Since there is so much I could say (and will say in class) about Teddy Roosevelt, I feel it is best to be brief in this week's introduction.
Simply put, Teddy Roosevelt lived the most interesting life of any president we have ever had.
For this week's blog, I want you to independently research the life of Teddy Roosevelt. Watch YouTube videos, read articles etc.
For the comment section, I challenge you to create a "Top Ten List" for Teddy. Call it..."The Top Ten Most Interesting Facts About T.R.". To up the ante a little, rather than giving +5 for the first post and +5 for the best post, I will give +10 to the best list. So...make yours good!
*The list does not have to be in complete sentences, but the total word count still must be at least 200 words.*
The Top 10 Most Interesting Facts About T.R.
ReplyDelete1. Teddy Roosevelt's mother and first wife died on the same day. On Valentine's Day in 1884, his mother died because of typhoid fever. In the same house, just one floor above, Roosevelt's first wife died from Bright's disease and because of the complications she went through giving birth 2 days prior. Both of these deaths were 12 hours apart.
2. Roosevelt went skinny-dipping in the Potomac River. He was known as an outdoors type of person who often escaped the boring old White House. He regularly sailed his yacht on the Potomac River and led hiking expeditions. After long hikes, he would take off all his clothes and jump in the river to cool down.
3. Because of a boxing accident, Roosevelt was basically blind in the left eye. He was punched by an artillery officer who smashed a blood vessel and left him almost fully blind in one of his eyes.
4. T.R. was the first president to ever fly in a plane. He took a 4 minute flight in a plane that was built by the Wright Brothers in October of 1910.
5. Roosevelt is one of the four faces on Mt. Rushmore.
6. Throughout his childhood, T.R. was called "Teedie" by his family to distinguish him from his father.
7. T.R. struggled with asthma and was taken on a lot of "trips" to places where it was easier to breathe.
8. Teddy hated doctors and he once said to one, "Doctor, I'm going to do all of the things you tell me not to do." He always wanted to prove them wrong.
9. Roosevelt was one of the few presidents to not swear on the Bible when coming into presidency.
10. After being shot in his chest, T.R. continued giving his 90 minute speech with blood seeping from the wound through his shirt. (314)
1.The teddy bear was named after Roosevelt, in response to a cartoon showing the president refusing to shoot a bear after it had been tied to a tree. He considered it unsportsmanlike. Who ever thought that these soft and cuddly things came from a president.
ReplyDelete2. While a student at Harvard, Dr. Dudley Sargent warned Roosevelt, who had been a sickly child, that, because of a weak heart, failure to lead a sedentary life could have fatal consequences. “Doctor, I’m going to do all the things you tell me not to do,” Roosevelt responded. “If I’ve got to live the sort of life you have described, I don’t care how short it is.” A year after graduation, Roosevelt took time from his European honeymoon with Alice to scale the 15,000-foot Swiss Alp with two guides.
3. At a young age he was obsessed with collecting and preserving dead animals. He once had the head of a seal yes the actual head. He also in his living room had a trash can made out of an elephant foot. That thing must have been heavy.
4. Because of his early physical limitations as a teenager, Roosevelt adhered to a program of gymnastics and weightlifting to build up his body. This allowed him to participate in activities, and helped lessen the effects of his asthma. He said he dad finally got him a weight bench so he could finally work out and get big.
5. As a child, Roosevelt witnessed the Abraham Lincoln funeral procession. There is a photo of the young Roosevelt perched in a window watching the procession in New York City in April 1865. Young TR and his brother were at his grandfather’s mansion.
6. Roosevelt was the first President to win a Nobel Peace Prize. As President, Roosevelt adopted an aggressive foreign policy, but he also saw America as deserving a role as a global peacemaker. In 1906, he convinced Japan and Russia to attend a peace conference in Portsmouth, New Hampshire to end their conflict. TR was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts. Roosevelt also settled a dispute between France and Germany over the division of Morocco.
7. Theodore Roosevelt had a really, really good memory. Roosevelt claimed he had a photographic memory, but it is a statement that can’t be easily proven today. But biographer and historian Edmund Morris cited several documented cases where Roosevelt was able to recite obscure poetry and other content well over a decade after he read the documents.
