Jacob Avendano
Mrs. Meyer
American History
27 April 2015
President Theodore Roosevelt Jr.
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was born on October 27th, 1958 in New York City. His father, Theodore Roosevelt, was of Dutch descent and his mother, Martha Bulloch, had been rumored to have had the lead role for Gone with the Wind ‘s character Scarlett O’Hara. Theodore grew up well fed and his parents had a financial stable job in importing plate-glass. “Teedie”, as his family members called him, was home schooled because of his illnesses and asthma. Teedie loved nature and his homeschooling allowed him to become closer. He was not just a brilliant mind, he also worked with his hands. He made his own physical routine that included boxing and weightlifting.
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Roosevelt soon made a comeback at his political career, first as a civil service commissioner, then as a New York City police commissioner and Assistant U.S. Navy Secretary.
Taking an interest in the Spanish-American War, Roosevelt left his government position to organize a volunteer cavalry known as the Rough Riders. He led in a charge up San Juan Hill in the Battle of San Juan Heights, in 1898. He was nominated for the Medal of Honor, then Roosevelt was elected governor of New York in 1898. At age 42, "Teddy" Roosevelt became the youngest man to become the United States president. During Roosevelt’s presidency he dedicated himself to breaking up monopolies under the Sherman Antitrust Act. His first term included, the "Square Deal" a program that called for reform of the work situations and hours, government regulation of industry and consumer protection (breaking up monopolies), with the his main focus on helping all classes of the American
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Came Roosevelt’s slogan when talking about foreign affairs “Speak softly and carry a big stick,” he heavily funded the U.S. Navy and created the "Great White Fleet." He also helped speed up completion of the Panama Canal by providing weapons and funds to the Panama revolution. In 1906, President Roosevelt was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in negotiating the end of the Russo-Japanese War.
In 1909, Teddy Roosevelt left office, he felt confident that he was leaving the nation in capable hands. Roosevelt's former Secretary of War William Howard Taft became the 27th president. After Roosevelt's presidency his next move was to travel to Africa to hunt on the safaris.
Roosevelt was unhappy with Taft’s weak enforcement of policies. This made Roosevelt want to make a third run at the presidency. However, Taft was still running on the Republican Party ticket. So Roosevelt went to the Progressive Party, and began campaigning for the 1912 election. While delivering a speech on the campaign trail in Milwaukee, Wisconsin Roosevelt was shot in the chest in an assassination attempt. He continued his speech for 90 minutes before seeing a doctor, later saying the incident was just a hazard of the profession. Roosevelt lost to Woodrow Wilson in the 1912 election, in close popular vote. He considered running in 1916, but differed in favor of Republican Party nominee Charles Evans
In his first year as President, TR took action on his calls for reform by suing the Northern Security Companies, then trust in the beef, coal and sugar industries. TR was also active in conservation- he set aside 150 million acres for national use, doubled the number of national parks and created sixteen national monuments. In 1902, TR moved to create the Panama Canal. He mediated a peace which brought an end to the Russo-Japanese War in 1905, and won the Nobel Peace Prize. When he heard of the death of his son, Quentin, in 1918, his spirit began to wane as he mourned, and then in the early morning of January 6, 1919, Roosevelt passed way.
Shortly after his return to New York, Roosevelt was elected governor. Later, Roosevelt was chosen as the running mate to William
He went to Groton at fourteen years old granted he gradated doing very well academically, he went his whole four years there as a lonely outsider. He entered Harvard in 1900 with a new outlook look on life and tried hard to make friends. Roosevelt found himself being attracted to his distant cousin Eleanor Roosevelt while attending Harvard. In 1905 he married Eleanor and they together had six children. Roosevelt attended Columbia Law School, although he did not meet all the requirements he passed his bar exams and started practicing law in New York. Later, Franklin had an affair with his wife’s social secretary Lucy Mercer. Eleanor discovered their relationship in 1918 by finding letters between the two of them. Roosevelt served eight years as Assistant Secretary of the Navy in 1910 in New York. He was also governor of New York in 1928 and again in 1930. Roosevelt was paralyzed in both legs due to him having polio in 1921 ceasing him to be able to enjoy his favorite activities. Roosevelt would try to disguise his paralysis in public by wearing heavy leg braces to help him walk. In 1932 he was nominated for president with his opponent being Herbert Hoover. Winning the election he promised that he would conduct the war against the depression. When winning presidency Roosevelt took on an immense amount of stress all at once. The world was in an incredible crisis due to the economy depression. Roosevelt
In 1904 Roosevelt was re-elected for a second term in office. In 1906, he passed the Pure Food and Drug act. This group of laws protected American consumers from harmful food, drugs, and cosmetics. Roosevelt took advantage of his presidential powers to bust into foreign affairs in Latin America and resolved the Russo- Japanese war. This valiant act earned him a Nobel Peace Prize.
