THEODORE ROOSEVELT!!!!!!!!!!!help-book report!!!HELP?

Question

heyy, well anyway im doing this report on Theodore Roosevelt and i need your help. I need to know some inportant info.......well plz tell me wat u know about him.....true answers plz!!! Oh and before i forget did Theodore create the teddy bear???? thank u so much!! ( if anyone answers this question)

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Answer 1

Theodore Roosevelt invaded the Philippines without orders. He led the charge up San Juan hill even though it should really be called the walk up San Juan hill because their horses were still in Florida (This happened in Cuba) he became president and took a lot of his "ideas" from Robert La Foylette, the governor of Wisconsin. He did not invent the Teddy Bear. He actually hated being called Teddy. You could only call him Theodore. He was a sickly child but became a strong man through nature and that's why he created so many national reservation parks. He created New Nationalism and didn't want to get rid of trusts, just regulate them.
Why don't you try reading about him if you really want to know.

Answer 2

TR was born in 1859 in NYC of a well-to-do family (I think his grandfather and FDR's great-grandfather were brothers). Although a sickly boy, he strengthed his body, went to college and was elected a NY State Assemblyman in 1880. In 1884, his wife and his mother died on the same day. Shattered by this, he went west to the Dakotas to become a "cowboy", and wrote about his experiences. After he got over the grief, he returned and became NYC Police Commissioner and reformed many of the corrupt practices on the force. In 1898, when the Spanish-American War started, he raised a group of former college friends and friends from the Dakotas into a fighting group called the "Rough Riders". The group had a major role in taking "Kettle Hill", on the heights over Santiago, Cuba. Home as a hero of the war, he was nominated for Vice-President in the 1900 Republican Party, where McKinley was running for re-election. They won. In 1901, McKinley was assassinated at the Buffalo, NY Exposition, and TR became President at the age of 42, the youngest President ever.

He had a political attitude that differed widely from most Republicans of the day, believing that the Federal Government should be more active in helping the individual cope in a society being more and more controlled by business (so what's new?). The first inkling of this happened in 1902 when he intervened in a coal strike, which if continued could cripple industry and bring hardship to people, to bring about a settlement. He stepped in to negotiations between Columbia and the US to let the US purchase a site for a canal through Panama (then part of Columbia) by arranging for an uprising in Panama back up by US naval power. The new republic ceded the land, and the Canal started construction. He was the first President to leave the US during term of office, and visited the canal construction. He had his Attorney General start lawsuits against large companies that he thought were monopolies. In his presidency, the Food and Drug Act was passed (the folks who tell you all the Chinese toys are poisoned). Although he often preached on subjects "for which the term 'bully pulpit' was coined", he was a good policitian who know how to cut deals.

He was very popular with the people, who were inspired by his evolution from a sickly youth to a muscular man, his experiences in the West, and the war. He wrote many books, even while President. He has four boy and a girl, who married a Senator in one of the "fairy tale" weddings in the White House. His daughter lived into the 1980s, and became an "institution" in Washington. He arranged for settlement of War between the Russian and Japanese Empires for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize.

Although he could have been elected president in 1908, he kept a promise he made not to run, and hand-picked his successor, William Howard Taft. Although Taft was a conscientious president, he was less vigorous than Roosevelt, and TR criticized him during his administration. In 1912, TR couldn't keep the Republicans from re-nominating Taft, so he broke with the party and formed the Progressive (or "Bull Moose" party) . The effect was that the Republican vote split and Wilson became President.

After that, Roosevelt undertook an expedition to Africa sponsored by the National Geographic Society. While people were thrilled by his exploits, the expedition was not successful, and TR suffered greatly. In 1917, the US declared war on the German Empire and entered World War I. Roosevelt volunteered to become a general of a division that would go to France, but his offer went unheeded. One of his sons died in the war. In 1919, he died at the age of 63.

His home in Oyster Bay, NY, which he loved to come home to during his presidency and the home in which he was sworn in as President in 1901 in Buffalo, NY, are National Sites. When Mount Rushmore was created, he joined Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln as four of the top presidents to that time. He is still considered one of the best presidents.

Answer 3

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