8.On October 14, 1912, he was scheduled to deliver a rousing speech to a crowd in Milwaukee. Unfortunately, he encountered some trouble as he was greeting his supporters on his way to the podium. A saloon keeper named John Schrank approached Teddy, drew a pistol, and shot the former president in the chest. This would have surely been a fatal wound, were it not for Teddy’s crumpled, handwritten speech tucked in the breast pocket of his shirt; the document impeded the bullet, and Teddy only suffered a flesh wound.Then, with the bullet fragments still lodged in his torso, Teddy took to the stage and delivered the speech as promised. When he produced the blood-stained paper from his shirt, he declared, “You see, it takes more than one bullet to kill a Bull Moose”, referring to his former political party
9. Roosevelt Was a Cop. About a decade after this very bad day, Roosevelt was appointed as the police commissioner for New York City. At the time, the NYPD was considered one of the most corrupt police departments in the entire world. Once he was appointed, you could often find him walking the streets at midnight, making sure his officers were doing their jobs.
10. Theodore Roosevelt had two pets a guinea pig; who he named Father O'Grady and a snake called Emily Spinach!
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1)Valentines day in 1884 roosevelt’s mother passed away from typhoid fever in the same house his first wife Alice died 12 hours later from bright’s disease and complications from giving birth to their first child two days before “The light has gone out of my life” roosevelt wrote in his diary that night
ReplyDelete2)roosevelt early in his life had a passion for reading and writing. He wrote his first book “The Naval War of 1812” when he was 23 he earned a reputation as a historian during his lifetime Roosevelt wrote 38 books, which included an autobiography, a biography of Oliver Cromwell, a history of New York City and the series -The Winning of the West he also wrote numerous books and magazine articles about hunting and his frontier exploits
3)At the beginning of World War I, the 58 year old expresident wanted to go back to to the front lines. Roosevelt begged President Woodrow Wilson to send him to France to help
4)President Roosevelt was the first president to be commonly known for/by his initials.
5)roosevelt was the youngest president to take office at the age of 42 after President McKinley was assassinated. John F. Kennedy was the youngest president to be elected to office. He was 43 when he became president.
6)Wen he was attending Harvard a doctor there told Roosevelt that he needed to cut back on all of his physical activities. Roosevelt was told that he had a weak heart and that if he chose an active life instead of a sedentary one his choices he could die .Roosevelt didn't like that idea. Just to prove the doctor wrong Roosevelt ended up taking two guides with him and to the Matterhorn. He actually climbed it during his honeymoon.
7)Roosevelt tried to handle the issues of race and immigration, but it was clear that he had a bias for those who were different. He once said that 90% of the best Indians would be dead Indians. “The most vicious cowboy has more morals than the average Indian.”- he would be considered racist and today
8)he was a rough rider
9)he is one of the few presidents faces that are carved into mt Rushmore
10)first president to host a black man at a White House dinner
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1.While a student at Harvard, Roosevelt competed in boxing, rowing, and wrestling. Academically, he studied German, natural history, forensics, and composition. He would later graduate near the top of his class. He would enjoy physical outdoor pursuits throughout his life, and often spent time hiking, riding horses, and swimming.
ReplyDelete2. Roosevelt won the Nobel Peace Prize for his help in the making of the Treaty of Portsmouth. This happened in 1906
3. The Potomac River was one of his favorite rivers, he even would like to go skinny dipping in it which is not normal of a president.
4. It is hard enough having a love one die, but for him he had two die on the same day, his wife and mother. His mom died of typhoid fever and his wife died from Brights disease.
5. He also asked if he could lead a unit of infantry in World War 1 after being the president.
6. When he traveled to Panama that made him the first president to leave the country while in office.
7. He was only able to see out of his right eye after being injure in boxing which led to being blind in the left eye.
8. He was also the first president to fly in an airplane. The plane he flew in was made by the Wright brothers.
9. At the age of 42 he was also the youngest president in office.
10. he was shot in Wisconsin while campaigning and still finished the speech before getting help. (254) This is avery BTW
1. As a child, Roosevelt witnessed the Abraham Lincoln funeral procession. There is a photo of the young Roosevelt perched in a window watching the procession in New York City in April 1865 that surfaced in the 1950s. Young TR and his brother were at his grandfather’s mansion.
ReplyDelete2. Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt were fifth cousins. Eleanor Roosevelt was Theodore’s niece. And Uncle Theodore presented the bride at Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt’s wedding.
3. Roosevelt was a grad college dropout. While Roosevelt graduated from Harvard, he left law school at Columbia without receiving a degree. Roosevelt had become focused on local politics and lost interest in a legal career.
4. Roosevelt was a prolific writer. Aided by his excellent memory and his always-high energy level, TR wrote about 35 books in his lifetime and an estimated 150,000 letters.