In the same year, a earthquake hits San Francisco, and Theodore Roosevelt went there and started help the people over there. In 1905 Russo-Japanese War was started and Theodore was part of it, so in 1906 the war ended thanks to Theodore and his work, which lead him to be the first president, to get the Nobel Peace Prize. In 1912, Theodore Roosevelt receives a petition from Republican governors Republican governors to accept nomination for president. He started a new party called the Bull Moose party and he was nominated as presidential from him party. That was the first time, a third party candidate received lots of amount of vote but unfortunately Theodore loses the presidential election to Woodrow
Theodore Roosevelt being the youngest president at age 42 was a great leader. He had many accomplishments, even winning the Noble Peace Prize. The Russo-Japanese War was going on from 1904-05, he won the Noble Peace Prize by being the meditator of the peace between the two countries. TR was a progressive leader and a trustworthy president even nicknamed “Trust Buster.” His policies regarding trust and labor reform were part of what he called the “Square Deal.” TR was a conservationist and naturalist, he preserved natural habitats and wildlife; more than 125 million acres were set aside being protected by the public. Roosevelt combined an interest in military affairs and a belief in expansionism. He strengthened the U.S. army and expanded the navy to
Imperialists liked his policy, but there were still critics that disliked the policy and favored noninvolvement in global politics. The Square Deal came upon after Roosevelt’s first economic crisis. He demonstrated that he favored neither business or labor but insisted on a square deal for both. The strike of the anthracite coal miners was solved when he threatened to take control of the mines. The owners decided to compromise with Roosevelt and granted a 10 percent wage increase and a nine-hour workday. Voters liked the square deal so much the election of 1904 was won decisively by Roosevelt. The Panama Canal was another good thing he did while in office. Roosevelt had to get a treaty with Britain in order to begin to dig the canal without British involvement. In 1901 the Hay Pauncefote Treaty helped achieve just this. Roosevelt supported the revolt in Panama in 1903, because of this the new government of Panama signed the Hay Bunau Varilla Treaty of 1903. This treaty granted the US long-term control of a Canal Zone. The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine in 1904 was another application of the big-stick policy. Rather than let the Europeans intervene in Latin America which would be a violation of the Monroe Doctrine he said that the US would intervene whenever necessary. The US sent gunboats to Latin American countries that were delinquent in paying its debts. US sailors and
During this event, Roosevelt was currently in office as vice president, which after McKinley’s death he was called into office as president at age forty. During Roosevelt’s time in office, the environment was starting to change because there was not enough fuel to support everyone in the country and the miners were demanding a pay raise. Millions of dollars had been lost from coal receipts, incomes, and wages. During this time, the population in America was growing, throughout Roosevelt’s presidency, from seventy-seven million to about ninety million in eight years. As the population was increasing, the transportation was getting better and easier than before. Cars were just starting to become popular and trains, boats, and carriages were still a use of transportation to get around. Technology like telephones and electricity, were starting to form which was a great plus. Additionally, music about America was starting to evolve with songs like “You’re a Grand Old Flag”, “The Yankee Doodle Boy”, and even “Take Me Out to the Ballgame”. This is what happened outside political matters, but Theodore Roosevelt had important traits about him that will be memorable just like the achievements that occurred during the early
The rising youthful Republican lawmaker Theodore Roosevelt surprisingly turned into the 26th leader of the Assembled States in September 1901, after the death of William McKinley. Youthful and physically strong, he conveyed another vitality to the White House, and won a moment term individually justifies in 1904. Roosevelt stood up to the biting battle amongst administration and work head-on and wound up plainly known as the immense "trust buster" for his strenuous endeavors to separate modern blends under the Sherman Antitrust Act. He was likewise a committed preservationist, putting aside somewhere in the range of 200 million sections of land for national backwoods, stores and natural life shelters amid his administration. In the outside strategy field, Roosevelt won a Nobel Peace Prize for his transactions to end the Russo-Japanese War and initiated the start of development on the Panama Waterway. In the wake of going out and
Roosevelt’s presidency began with the chaos of McKinley’s assassination in 1901, when Roosevelt was 43 years old, and ended after his second term, achieved by his election to President in 1904. Although Roosevelt’s selection as McKinley’s Vice-President was more of a political pay-off, and the New York political machine, fearing an independent Roosevelt, was more than ready to say good-bye to Roosevelt as Governor, Roosevelt is acknowledged by most historians as having waged a vigorous and winning campaign, while his presidential candidate seemed content to stay behind.
