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3. CHARACTER QUOTES EXAMPLE: “Believe you can and you're halfway there.” Optimistic Believes in human progress

5. PRELIMINARY PERSONALITY PROFILE #1 – “Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.” QUOTES #1#2#3#4 #5#6#7#8 #2 – “In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.” #3 – “Generally peace tells for righteousness; but if there is conflict between the two, then our faithfulness is due first to the cause of righteousness.” #4 – “Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” He was the type of person who __________________. His words showed that he favored ______________________. He seemed to be _____________________________________. #5 – “Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.” #6 – “The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.” #7 – “Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.” #8 – “Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.”

6. THEODORE ROOSEVELT BIG STICKS AND THE PANAMA CANAL

7. “SPEAK SOFTLY AND CARRY A BIG STICK; YOU WILL GO FAR.” PRESIDENT THEODORE ROOSEVELT

8. McKinley won a second term in the 1900 election with Roosevelt as his running mate. On September 6, 1901 while visiting Buffalo New York, Leon Czolgosz, an anarchist who opposed all forms of government, attacked McKinley who dies a few days later. Roosevelt assumed the Presidency. ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT MCKINLEY

9. Roosevelt was only 42 when he became President. He was selected to be the Vice Presidential nomine for his charisma and status as a war hero. Republican leaders hoped to keep him from causing political problems. Roosevelt favored increased American power on the world’s stage. Roosevelt described his style of foreign policy as "the exercise of intelligent forethought and of decisive action sufficiently far in advance of any likely crisis” ROOSEVELT’S BIG STICK

10. Roosevelt supported the Open Door Policy in China and worked to prevent any single nation from monopolizing trade there. Roosevelt helped to negotiate an end to the Russo-Japanese War. Rival imperial ambitions of the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan over Manchuria and Korea caused the war. Roosevelt won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1906 for his efforts in ending the war with the signing of the Treaty of Portsmouth. ROOSEVELT’S ACTIONS IN ASIA

11. A fleet consisting of sixteen battleships and 14, 000 sailors of the U.S. Navy set out on December 16, 1907 by President Theodore Roosevelt on a journey around the world, a feat that had never before been attempted. THE GREAT WHITE FLEET WHY?!?

12. “The corollary stated that the United States would intervene in Latin America affairs when necessary to maintain economic and political stability in the Western Hemisphere” (Appleby 2008, page 508). THE ROOSEVELT COROLLARY

13. “By far the most important action I took in foreign affairs during the time I was President was related to the Panama Canal.” – Roosevelt The Hay-Herran Treaty in 1903 offered the Colombian government $10 million in cash and an annual payment of $250,000 for a six-mile- wide strip across the Colombian province of Panama. THE PANAMA CANAL

14. A French company had begun digging a canal in 1881, but abandoned its efforts because of bankruptcy and major loss of life. The US had considered two possible canal sites, the other was in Nicaragua. The French company made the choice easier by selling us the rights and property in Panama. Secretary of State Hay offered Colombia $10 million and a yearly rent for the rights to construct the canal and control the land on either side. The Colombian government refused the offer. ACQUIRING THE CANAL ZONE

15. Panama had opposed Colombian rule since the mid-1800’s and the Canal issue added to the tension. Organized uprisings in Panama, with ten U.S. warships looming offshore, gave Panama it’s independence and the United States land to build it’s canal. PANAMA REVOLTS

16. Over 5,600 men died from disease and accidents (not including the 25,000 earlier French casualties), and the U.S. cost was about $350 million (on top of the $290 million spent by the French company). The Pacific fleet passed through the locks for the first time in 1919, seven months after Roosevelt’s death. THE FINISHED CANAL

17. THE BIG STICK TODAY

18. COMPARING AND CONTRASTING “OUR ROOSEVELT” WITH WHAT WE KNOW NOW “IDEALIZED ROOSEVELT” THE “REAL” ROOSEVELT

20. Taft and the Dollar…and a QUIZ… NEXT TIME…