What factors resulted in the Spanish-American War and how did Theodore Roosevelt promote a

new, more imperialistic foreign policy?

What Made Theodore Roosevelt a Different & More Inspiring Leader

than Other Post-Civil War Presidents

Theodore Roosevelt and the Struggle to Overcome Asthma

“For joy or for sorrow my life has now been lived out.”

Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt

Martha “Mittie” Bulloch Roosevelt

The Retreat to the Badlands and the Return Home

The Road to War

•The Need for Foreign Markets

•Testing a New Steel Battleship Navy

•A Revolution in Cuba

•The Yellow Press and the Sinking of the Maine

•Orders to Admiral George Dewey

ROUGH RIDER•Outperforming the Father

•“All men who feel any power of joy in battle, know what it is like when the wolf rises in the heart.”

•“Should the worst come to the worst I am quite content to go now and to leave my children at least an honorable name.”

Washington Post cartoon, November

16, 1902

The Square Deal

•Conservation

•Regulating Not Busting the Trusts

•Reacting to the Muckrakers

•Stewardship Theory

•“Conservative as Progressive”

The Fall From Power

•William Howard Taft and a More Limited Presidency

•The Rise and Fall of the Bull Moose

•The Struggle with Woodrow Wilson

Film Segments

The American Experience, TR

•“The Long Campaign”

•“Civil and Military Service”

•“The Bully Pulpit”

What factors resulted in the Spanish-American War and how did Theodore Roosevelt promote a

new, more imperialistic foreign policy?