Theodore Roosevelt

The reform leader I picked is Theodore Roosevelt. I picked him because I believe he did the most for American society. Roosevelt made a lot of impacts on American society. For example, under the Square Deal, his policies, the Sherman Anti-trust was created. This act purpose was to stop trust and monopolies. This send a loud message making an impact. Another impact was his Pure Food and Drug Act. The purpose of this act was for food and products to be inspected, when food was in good condition,…

Teddy roosevelt did a lot for the industrial industry. He also done a lot with nature and he was president. When teddy was a kid he use to study all kinds of things like taxidermy insects and things like that. Teddy was the 26th president of the united states he has done many things to help out this country. He broke monopolies and trusts and saved the wild life convention. Teddy's real name is Theodore Roosevelt he was the first youngest president in the nation before John F. Kennedy. Theodore…

Theodore Roosevelt became the 26th president of the United States shortly after president William McKinley was assassinated in September 1901. Roosevelt had previously been McKinley’s vice president for only one year and when he took office at the age of 42, he became known as the youngest president in American history. Theodore, or “Teddy”, was a republican politician who, besides being vice president, had been the governor of the state of New York. The Harvard graduate became the assistant…

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the 32nd president of the United States, and is one of the most famous. His most well-known acts of leadership are saving America from the Great Depression, and helping the Allies win World War II. Roosevelt and Alexius Comnenus have a lot in common, starting from their early life. Franklin D. Roosevelt was born on the 30th of January, 1882, in New York. Similar to Alexius, he was born to be a leader. His parents were wealthy, and he was privately tutored and sent…

worked to correct problems during the Progressive Era, Theodore Roosevelt was the most progressive president because he regulated big business, workers rights, and conservation of natural resources The Sherman Antitrust Act was a part of Roosevelt's work of regulating business. Roosevelt used this act when he criticized the wealth of Americans on the account of violence exploding into the public that could destroy the whole system. Roosevelt also used the Pure Food and Drug Act for preventing…

Theodore Roosevelt in his speech outlined ideas which would later become the basis of his 1912 presidential campaign. It expanded on the vision of “new nationalism”, which recognized inevitability of economic concentration. Roosevelt called on the government to regulate new economic structures and to become the “steward of public welfare”. In his speech Roosevelt state that equality will have two major results. One of these results is every man will have a fair chance to make himself all that…

Delano Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882 in Hyde Park, New York. He died in Georgia in 1945 because of cerebral hemorrhage. Roosevelt grew up in a wealthy family in New York. He was the son of James Roosevelt and Sara Delano Roosevelt. His parents and private tutors provided him with almost all his formative education; the Roosevelts had been prosperous for many years, making fortunes in real estate and trade. In 1905, Roosevelt married his distant cousin, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, who…

Theodore Roosevelt used “big stick” diplomacy, a policy of negotiating diplomatically first, with a military force to resort to if necessary. The United States, he claimed, had the right not only to oppose European intervention in the Western Hemisphere, but also to intervene itself in the domestic affairs of its neighbors if they proved unable to maintain order and national sovereignty on their own. It is a way of intimidating countries without actually harming them and was the basis of U.S.…

Governor-General of the Philippines. In 1904, President Theodore Roosevelt appointed Taft Secretary of War in an effort to groom Taft, then his close political ally, into his handpicked presidential successor. Taft assumed a prominent role in problem solving, assuming on some occasions the role of acting Secretary of State, while declining repeated offers from Roosevelt to serve on the Supreme Court. Riding a wave of popular support for fellow Republican Roosevelt, Taft won an easy victory in…

Roosevelt created the Modern Presidency itself. He established many things in office that many others presidents weren’t able to accomplish. He had to deal with the American Economy during the lowest of lows which was after and during the Great Depression. I personally loved the way Gould presented Roosevelt to us in the book. Gould said, “ Roosevelt prepared to take the reins of power.” (Gould, 79). Roosevelt literally held those reins with full force as…