1. Section 2 The Progressive Presidents
Chapter 19
Section 2
The Progressive Presidents

2. Young Teddy Childhood struggles
Teddy had illnesses as a child, asthma, seen as a weakling.

3. Teenager Teddy Works hard in his father’s home gym
Overcomes illnesses through the strength of his will

4. TR: The Athlete
Harvard years
Sculling and boxing

5. Roosevelt at Harvard Roosevelt’s “classroom”
Education very important to Roosevelt, more true with him than many of his classmates

6. Early Adult Years 1881 – Climbing the Matterhorn
Working in the New York General Assembly
Death of mother and wife
Retreat to the Badlands

7. Life in the Badlands Learned lessons in the Badlands
“Took the snob out of me”
Love of the open land
Shaped future policies

8. TR’s 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)

9. Early Career President of the NYC Board of Police Commissioners
Already a “mover and a shaker” and a friend of the common man
Served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy before the Spanish-American War.

10. Rough Riders
Roosevelt as part of this volunteer regiment in Puerto Rico during the Spanish-American War
Victory at San Juan Hill
Won a Medal of Honor

11. Roosevelt comes home in 1898
Teddy receives a hero’s welcome when he returns home and is soon elected Governor of New York
Boss Platt doesn’t much care for Roosevelt because he is trying to clean up politics in the state
Boss Platt helps to get Roosevelt on the ballot for the next election in hopes of getting TR out of New York

12. McKinley/Roosevelt Ticket 1900
Roosevelt’s progressive campaign style
Powerful speeches
Fame from Spanish-American War

13. Roosevelt Becomes President
Assassination of McKinley 1901 makes Roosevelt the President!
A “visible president”, and very vocal too.

14. Origin of “Teddy Bear” The famous bear hunt in 1902
Berryman’s political cartoon

15. Early Presidential Years
Family picture at Sagamore Hill in Oyster Bay on Long Island, New York
Stories of Roosevelt’s enjoyment of his children

16. President Roosevelt in the White House
1903

17. The Bully Pulpit How things “ought to be”
A bully pulpit speech in Evanston, Illinois

18. The Square Deal 1904
A fair shake for all, or the same opportunity to all for success
1. Protection of America’s wilderness 1905
2. Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906
3. Meat Inspection Act of 1906

19. Roosevelt as Conservationist
U.S. Forest Service 1905
National Parks, National Forests, game and bird preserves, and other federal reservations made
230,000,000 acres
President Theodore Roosevelt at Yosemite in 1903.

20. 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."

21. Attack on Laissez Faire
Work to curb the power of trusts "within reasonable limits"
Roosevelt the “Trust Buster”
Not out to break up all trusts, just the ones that rip people off or use unfair business practices to limit competition

22. Examples of Roosevelt’s Trustbusting
1902 Northern Securities was a trust that was limiting competition in the railroad industry so Roosevelt used the Sherman Antitrust act to break it up by 1904
Suits against Standard Oil, the American Tobacco Company, and any other that limited free market economy
Sherman Antitrust act used here in the way it was initially intended! (Remember in section 1 where the courts used it to crush labor union protesters?)

23. Big Stick Diplomacy
Roosevelt’s favorite African proverb, "Speak softly and carry a big stick and you will go far"
Roosevelt lived by these words in many ways.
What do you think this means?

24. 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

25. 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

26. Roosevelt Hand Picks Taft
Theodore Roosevelt with incoming President William Howard Taft on Taft's inauguration day in 1909

27. William Howard Taft Not as energetic as Roosevelt, quiet and cautious
Actually broke up more trusts than TR
Successes : graduated income tax, safety rules in mines, 8 hour work day for government workers, controls on child labor
However, raised tariffs and weak on Conservation and this angered many Progressives

28. Election of 1912 Election of 1912
What party did they for or stay with?
Progressives: Progressive or Bull Moose Party
Conservatives: Republican Party

29. Election of 1912 Who ran for president? Progressives: TR
Republicans: Taft
Democratic: Wilson
Socialist: Eugene Debs

30. Election of 1912 What was their candidates position on big business?
Progressives supported government action to supervise big business, but did not oppose all big business monopolies
Republicans favored business but worked to break up trusts
Democrats supported small business and free market competition; thought that all big business monopolies were evil
Socialists felt that big business was evil and that the solution involved doing away with capitalism and distributing wealth more equally among the people

31. Works Cited "Theodore Roosevelt Collection." 1998.
Harvard College Library. 4 Dec 2006
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