Theodore Roosevelt Imperialism

Theodore Roosevelt was an American statesman, author, explorer, soldier, and naturalist he also served as President of the United States from 1901 to 1909. He is best known for his conservation efforts and his part in the Spanish American war. Roosevelt established the United States Forest Service, signed into law the creation of five National Parks, and signed the 1906 Antiquities Act, under which he proclaimed 18 new US national monuments. He also established the first 51 Bird Reserves, 4 Game Preserves, and 150 National Forests, including Shoshone National Forest, which was the nation's first. The area of the United States that he placed under public protection totals approximately 930,000 km. He used executive orders extensively on many occasions to protect forest and wildlife lands during his …show more content…
Roosevelt used executive orders to establish 121 forest reserves in 31 states. In March 1909, shortly after the end of his presidency, Roosevelt left New York for the Smithsonian-Roosevelt African Expedition, a safari in east and central Africa. Roosevelt's party landed in British East Africa, Mombasa and traveled to the Belgian Congo before following the Nile River to Khartoum in Sudan. Financed by Andrew Carnegie and by his own writings, Roosevelt's party hunted for specimens for the Smithsonian Institution and for the American Museum of Natural History in New York. The group, which was led by the legendary hunter-tracker RJ Cunninghame, included scientists from the Smithsonian, and was joined from time to time by Frederick Selous, the famous big game hunter and explorer. Participants on the expedition included Kermit Roosevelt, Edgar Alexander Mearns, Edmund Heller and John Alden Loring. Roosevelt and his companions killed and trapped approximately 11,400 animals. The 1,000 large animals included 512 big game animals, including six rare White