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Theodore Roosevelt Research Paper

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Patrick Bryant
11/23/15
Final Paper
Professor Galgano

With the assassination of President William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, not quite 43, became the 26th and youngest President in the Nation's history (1901-1909). He brought new excitement and power to the office, vigorously leading Congress and the American public toward progressive reforms and a strong foreign policy. Theodore Roosevelt was born on October 27, 1858, in a four-story brownstone in Manhattan, New York. Teddy was the second of four children and was an older brother to Elliot and had an older sister Corinne. He was also the younger brother to Anna. He had a disturbing childhood due to his poor health conditions. He had terrible asthma which caused multiple nighttime attacks. …show more content…

The population of the United States had almost doubled from 1870 to 1900 because immigrants came to the United States to work in the country's growing factories. As the United States became increasingly urban and industrial, it acquired many of the attributes common to industrial nations: overcrowded cities, poor working conditions, great economic disparity, and the political dominance of big business. One of Roosevelt’s main beliefs was that the government had the right to regulate big business to protect the welfare of society. Although Congress had passed the Sherman Antitrust Act in 1890, former Presidents had only used it sparingly. So when the Department of Justice filed suit in early 1902 against the Northern Securities Company, it sent shockwaves through the business community. The suit alarmed the business community, which had hoped that Roosevelt would follow precedent and maintain a "hands off" approach to the market economy. It was then that Roosevelt would his ‘hands off” approach in the economy. At issue was the claim that the Northern Securities Company; a giant railroad combination created by a syndicate of wealthy industrialists and financiers …show more content…

In 1903 the Panama government signed a treaty with the U.S and construction of the Panama Canal began. Ricard, a scholar stated this about Roosevelt. “The most striking evolution in the twenty-first century historiography of Theodore Roosevelt is the switch from a partial arraignment of the imperialist to a quasi-unanimous celebration of the master diplomatist.... [Regarding British relations these studies] have underlined cogently Roosevelt's exceptional statesmanship in the construction of the nascent twentieth-century "special relationship". ...The twenty-sixth president's reputation as a brilliant diplomatist and realpolitician has undeniably reached new heights in the twenty-first century...yet, his Philippine policy still prompts

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