Chapter 21: Section 4: The Progressive Presidents

Chapter 21: Section 4: The Progressive Presidents

Teddy Roosevelt

• ​a naturalist protects nature

• He was also an explorer he made many national parks and protected animals

• he was a police commissioner

• he took on corrupt police officers

• lead men in a cavalry charge in Cuba

• suffered from asthma

• considered too weak for school

• took up boxing and wrestling, and built up his stamina

• Became President in 1901 after William McKinley was assassinated

​Political Cartoon- Theodore Roosevelt

​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAy4q9vnC3g

​Roosevelt Policy

​"Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick-You Will Go Far"

• ​Roosevelt Speech from 1901

• The full phrase indicates that success is likely to result when you take a nicer approach even when everyone involved knows that you have a more forceful option at your disposal.

​Regulating Big Business

• ​Pure Food and Drug Act- law prohibited the manufacture, sale, and transport of mislabeled or contaminated food or drugs.

• Roosevelt enacted this in 1906

• First American President to use the 1890 Sherman Antitrust Act to break up a monopoly.

​Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity; and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life.

​John Muir, Our National Parks