T. ROOSEVELT TO WILSON
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1) DO THE DQ FOR THE DAY. WRITE THE DAILY
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2) YOU ARE TO COPY THE NOTES (I GET MY COPY BACK).
3) ANSWER THE ROOSEVELT CARTOON QUESTIONS
4) DO “PROVE IT”
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Daily Quote &Question (DQ2 )
“Speak softly and carry a big
stick; you will go far.”
-Theodore Roosevelt
Why was there a shift in
expansionist policy at the end of the
1800s and beginning of the 1900s?
SONG FOR THE DAY: TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS
Roosevelt to Wilson
a.Roosevelt
b.Taft
c.Election of 1912
d.Wilson
A. Roosevelt
1. Active role in
business
Brought 44 anti-trust
suits to break up
monopolies
2. Active in conservation
TR set apart land for forests
and national parks
TR set aside 150 million acres of federal land,
money for irrigation projects in the west, and
established the national conservation
commission.
3. Active in foreign policy
His motto was
“SPEAK Softly And
cArry A big SticK!”
4. Building the Panama Canal
We wanted a direct route to
PAcific from AtlAntic…
Choices were Nicaragua and Panama. Panama
rights were owned by Philippe Buneau-Varilla
(he set up a revolution against Columbia which
had control of Panama). It was successful!
Building started on the
canal in 1904 and ended
in 1914
Yellow fever
5. Nobel peace prize
Roosevelt was the first
American to win the Nobel
peace prize. He won in 1906
for negotiating a peace
treaty in the RussoJapanese war.
Roosevelt corollary
(to the Monroe Doctrine-1823)
U.S. has the right to
intervene between Europe
and the western hemisphere,
but also has the right to
intervene in domestic
affairs to maintain order.
WE bEcomE “intErnAtionAl PolicE PoWEr”
b. William Howard Taft
A big man! 320 pounds
He actually got
stuck In the white
house bathtub!
HE rEliEd on “dollAr
diPlomAcy.” HE
controlled other
countries through
the money we gave
them
legislation
The 16th amendment was
passed. It established
income tax.
The 17th amendment was
passed setting up direct
election of senators.
c. The election of 1912
This election had 4 major
candidates!
Taft (republican)
Wilson (democrat)
Roosevelt (progressive)
Debs (socialist)
Wilson wins the election
he sees
everything as
black or white—no
gray area!!
his way is the right way-the only
WAy… HE is known for
“morAl diPlomAcy.”
d. Wilson
He appointed the first Jewish
mEmbEr of tHE SuPrEmE court…
Louis Brandeis
And he appointed
William Jennings Bryan
as his Secretary
of State.
Tampico incident
-didn’t liKE mExicAn
dictator Huerta (one
of series) and used the
arrest of American
sailors in Tampico,
Mexico, as a reason to
SEnd in tHE mArinES…