Teddy+Roosevelt+Bullet+Points

" I did not usurp power...but I did greatly broaden the use of executive power".

(France attempted it in the 1880s, Went up and over Panama, Needs rain, No mosquitoes, 1903-1913) [|Panama Canal Tranist and Operation Cartoon] [|Panama Canal Time Lapse]
 * Republican and Independent party
 * President 1901-1908 (VP for McKinley, won on his own in 1904, ran as an independent in the Election of 1912)
 * "Trust buster" vs. railroad monopolies
 * Was not anti-business....just wanted to regulate not dissolve trusts
 * Expert on ornithology (birds) and the US Navy
 * Pushed for the building of the Panama Canal[[image:mrjohnsonssclasses/tr panama canal.jpg]]
 * Solved several international disputes in Central America, got the Nobel Peace Prize for work with the Russians and Japanese (Russo-Japanese War)
 * Used the slogan in his bid for re-election in 1904 "The Square Deal"- What do you think this means?
 * Pushed for the "Meat Inspection Act" and later the "Pure Food and Drug Act" in 1906
 * Pushed for land to be set aside for public use (National Parks) and for historic sites to be protected
 * Teddy Roosevelt "firsts"......to leave the country while a sitting president (went to Panama), first to entertain a prominent African American in the White House, first to call the White House the White House, first president to fly in an airplane, first to own a car, first to get submerged in a submarine.
 * Wanted to show US power through the "Great White Fleet" 1907-1909[[image:http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/h81000/h81513k.jpg width="626" height="490"]]