He was the organizer of the “Rough Riders” which consisted mostly of cowboys. Theodore Roosevelt was named a National Hero after his charge on Kettle Hill in Cuba. Theodore Roosevelt was also significant for the many things he did as the 26th president of the United States. He was on the Republican Party or G.O.P, Grand Old Party. During his term, Teddy named the White House. It was previously known as the Executive Mansion. Theodore made a push for the conservation of Natural Resources. He made Crater Lake National Park, Oregon. Theodore Roosevelt also made the Chaco Culture National Historical Park in New Mexico. Theodore Roosevelt was William Mckinley’s vice president. In 1904 the Panama Canal was built because of Teddy’s dealings with the Central American government. In 1906, president Theodore Roosevelt became the first president ever to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. He won the Nobel Peace Prize for helping stop the Russo-Japanese War. Theodore Roosevelt was a great leader in the Spanish-American War and did a great number of things to change the country as president. Teddy is honored on Mount
Theodore Roosevelt became president on September 14, 1901 after President McKinley was assassinated on September 6, 1901. He was the youngest president the nation had ever had; he was 42 years old. He served through most of the first decade of the 1900’s. He was determined to build a canal across the Panama. The United States helped Panama gain its freedom from Colombia. The U.S. then made a treaty with Panama to gain the canal zone for $10 million including annual payments.
19). During his two terms, he achieved many domestic and foreign policy accomplishments. He developed the "Square Deal" in 1902, preserved millions of acres of land, dissolved 44 monopolistic corporations and regulated railroad rates, passed the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906. Also, he issued a corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, which became known as the "Roosevelt Corollary," allowing the U.S. to exercise international policy power to prevent stronger countries from using military force on weaker countries. He negotiated U.S. control of construction on the Panama Canal in 1903 and negotiated an end to the Russo-Japanese War, which won him the Novel Prize in 1906 (Inside
As time progressed, Roosevelt became bored with laboratory science. When he left Harvard, he studied law "but the law books … seemed to me to be against justice." Almost immediately, Roosevelt became interested in politics. He joined the Republican Party in 1880 when the party was treated like a "private corporation." Roosevelt had to muster his strength to "break into the organization."
During his life he followed after his distant cousin, Theodore Roosevelt, and entered into the political and economic scene. He won a Senate seat for the New York Senate in 1910 and was reelected again in 1912. During his second term as a senator he Woodrow Wilson named Roosevelt Assistant Secretary of the Navy, under Josephus Daniels. “Roosevelt worked to expand the Navy and founded the United States Navy Reserve.” (Roosevelt, Franklin Delano). He served in that position for seven years and it prepared him for what he would face in his later years. Contrary to his cousin, Roosevelt chose to be a Democrat. In this democratic position he was chosen to be the nominee for Vice President with James Cox in 1920 going against Harding. He was defeated by a long shot, but like other trials in his life he persevered. In 1928 Governor Alfred E. Smith arranged Roosevelt to get his governor position. Almost thirteen years later Franklin Roosevelt was named the 32nd president of the United States of America. After 63 years, on April 12, 1945 Franklin Delano Roosevelt left his full, content life.