Teddy Time!

Activator:

• Write down what you know about him.• How many things can you come up with?

• 60 seconds - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3y-8aHZr0Nk • 4 min - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_5yNiTEfVw

• 43 as President (Rep & Prog.)• JFK – 43, Obama – 47

• Survived assassination• 1912; 50 page speech• “Ladies & Gentleman, I don’t know if you

fully understand that I have just been shot; but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose.”• Thus the Bull Moose/Progressive Party.

• Big stick diplomacy • Graduate of Harvard

Political Career

• NY State Assembly• President of NY City Board of Police Commissioners • Asst. Sec of Navy

• Left to fight in the Spanish American War• Calvary Unit called Rough Riders

• Gov. of NY• Vice President for William McKinley

President Roosevelt• President… but not meant to be…• Progressive Reformer President!

• 1. Square Deal• Keep wealthy/powerful from taking advantage of poor masses

(and small business owners)

• “When I say I believe in the square deal, I do not mean to give every man the best hand. If good cards do not come to any man, or if they do come, and he has not got the power to play them, that is his affair. All I mean is that there shall be no crookedness in the dealing”.

• 2. Saw to creation of FDA.

3. TR the Trustbuster

• Helped workers in labor disputes – coal.

• Dept. of Commerce and Labor• Monitor businesses engaged

in interstate commerce .• Keep capitalists from

abusing power.

• Hepburn Act – gave ICC (Interstate Commerce Commission) enforcement powers .• Gov’t can set/limit

shipping costs, set max prices for ferries/bridge tolls/oil pipelines.

• Good trusts vs. bad trusts.• Big business is fine, as

long as it’s legit.

The Trustbuster vs. Standard Oil

TR the Conservationist • Admired John Muir

• Yosemite and Redwood Forrest

• 4. Conservation or Preservation?• TR closed 100 million acres of forestland.

• Wanted to conserve and use.• Protect trees so they can grow into good lumber.

• 1902, National Reclamation Act• Fed gov’t decides where and how water should be distributed.• Build dams, water mgmt projects to create lakes, etc.

Roosevelt Becomes President• 5. Under Roosevelt the U.S.

followed an aggressive foreign policy and continued to expand its power overseas.

• 5a. “Speak softly and carry a big stick!”• SS – use diplomacy• CABS – use deterence, maybe military

• 5b. Panama Canal. (skip some lines)• 5c. Negotiated peace with Russia

and Japanese.• Won a Nobel Prize

5d. Roosevelt Corollary• Issued to add onto

the Monroe Doctrine in 1904.

• He denied the US wanted any territory!

• He said the Us only wanted “to see neighboring countries stable, orderly, and prosperous.

• But the US might be forced to exercise “an international police power.”

• “It must be understood that under no circumstances will the US use the Monroe Doctrine as a cloak for territorial aggression. We desire peace will all the world, but perhaps most of all with the other peoples of the American continent…It is always possible that wrong actions towards this nation…may result in our having to take action to protect our rights; but such action will not be taken with a view to territorial aggression.

Panama Canal • 1903 - Panama gets

independence from Columbia in a US backed revolution.

• 1903 – construction begins.

• 1913 – construction ends.

• 1914 – canal opens.• 1999 – canal is returned to

Panama. http://www.pancanal.com/eng/photo/camera-java.html (watch it live!)

Other interesting information

• Taxidermist• 5 children• African Safari• Smithsonian

• Nobel Peace Prize• Russo Japanese

War• First American

• Up in a plane• Down in a sub

• Boy Scouts award:• Chief Scout Citizen

• Americanization• Skinny dipping?!

• Potomac River• Hated “Teddy”• Ran for President after

“retired” under new Bull Moose Party

Differences with Taft…

For your TR assignment (due: _10/23___) you may pick from the following options.  You may work on this with a partner and make sure to include his conservation efforts.

* Write his obituary in a newspaper (more factual, can be positive or negative, must be at least one page long, have a title and photo). At least 10 sent.

* Write a speech to deliver at his funeral (more emotional, must be at least one page long; 10 sent).

* Create a collage (8 1/2 X 11) of his accomplishments. Need a variety of info!!!

* Create a sculpture, painting, etc.

* Write a poem/song (at least 5 stanzas of four lines) - can use “Ghostbusters”

Summarizer (TOTD) for Today:

• Historical Hashtags or Tweets!

• 1. Construct a tweet from Teddy Roosevelt & include 3 hashtags

• 2. Compile a list of hashtags for him• 5 for 3rd and 4th block• 7 for 1st