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CHARACTER QUOTES

EXAMPLE:

“Believe you can and you're halfway there.”

• Optimistic

• Believes in human progress

PRELIMINARY PERSONALITY

PROFILE

#1 – “Nobody cares how much you know, until they know

how much you care.”

QUOTES

#1 #2 #3 #4

#5 #6 #7 #8

#2 – “In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is

the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the

worst thing you can do is nothing.”

#3 – “Generally peace tells for righteousness; but if there is

conflict between the two, then our faithfulness is due first to

the cause of righteousness.”

#4 – “Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the

chance to work hard at work worth doing.”

He was the type of person who __________________.

His words showed that he favored ______________________.

He seemed to be _____________________________________.

#5 – “Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the

ground.”

#6 – “The most important single ingredient in the formula of

success is knowing how to get along with people.”

#7 – “Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid

hitting; but never hit soft.”

#8 – “Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.”

THEODORE

ROOSEVELT

BIG STICKS AND THE PANAMA CANAL

“SPEAK

SOFTLY AND

CARRY A

BIG STICK;

YOU WILL

GO FAR.”

PRESIDENT THEODORE ROOSEVELT

McKinley won a second term in

the 1900 election with Roosevelt

as his running mate.

On September 6, 1901 while

visiting Buffalo New York, Leon

Czolgosz, an anarchist who

opposed all forms of

government, attacked McKinley

who dies a few days later.

Roosevelt assumed the

Presidency.

ASSASSINATION OF

PRESIDENT MCKINLEY

Roosevelt was only 42 when he

became President.

He was selected to be the Vice

Presidential nomine for his charisma

and status as a war hero.

Republican leaders hoped to keep

him from causing political problems.

Roosevelt favored increased

American power on the world’s

stage.

Roosevelt described his style of

foreign policy as "the exercise of

intelligent forethought and of

decisive action sufficiently far in

advance of any likely crisis”

ROOSEVELT’S

BIG STICK

Roosevelt supported the Open Door Policy

in China and worked to prevent any single

nation from monopolizing trade there.

Roosevelt helped to negotiate an end to the

Russo-Japanese War.

• Rival imperial ambitions of the Russian

Empire and the Empire of Japan over

Manchuria and Korea caused the war.

Roosevelt won the Nobel Peace Prize in

1906 for his efforts in ending the war with

the signing of the Treaty of Portsmouth.

ROOSEVELT’S

ACTIONS IN ASIA

A fleet consisting of sixteen battleships and 14, 000 sailors of the U.S. Navy set

out on December 16, 1907 by President Theodore Roosevelt on a journey around

the world, a feat that had never before been attempted.

THE GREAT WHITE FLEET

WHY?!?

“The corollary stated that

the United States would

intervene in Latin

America affairs when

necessary to maintain

economic and political

stability in the Western

Hemisphere” (Appleby

2008, page 508).

THE ROOSEVELT

COROLLARY

“By far the most

important action I took in

foreign affairs during the

time I was President was

related to the Panama

Canal.” – Roosevelt

The Hay-Herran Treaty in

1903 offered the

Colombian government

$10 million in cash and

an annual payment of

$250,000 for a six-mile-

wide strip across the

Colombian province of

Panama.

THE PANAMA CANAL

A French company had begun digging a canal in 1881, but abandoned its efforts because of bankruptcy and major loss of life.

The US had considered two possible canal sites, the other was in Nicaragua. The French company made the choice easier by selling us the rights and property in Panama.

Secretary of State Hay offered Colombia $10 million and a yearly rent for the rights to construct the canal and control the land on either side. The Colombian government refused the offer.

ACQUIRING THE

CANAL ZONE

Panama had opposed Colombian rule

since the mid-1800’s and the Canal

issue added to the tension.

Organized uprisings in Panama, with

ten U.S. warships looming offshore,

gave Panama it’s independence and the

United States land to build it’s canal.

PANAMA REVOLTS

Over 5,600 men died from

disease and accidents

(not including the 25,000

earlier French casualties),

and the U.S. cost was

about $350 million (on

top of the $290 million

spent by the French

company). The Pacific

fleet passed through the

locks for the first time in

1919, seven months after

Roosevelt’s death.

THE FINISHED CANAL

THE BIG STICK TODAY

COMPARING AND CONTRASTING

“OUR ROOSEVELT” WITH WHAT WE

KNOW NOW

“IDEALIZED

ROOSEVELT”

THE “REAL”

ROOSEVELT

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