Theodore

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Theodore Teddy Roosevelt

• Created
• by
• Mrs. Pasisis

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Overarching Question

• What did Roosevelt do to earn immortalization at
  Mount Rushmore? Most people can easily answer
  why the others figures were chosen.
  So..after studying about the life and work
  of Theodore Roosevelt, YOU decide why YOU THINK
  he was placed among such prestigious company
  (George Washington - the father of our country,
  Thomas Jefferson - author of the Declaration of
  Independence, and Abraham Lincoln - the Great
  Emancipator who united the country.

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Young Teddy

• Childhood struggles
• Teddys illnesses

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Teenager Teddy

• Works hard in his fathers home gym
• Overcomes illnesses through the strength of his
  will

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TR The Athlete

• Harvard years
• Sculling and boxing

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Roosevelt at Harvard

• Roosevelts classroom
• education

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Early Adult Years

• 1881 Climbing the Matterhorn
• Death of mother and wife
• Retreat to the Badlands

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Life in the Badlands

• Learned lessons in the Badlands
• Took the snob out of me
• Love of the open land
• Shaped future policies

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TRs 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)

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Early Career

• President of the NYC Board of Police
  Commissioners
• Already a mover and a shaker and a friend of
  the common man

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Rough Riders

• Roosevelt as part of this volunteer regiment
• Victory at San Juan Hill
• Medal of Honor

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McKinley/Roosevelt Ticket

• Roosevelts progressive campaign style
• Powerful speeches

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Roosevelt Becomes President

• Assassination of McKinley
• A visible president

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Origin of Teddy Bear

• The famous bear hunt in 1902
• Berrymans political cartoon

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Early Presidential Years

• Family picture at Sagamore Hill in Oyster Bay on
  Long Island, New York
• Stories of Roosevelts enjoyment of his children

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President Roosevelt in the White House

• 1903

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The Bully Pulpit

• How things ought to be
• A bully pulpit speech in Evanston, Illinois

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Roosevelt as Conservationist

• National Parks, National Forests, game and bird
  preserves, and other federal reservations
• 230,000,000 acres

• President Theodore Roosevelt at Yosemite in 1903.

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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."

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Panama Canal Roosevelts Most Famous Foreign
Policy Initiative

• Here TR inspects the canal construction in Panama
  in 1906.

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The Square Deal

• A fair shake for all
• Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906
• Meat Inspection Act of 1906

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Attack on Laissez Faire

• Work to curb the power of trusts "within
  reasonable limits"
• Roosevelt the Trust Buster

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Big Stick Diplomacy

• A favorite proverb, "Speak softly and carry a big
  stick. . . . "
• What do you think this means?

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TR Saves Football

• Meeting of the Big Three
• American Football Rules Committee was formed
• Rules to make the game less dangerous

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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

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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

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Roosevelt Hand Picks Taft

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

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Roosevelt Loses to Wilson

• The Progressive Bull Moose loses in 1912
• Life goes on
• Theodore Roosevelt at the wedding of his
  daughter Ethel to Richard Derby.

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An Older Theodore Roosevelt

• Agony over the death of Quentin in World War I
• "Grandfather" Roosevelt hugs baby granddaughter
  Edith Roosevelt Derby, 1918.

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Roosevelts Death

• "The old lion is dead."
• Photo shows the burial of Theodore Roosevelt,
  January 1919 in Youngs Memorial Cemetery, Oyster
  Bay, NY.
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Works Cited

• "Theodore Roosevelt Collection." 1998.
• Harvard College Library. 4 Dec 2006
• lthttp//hcl.harvard.edu/houghton/dep artment
  /roosevelt.html. gt.