Chapter 19

Section 2

The Progressive Presidents

Young TeddyChildhood

struggles Teddy had

illnesses as a child, asthma, seen as a weakling.

Teenager Teddy Works hard in his

father’s home gym Overcomes

illnesses through the strength of his will

TR: The AthleteHarvard yearsSculling and

boxing

Roosevelt at Harvard Roosevelt’s

“classroom” Education very

important to Roosevelt, more true with him than many of his classmates

Early Adult Years 1881 – Climbing the

Matterhorn

Death of mother and wife

Retreat to the Badlands

Life in the Badlands Learned lessons in

the Badlands “Took the snob out of

me” Love of the open land Shaped future

policies

TR’s 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)

Early Career

President of the NYC Board of Police Commissioners

Already a “mover and a shaker” and a friend of the common man

Served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy before the Spanish-American War.

Rough Riders Roosevelt as part of

this volunteer regiment in Puerto Rico during the Spanish-American War

Victory at San Juan Hill

Won a Medal of Honor

Roosevelt comes home in 1898 Teddy receives a hero’s welcome when he

returns home and is soon elected Governor of New York

Boss Platt doesn’t much care for Roosevelt because he is trying to clean up politics in the state

Boss Platt helps to get Roosevelt on the ballot for the next election in hopes of getting TR out of New York

McKinley/Roosevelt Ticket 1900 Roosevelt’s

progressive campaign style

Powerful speeches

Fame from Spanish-American War

Roosevelt Becomes President Assassination of

McKinley 1901 makes Roosevelt the President!

A “visible president”, and very vocal too.

Origin of “Teddy Bear” The famous

bear hunt in 1902

Berryman’s political cartoon

Early Presidential Years Family picture at

Sagamore Hill in Oyster Bay on Long Island, New York

Stories of Roosevelt’s enjoyment of his children

President Roosevelt in the White House

1903

The Bully PulpitHow things

“ought to be”A bully pulpit

speech in Evanston, Illinois

The Square Deal1904

A fair shake for all, or the same opportunity to all for success

1. Protection of America’s wilderness 1905

2. Pure Food and Drug Act of 19063. Meat Inspection Act of 1906

Roosevelt as Conservationist U.S. Forest Service

1905 National Parks,

National Forests, game and bird preserves, and other federal reservations made

230,000,000 acres

President Theodore Roosevelt at Yosemite in 1903.

Roosevelt and National Parks"Leave it as it is. You

can not improve on it. The ages have been at work on it, and man can only mar it."

Attack on Laissez Faire

Work to curb the power of trusts "within reasonable limits"

Roosevelt the “Trust Buster” Not out to break up all trusts, just the

ones that rip people off or use unfair business practices to limit competition

Examples of Roosevelt’s Trustbusting

1902 Northern Securities was a trust that was limiting competition in the railroad industry so Roosevelt used the Sherman Antitrust act to break it up by 1904

Suits against Standard Oil, the American Tobacco Company, and any other that limited free market economy

Sherman Antitrust act used here in the way it was initially intended! (Remember in section 1 where the courts used it to crush labor union protesters?)

Big Stick Diplomacy

Roosevelt’s favorite African proverb, "Speak softly and carry a big stick and you will go far"

Roosevelt lived by these words in many ways.

What do you think this means?

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

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

Roosevelt Hand Picks Taft Theodore

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

William Howard Taft Not as energetic as Roosevelt, quiet and

cautious Actually broke up more trusts than TR Successes : graduated income tax, safety rules

in mines, 8 hour work day for government workers, controls on child labor

However, raised tariffs and weak on Conservation and this angered many Progressives

Election of 1912 What party did they for

or stay with? Progressives: Progressive

or Bull Moose Party Conservatives: Republican

Party

Election of 1912

Election of 1912 Who did they run for

president? Progressives: TR Republicans: Taft Democratic: Wilson Socialist: Eugene Debs

Election of 1912 What was their candidates position on big

business? Progressives supported government

action to supervise big business, but did not oppose all big business monopolies

Republicans favored business but worked to break up trusts

Democrats supported small business and free market competition; thought that all big business monopolies were evil

Socialists felt that big business was evil and that the solution involved doing away with capitalism and distributing wealth more equally among the people

Works Cited

"Theodore Roosevelt Collection." 1998.

Harvard College Library. 4 Dec 2006

<http://hcl.harvard.edu/houghton/department /roosevelt.html. >.