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-lecture note1Theodore Roosevelt as Patrician Reformer
1858 to 1919
1876 Harvard,"see here Roosevelt let me talk, I’m
running this course"
1880 Alice Hathaway Lee
study of corporate law
1881 elected to NY state assembly
corrupt democrats in Tammany Hall
1884 "the light had gone out of my life"
The Bad Lands
1886 Edith Kermit Carrow, five children plus Alice his
daughter from first marriage
1895 president of NY city’s board of police
commissioners, established police academy – first one
in the country
TR’s view of world power – white protestants had a
destiny to spread their superior religion and life to
the world, even if the "inferior people" were
displaced.
Spanish American War, "I would have turned away from
my wife’s death bed to answer that call."
Published the "Rough Riders"
1898, war hero elected govenor of New York
Senator Platt and Republican party can’t control him,
they want him out
"Walk softly but carry a big stick"
Hannah’s worst fears realized
Problems with Alive while in the White House
Tennis Cabinet, boxing, hiking
Two thirds of the largest corporations in 1900 did not
exist in 1895 "the manifest evils of the Trusts"
1902 Antracite Coal strike, over 150,000 miners on
strike for Union recognition, 9 hour day, increased
pay
J.P. Morgan
Northern Securities Company 1904
Beef Trust
Upton Sinclair "The Jungle"
Lincoln Steffens "Tweed days in St. Louis" and "Shame
of the Cities"
Ida B Tarbell "History of the Standard Oil"
Pure Food and Drug Act
Meat Inspection Act 1906
Newlands Act of 1902
Forest Service, created 150 million acre forest
preserve – Devils Tower in Wyoming becomes the
nations’ first national monument
Square Deal
"Bully"
Booker T Washington "Up From Slavery"
W.E.B Dubois "The Souls of Black Folk" and "The
Crisis"
NAACP
Lynching and race riots – 1908 Springfield Illinois
was the largest
TR had 3 companies of black soldiers dishonorably
discharged after Brownsville Texas problem, accused of
antagonizing white people – Square Deal did not extend
to race
Secretary of State Root and Japan
Panama Canal. England persuaded to give up rights to a
joint canal, purchased French company at work on the
canal; US Marines used to support Panama Revolution
against Columbia "I took the Canal" – "Bully"
Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, and the
possible use of military force against -
"the barbarous and semi barbarous peoples a most
regrettable but necessary international police duty
which must be performed for the sake of the welfare of
mankind."
TR "Chronic wrongdoing, or impedance, which results in
a general loosing of the ties of civilized society,
may in America as else where, ultimately require
intervention by some civilized nation. And in the
Western Hemisphere the adherence of the United States
to the Monroe Doctrine may force the United States,
however reluctantly, in flagrant cases of such wrong
doing or impedance, to exercise of international
police power."
Election 1904
Roosevelt
Eugene V Debs
-national income tax, estate taxes, regularization and
control of the Stock Market, workman’s compensation, 8
hour work day, protections for striking workers, union
recognition
All law enforcement agencies placed under department
of justice, FBI created
Nobel Peace Prize, 1906; Russo-Japanese War peace
settlement in 1905
Gentleman’s Agreement 1907
California State immigration law
Great White Fleet
Election 1908
Taft
Eugene V Debs
Williams Jennings Bryan
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