Theodore Roosdevelt: 26th President Of The United States (1901-1909) :: essays research papers

Theodore Roosdevelt 26th President of the United States (1901-1909)Theodore Roosevelt was an energetic and dynamic leader who gave the nation asquare deal. During his presidency to a position of internatio nal leadership.Roosevelt belonged to an aristocratic New York family. He attended HarvardUniverity. Theodore Roosevelt fought in the Spanish-Ameri enkindle war with the RoughRiders at the battle of San Juan Hill. He had served as police commissiores ofNew York, assistant secretary of the navy, governor of New York, and vicepresident of the United States.     When president McKinley was assassinatedon September 14, 1901, Theodore Roosevelt became, at the time, the youngest (43years) president in hist ory.The president saw himself as a man of the middle who would meditate thestruggle between capital and labor. He said that argumentation must be protectedagainst itself and he tended to favor regulatory commissions that providednonpartisan supervisi on by experts of business practices. As president hesucceeded in getting additional authority over the railroads for the interstatecommerce commission. He was also instrumental in the passage of the meatinspection act and the pure nutriment and drug act.     Ro attitude toward the poor andtowards the labor movement was that of an enlightened conservative. Hesupported many labor demands such as shorter hours for women and children,employers liability laws and limitations on the custom of injunctions againstworkers in labor disputes.In reform, Roosevelt wanted gradual change. He moved in the direction of thereformers and ended up as the candidate of the progressive troupe in the BullMoose presidential campaingn in 1912. He had broken with the Repub lican party.In 1907 immigration reached its all-time high 1,285,000 in one year. TheodoreRoosevelt said, "T here(predicate) can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says heis an American, but something else also, isnt a n American at all. We have room but for on language here and that is the English language, for we intend tosee that the crucible turns our people out as Americans, of Americannationality we have room for but one soul loyalty, and that is loyalty to theAmerican people."Ro l ed the United States into continous armed interventions in the caribbean.In 1906 an insurrection in Cuba caused the United States to intervene in itsaffairs. The American government withdrew its power when ordr was restored.In the Philippines c ivil government was put into operation, and acommunications cable was laid across the Pacific.Roosevelt intervened in the war betwwen Russia and Japan. He invited theRussian and Japanese governments to send mollification commissioners to America where a