1. Bull Moose, Progressive, Environmentalist, Cowboy, Bully Pulpit?
Teddy Roosevelt
Bull Moose, Progressive, Environmentalist, Cowboy, Bully Pulpit?

2. Background Born to a wealthy family
Former Assistant Secretary of the Navy
Led Rough Riders
Former Governor of New York state

3. Governor to VP
Roosevelt was a Progressive reformer Governor who went after political party bosses.
The party bosses could not get rid of the popular Governor…so they encouraged him to become Vice President

4. Vice President to President
President McKinley was assassinated by anarchist Leon Czolgosz
Roosevelt becomes the youngest President to take office at 42 years old
Used Bully Pulpit-powerful platform to publicize issues and seek support for policies

5. Square Deal
Roosevelt promised every American a Square Deal…”see that each is given a square deal, because he is entitled to no more and should receive no less.”
Needs of workers, business and consumers should be balanced.

6. Election of 1904
Roosevelt promoted his policies of limiting power of trusts/monopolies, promoting public health and improving working conditions.
Won easily over Judge Alton Parker of NY

7. More Progressive policies
Regulated Railroads
Championed National Parks
Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act passed under Roosevelt
Promoted land conservation
Supported US intervention in Panama (bought rights to canal property and equipment from France) and build the Panama Canal linking Atlantic and Pacific

9. Roosevelt Political Future
After elected to two terms he decided not to run in 1908…supporting William Howard Taft of Ohio
Taft would win in 1908 to become President

10. Election of 1912
Theodore Roosevelt
William Howard Taft
Woodrow Wilson

11. Taft, Wilson and Roosevelt
 1908 – Roosevelt supported William Howard Taft for the presidency. Taft won easily.
* Taft, however, turned out to be very unpopular with Progressives.

12. This Harper’s Weekly cartoon lampoons Roosevelt’s desire for the spotlight. His eldest daughter, Alice, is usually attributed with the observation, “My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding, and the baby at every christening.”

13. In 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt declared his intent to negotiate a “square deal” (i.e., a fair settlement) for labor, management, and the American public. In this Harper’s Weekly cartoon, Roosevelt is depicted as a mugger preparing to steal the Republican nomination from President William Howard Taft by hitting his rival, who appears in elegant evening dress, with the “square deal” of a brick.

14. Anti-Third Term Principle, is a straightforward criticism of Roosevelt's reversal of his promise to adhere to the two-term principle established by George Washington. (Roosevelt later countered that he only promised to refuse three consecutive terms.)

15. Candidates - 1912 Presidential Election
Republican Party
Progressive Party (Bull Moose Party)
Democratic Party ÷ =
William Howard Taft
Theodore Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
Roosevelt Forms Bull Moose Party (2:29)

16. Presidential Election of 1912

17. * Woodrow Wilson won the election.

18. Wilson uses tariff, currency and anti-trust laws to prime the pump and get the economy working in a 1913 political cartoon.

19. President Woodrow Wilson
Policy / Act Purpose
New Freedom
Wilson’s idea to break up trusts into smaller companies
Decreased tariffs
Increased competition with foreign goods

20. President Woodrow Wilson
Policy / Act Purpose
Imposed a graduated income tax
Raised money for the government lost by the lower tariffs
Federal Reserve Act (1913)
Regulated banking

21. President Woodrow Wilson
Policy / Act Purpose
Federal Trade Commission (1914)
Stopped businesses from using unfair business practices
Clayton Antitrust Act (1914)
Barred antitrust laws from being used against unions
A Brief History of the Birth of the Federal Trade Commission (3:02)

22. Roosevelt survives assassin
“TR” survived a brush with death in He was shot in the chest by a would be assassin, he proceeded to give a 90-minute speech. He told the stunned crowd: “It takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose.”