A presentation I did in 5th grade

1. Date :May 25th 2011

2. Hometown and Early Life
 Theodore Roosevelt, or ‘Teddy’, was born on October
27th 1858 in New York City.
 As a child, Teddy grew up with frail health and
asthma.
 His father encouraged him to exercise vigorously to
get out of his asthma.
 Teddy did sports such as: swimming, tennis, running,
biking and boxing.
 He graduated from Harvard University in 1880 and
then he went to law school.
 He married Alice Hathaway Lee in that same year and
they had one child, Alice.

3. Family
 Theodore married Edith Kermit Carow in 1886
after his first wife died. They had five children:
Theodore Jr., Kermit, Ethel, Archibald, and
Quentin.
 Teddy had wealthy, Dutch and English parents.

4. Political Party
• Theodore was a Republican man.
• He started his first term after
President William McKinley was shot.
• After finishing that he decided to run
for a full term.
• He got elected and had one full term
in office.
• After his first full term, Teddy wanted
to run again, but he failed.

5. Greatest Challenges
 One of Theodore Roosevelt's greatest
challenges was overcoming the deaths of his
first wife and his mother on Valentine’s Day,
1884.
 Another challenge for Teddy was when he
tried to conserve all wildlife and forests while
President.
 He ended up starting 150 national forests and
5 national parks.

6.  Theodore was in office for two terms,
from 1901-1909.
 Roosevelt became first president when
William McKinley died in office.
 After finishing for McKinley, Theodore ran
again and won.
 He also created his own political party
called the Bull-Moose party.

7. Campaign promises
 Theodore kept a 1904 campaign promise that
he would not seek reelection in 1908, he
threw his weight behind William Howard Taft
as his successor.
 He won the largest popular and electoral
majority of any incumbent president in
American history, then promised never to run
for the presidency again. It was a promise he
did not keep.

8.  The building of the Panama Canal
 The coal strike of 1902
 The 16th amendment passes
 Wright Brothers fly the 1st plane
 The San Francisco earthquake

9.  Conserving more than 150 million acres of wildlife
and national forests
 Modernized the army command structure
 Passed the Meat-Inspection Act, and the Pure
Food & Drug Act (1906)
 He opened a canal across the Americas and added
150 million acres of land to the National Forests
through the Forest Reserve Act of 1891.


10. Fun Facts!!!!!!!!!!
 Theodore Roosevelt was the youngest president at
that time.
 He did not have a middle name.
 Theodore Roosevelt would sometimes read 2-3
books in one day.
 The Roosevelt's had a Chesapeake Bay retriever;, a
Pekingese; Skip, a mutt; terriers named Jack and
Pete; cats named Tom Quartz and Slippers; Josiah
the badger; Algonquin the pony; Eli the macaw;
Jonathan the piebald rat; Emily Spinach, a garter
snake; twelve horses; five bears; five guinea pigs;
other snakes; two kangaroo rats; lizards; roosters;