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The Sqaure Deal

  • Bully pulpit: Roosevelt wanted to spread his thoughts and solve problems.
  • The Square Deal was President Theodore Roosevelt's domestic program formed upon three basic ideas: conservation of natural resources, control of corporations, and consumer protection. These three demands are often referred to as the "three C's" of Roosevelt's Square Deal.

Foreign policy

  • "Big Stick" Diplomacy-to seize unprecedented executive power in handling international affairs.
  • Panama Canal-so that ships could travel from ocean to ocean without having to go all the way around South America.
  • Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine-was used to justify future U.S. military interventions, not only in Latin American countries but throughout the world.

Trust Busting

Political rise

  • Teddy was the vice president of the United States for President McKinley until he was assassinated.
  • Served two terms
  • Roosevelt was president from 1901-1909.
  • He was apart of the republican party.
  • Former President Roosevelt did not come from a wealthy family as the presidents before him.
  • Forced the great railroad combination in the Northwest to break apart.
  • Roosevelt saw himself as a representative of farmers, white collars,laborers and etc.
  • Congress passed the Sherman Anti-trust act in 1890 which maintained economic liberty, and to eliminate restraints on trade and competition.

Conservation

  • Political, environmental and a social movement that protected natural resources including: animal, fungus and plant species. Also their homes.
  • Roosevelt created five national parks one is the Theodore Roosevelt National Park located in the Badlands of North Dakota.

Background #1

Sources

  • http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/tr-environment/
  • http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h917.html
  • http://www.sparknotes.com/biography/troosevelt/section9.rhtml
  • http://www.ushistory.org/us/43b.asp

Food Protection

Background #2

  • Born:Oct.27,1858-Jan.6,1919
  • At the age of 12 years old Tedddy's father helped him develop at physical routine which included: weightlifting and boxing.
  • Went to Havard College
  • A personal challenge was when Teddy struggled with asthma as a young boy. Another is when his father died as Theodore Roosevelt was in his second year of college.
  • The "Rough Riders" were a group of men from law enforcement, mining, cowboys and also Native Americans. They best remembered for the charge on San Juan Hill on July,1 1898.
  • Theodore Roosevelt was also an American author,explorer, historian and politian.
  • The purpose was to protect the public against adulteration of food and from products identified as healthful without scientific support.
  • Creation of the Food and Drug Administration, which was entrusted with the responsibility of testing all foods and drugs destined for human consumption.
  • The requirement for prescriptions from licensed physicians before a patient could purchase certain drugs.
  • The requirement of label warnings on habit-forming drugs

The Biography of Theodore Roosevelt

By: Denzel Williams

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