1. strenuous life

• boxer, cowboy, tennis, rough rider, big game hunter
  
• Teddy Bear of Ideal Toy Co. 1903

2. frontier spirit

• Badlands ranch, sheriff, Owen Wister, historian, 4 vol. Winning of the West
  

3. Bull Moose Republican

• reformer, moralist, activist, anti-monopoly
  
• pro-Harrison 1888 but not P-G William Wallace
  
• Civil Service Commission 1889-95
  
• NY Board of Police Commissioners 1895-97
  • walked Mulberrry St. with Riis
    
  • publicity - wrote magazine articles
    
• Sunday closing law, but Boss Platt wanted German vote
  
• Governor of NY 1898-1900 - corporation franchise tax
  

4. New Nationalism

• stewardship, corporatism & efficiency, centralized authority
  
• Northern Securities Co. 1901 - a "bad" trust of J.P. Morgan - restraint of trade
  
  • Philander Knox filed suits vs. 44 cos. - "trustbuster"
    
• Anthracite Coal Strike 1902 - G. Baer, J.Mitchell -Square Deal
  
  • Geroge Baer of Phil. & Reading vs. John Mitchel of UMW
    
  • Square Deal - 10% price and wage increase - government as arbitrator
    
  • but not in Cripple Creek, Colorado, mine strike 1904
    
• Newlands Reclamation Act 1902 - conservation for use
  
  • Joe Cannon & lumber vs. John Muir and wilderness
    
  • Gifford Pinchot & Forest Service 1905 - multiple use
    
  • 17m acres added to forest reserves 1907
    
• Elkins Act 1903 - regulatory purpose
  
  • ICC to regulate railroads - no rebates
    
• Election of 1904 - "a splendid victory" over A. Parker, E. Debs
  
  • 57.4% vs. 37.6% vs. 3% - def. Old Guard - Congress still Repub
    
• Pure Food & Drug Act 1905 - influence of muckrakers, Dr. Harvey Wiley
  
• Meat Inspection Act 1906 - influence of Upton Sinclair's books
  
• Hepburn Act 1906 - ICC strengthened to fix railroad rates
  
• Tennessee Coal & Iron Co. 1907 - by USS to stop Panic
  
• Aldrich-Vreeland Act 1908 - auth'd national banks to issue emergency currency
  
  • paved way for Federal Reserve System 1913
    
• San Fran earthquake and fire Apr. 18, 1906 - 3 days - 452 killed
  
  • sent special prosecutor Francis Heney (friend of Lincoln Steffens) and Williamm Burns (head Secret Service) - against Boss Reuf

5. Imperialism

• Panama Canal 1903 - construction 1904-14
  
• Alaska Boundary 1903 - "big stick" diplomacy with Brit.
  
• Roosevelt Corollary 1904 - right of intervention to keep order
  
• Portsmouth Treaty 1905 - mediation of Russo-Japanese War
  
• Algeciras Conference 1906 - Ger. could not have Morocco
  

Resources:

• Presidential rankings from CNN, Feb. 21, 2000
• Roosevelt's books online from the New Bartleby Library from Steven H. van Leeuwen include The Rough Riders (1899), and The Strenuous Life (1900)
• Theodore Roosevelt Page from Jim Wiedman
• Theodore Roosevelt from the White House
• Theodore Roosevelt and elections and Documents from Encyclopedia Britannica
• Official Mount Rushmore page
• Gutzon Borglum short biography from South Dakota state
• Theodore Roosevelt National Park in the South Dakota Badlands
• Teddy Bear Links from Debrah Martin Kesling
• Panama-California Exposition 1915 from Mike Kelley and San Diego Historical Society
• Theodore Roosevelt Association includes the Medal of Honor awarded by Clinton 1/16/01