1. Quietly grab a textbook
Read pages (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. and the Progressive Movement
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Teddy Roosevelt
and the Progressive Movement

3. A young Teddy watching Lincoln’s funeral ceremony

4. At 42, the 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 Conservation
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. “The Steward of the people”
TEDDY ROOSEVELT
“In life, as in football, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard”
“The Steward of the people”

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Teddy Roosevelt
and the Progressive Movement
"Trustbuster"

9. 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

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

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

12. 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

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Teddy Roosevelt
and the Progressive Movement
CONSERVATION

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

15. 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

16. “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)

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Teddy Roosevelt
and the Progressive Movement
RACE RELATIONS

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

19. 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.”

20. 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

21. 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  

24. 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