1. President Theodore Roosevelt
26th president

2. Early Life Theodore Roosevelt suffered from asthma as a child.
At home remedies
Drinking Coffee
Smoking Cigar
Exercise (hiking, horseback riding, swimming)

3. College Life Attended Harvard
Participated in two sports while at Harvard
Boxing
Sculling

4. Life in the Badlands Bought a ranch and cattle Loved the open land
Enjoyed the hard work
His time in South Dakota shaped future policies.

5. Spanish American War Rough Riders Victory at San Juan Hill
1st U.S. Volunteer Cavalry
Victory at San Juan Hill
Returned to New York as a war hero

6. Governor of New York
Coming home a war hero helped Theodore Roosevelt become Governor of NY
Refused to give State Insurance Commissioner and Public Works Commissioner positions to the normal party members.
Threat to patronage led republican party bosses to “kick Theodore upstairs” by having him run for vice president.

7. 1900 election
Roosevelt was an energetic campaigner he made 480 stops covering 21,000 miles by train.
William McKinley is elected President for his second term with Theodore Roosevelt as his Vice President.

8. McKinley is assassinated
McKinley didn’t want his security to get in between him and the public
While shaking hands with the public on September , McKinley was shot twice.
McKinley died of gangrene on September 14
Theodore Roosevelt becomes president.

9. Square Deal the 3 C’s Conservation of natural resources
"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."
Control of Corporations
“Trust Busting”
Work to curb the power of trusts "within reasonable limits"
Consumer Protection
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Wrote about the conditions in the meat industry

10. Bully Pulpit How things “ought to be”
Uses speeches to influence media and shape legislation

11. Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902
Workers wanted higher wages, shorter workdays and their union recognized
The strike threatened winter coal supplies to major cities
Theodore Roosevelt met with union workers and mine owners where he then created the Anthracite Strike Commission
The Strike ended after 163 days on October

12. How the Teddy Bear got its name
President Roosevelt while on a hunting trip refused to shoot an old bear his aides tied up for sport.
The news leaks to press.
Toy store owner, Morris Michtom, asks permission to call the bears his wife makes “TEDDY” bears.

13. Assassination Attempt
50 page speech in his breast pocket slowed down the bullet
Gave a 90 minute speech while he had a bullet lodged in his ribs
“Friends,” he said, “I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible. I don’t know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot— but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose.”