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Quietly grab a textbook

Quietly grab a textbook. Read pages 266-273 (stop after reading the first section at the top of 273) and in your notebooks please outline ALL of the accomplishments that Teddy Roosevelt Achieved while President. 1901-1909 Republican. Teddy Roosevelt. and the Progressive Movement.

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Quietly grab a textbook

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  1. Quietly grab a textbook Read pages 266-273 (stop after reading the first section at the top of 273) and in your notebooks please outline ALL of the accomplishments that Teddy Roosevelt Achieved while President

  2. 1901-1909 Republican Teddy Roosevelt and the Progressive Movement

  3. A young Teddy watching Lincoln’s funeral ceremony

  4. Youngest President ever • Took over after McKinley was shot • First Progressive President • Manager of the People • Puts the U.S. on the global scale • Square Deal • “TRUSTBUSTING” • “Speak softly, carry a big stick” • At 42, the youngest President ever. • A man of privilege – supports the common man. • The first “modern president.”

  5. Teddy’s Square Deal • The three C’s • Consumer • FDA and Meat Inspection Act • Workers Compensation • Limit workers hours • Conservation a) Forest Reserve Act-150 million acres under control of the Federal Government 3) Corruption a Trust Buster- “Good Trusts vs. Bad Trusts” b) The Anthracite Coal Strike-Teddy demands that owners sit down and settle with workers (BIG WIN FOR WORKERS!!!)

  6. TEDDY ROOSEVELT “In life, as in football, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard” “The Steward of the people”

  7. Teddy Roosevelt and the Progressive Movement "Trustbuster"

  8. Regulating Business • Trust busting—”Bad Trusts” vs. “Good Trusts” • Break up the bad, regulate the good • Example: Standrd Oil and JP Morgans trusts were bad, U.S. Steel was good • Railroad—Northern Securities Company vs. US, Supreme Court rules that Morgan had to break up his monopolies • Oil—Roosevelt ordered his attorney general to break up Standard Oil • This was due in to large part from Ida Tarbell’s muckraker book The History of Standard Oil

  9. TR the “Trustbuster” U.S. Supreme Court dissolved the Northern Securities Company (monopoly of western railroads) Jack and the Wall Street Giants

  10. TR the “Trustbuster” What personal characteristics are associated with TR?

  11. Labor Conditions • Coal Strike—Mine owners refused to negotiate with striking workers, Roosevelt threatened to send in the Army to take over the mines. The owners then agreed to arbitration which resulted in shorter hours and higher wages • Employers Liability Act of 1906—corporations had to provide accident insurance

  12. Teddy Roosevelt and the Progressive Movement CONSERVATION

  13. First President to take actions toward conservation of the environment (Newlands Reclamation Act of 1902)

  14. TR and Conservation *established National Park Service "There can be nothing in the world more beautiful than the Yosemite, the groves of the giant sequoias and redwoods, the Canyon of the Colorado, the Canyon of the Yellowstone, the Three Tetons; and our people should see to it that they are preserved for their children and their children's children forever, with their majestic beauty all unmarred.” Theodore Roosevelt

  15. “C”onservationsim • Forest Reserve Act • 150 million acres that could not be sold • New lands Reclamation act used from the sale of land for irrigation of the west • Created the National Conservation Commission (Gifford Pinchet)

  16. Teddy Roosevelt and the Progressive Movement RACE RELATIONS

  17. This is TR during the Spanish American War. Teddy Roosevelt Foreign Policy What the nickname of his platoon?

  18. Roosevelt Corollary • Expanded the Monroe Doctrine • “If a nation in the Western Hemisphere is guilty of behaving wrongly then the US can step in as an international police power.”

  19. Big Stick Diplomacy • The US would use peaceful methods whenever possible but would also use military force if necessary • Examples • Great White Fleet • Nicaragua • Haiti • Dominican Republic

  20. The Panama Crisis • Following the Spanish-American War, Secretary of State John Hay negotiates with Colombia Ambassador Thomas Herrán • In return for a Canal Zone six miles wide, the US would pay $10 million in cash and a rental fee of $250,000 a year • 1903- The US Senate ratifies the Hay-Herrán Treaty, but the Colombian Senate holds out for $25 million in cash • Panamanians become restless at the treaty's rejection, and a revolutionary named Manuel Amador hatches a plot to cause an uprising • Meets with Roosevelt and Hay, and receives US military support for the revolution •  With an army of 500 Panamanians, Amador stages a revolt • The US navy blocks the sea lanes, preventing Colombian troops from crushing the rebellion •  Panama wins its independence from Colombia

  21. Panama Canal • 1901 US decides they need a canal so NAVY and merchant ships can cross from the Atlantic to the Pacific • Columbia (owned Panama) at the time refused the US encourage Panamanians to revolt, thus giving us the canal

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