called Nicolai school. He was a very smart guy, at the age of eight he already knew some Latin and when he turned twelve he mastered Latin so he started learning Greek. He wanted to learn about logic so started the efforts to learn about it. He attended the university of Leipzig as a law student when he was only fifteen years old, his firsts years where dedicated to learn philosophy and he was thought by Jakob Tho0masius. He had the chance to deal with the modern thinkers.