Theodore Roosevelt: The Fight Against Corruption
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50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of Theodore Roosevelt. Roosevelt became US President following the tragic assassination of William McKinley and at a time when industrialisation had led to the rise of capitalism and corruption. Roosevelt made it his mission to improve living conditions for American workers and consumers through commerce regulation, and bolstered American prominence on the international stage using his famous diplomatic tactics.
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• Discover Theodore Roosevelt’s difficult youth and rise to prominence against all the odds
• Understand his domestic policy, including regulation of interstate commerce and ‘trust busting’
• Learn more about his foreign policy and use of benevolent imperialism and diplomacy to intervene in cases from the independence of Panama to the Russo-Japanese War
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Theodore Roosevelt
Key information
Born: 27 October 1858 in New York.
Died: 6 January 1919 in New York.
Political party: Republican.
Dates of election:
14 September 1901
8 November 1904.
Length of term: seven years.
Main achievements:
Modernisation of the presidency
Trust regulation
Bill on railroad rates
Law on monitoring the food and drug industries
Making the Navy central to American diplomacy
The beginning of benevolent imperialism in the United States.
Introduction
In 1901, at the age of 42, Theodore Roosevelt became the youngest president in the history of the United States. Full of energy and an excellent public speaker, he was a charismatic leader who never thought twice about disrupting the rules of the presidency. Unlike his predecessor, Roosevelt defended his own political initiatives, readily keeping his distance from his party’s ideology. He would do this even more during his second term, which would be one of the most prolific in terms of legislative production in American history.
During his career, he also transformed domestic policy by increasing the number of measures that were part of the Progressive movement. On an international level, he considerably strengthened the role played by his country in the global order of the early 20th century and contributed to the assertion of American imperialism.
A great protector of nature, war hero and defender of the working classes, he remains popular to