5. While on a hunting trip as President, guides in Mississippi had arranged for Roosevelt to shoot an old bear they had tied to a tree. Roosevelt refused to do so, on sporting grounds. (Instead, he had someone else shoot the bear.) The first part of the incident became a newspaper cartoon, which then inspired a shopkeeper to sell stuffed bears, with Roosevelt’s permission.
6. Roosevelt was appointed as the police commissioner for New York City. At the time, the NYPD was considered one of the most corrupt police departments in the entire world. Once he was appointed, you could often find him walking the streets at midnight, making sure his officers were doing their jobs.
7. While serving as President, Roosevelt would find the confines of the White House to be a bit stuffy. He would often escape so that he could take a long, quiet walk along the Potomic River.
8. Roosevelt attempted to straddle the issues of race and immigration, but it was clear that he had an internal bias for those who were different. He once said that 90% of the best Indians would be dead Indians. “The most vicious cowboy has more morals than the average Indian.”
9. While attending Harvard, a doctor there, Dr. Dudley Sargent, told Roosevelt that he needed to cut back on all of his physical activities.
10. His family called him "Teedie," in part to distinguish him from his father. The name stuck until well into his late teens. Friends began calling him "Teddy" in his college years, though it has been documented that Roosevelt didn't care for that. He preferred "TR" (411)
Top 10 most interesting facts about Teddy Roosevelt.
ReplyDelete1. His father was a successful philanthropist and businessman. His mother had been raised on a Georgia plantation.
2. He was started being called teddy while he was in college. He didn't like it at all.
3. He was stricken with asthma as a young child. He spent most of his time during inside. During his severe asthma attacks he would take him out from a job.
4. He started beginning wearing glasses at the age of 13.
5. He started to begin to take interest into weightlifting and gymnastics to help build his body. This helped his asthma to dwindle away over time.
6. His mother and grandmother were from the south but his father was from the union. Theodore sr worked for president Lincoln to help the soldiers and their families.
7. Roosevelt was homeschooled by private teachers. He also traveled to Europe with his family and the Middle East. He went to Austra,England,France, Holland,Israel and modern day Syria.
8. Roosevelt niece the daughter of his brother Elliot was the future First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. She married Franklin D. Roosevelt. Who was a distant cousin.
9. Roosevelt showed particular interest in zoology and biology which would serve him later as a outdoorsman and a rancher.
10. While a student in Harvard, Roosevelt competed in boxing, rowing and wrestling. He studied German, forensics, natural history and composition. (230 words)
1. His mother and his first wife died on the same day which happened on Valentine’s Day in 1884.
ReplyDelete2. He won the Nobel Peace Prize. The man famed for his exploits and his “Big Stick” diplomacy captured the 1906 Nobel Peace Prize for his role in playing a big role in the Treaty of Portsmouth, which ended the Russo-Japanese War.
3. On November 1906, Roosevelt made presidential history by becoming the first chief executive to leave the United States.
4. Roosevelt was a prolific author.
5. Roosevelt boxed for Harvard University’s intramural lightweight championship and continued to spar recreationally during his political career. One match left him virtually blind in one eye.
6. At the outbreak of World War I, the 58 year old ex-president volunteered to lead an infantry unit on the front lines.
7. Roosevelt was a New York City police commissioner.
8. Roosevelt once scaled the Matterhorn. While a student at Harvard, Dr. Dudley Sargent warned Roosevelt, who had been a sickly child, that, because of a weak heart, failure to lead a sedentary life could have fatal consequences. “Doctor, I’m going to do all the things you tell me not to do,” Roosevelt responded. “If I’ve got to live the sort of life you have described, I don’t care how short it is.” A year after graduation, Roosevelt took time from his European honeymoon with Alice to scale the 15,000-foot Swiss Alp with two guides.
9. He was a member of the Hasty Pudding Club.
10. Roosevelt went skinny-dipping in the Potomac River. (249 words)
1)He was a republican
ReplyDeleteHe was a former New York City police commissioner and was a popular politician 2)Unexpectedly became the 26th president after the assassination of McKinley.
McKinley was assassinated on September 6, 1901 at the temple of music by a guy named Leon with a concealed revolver.
3)He was robust and brought new energy to the White House
4)He served a second term
He was elected to a second term because of his merits.
5)He confronted the struggles between management and labor and became known as the great trust buster and break up the monopolies with the antitrust act
6)A dedicated conservationist setting aside 200 million acres for national forest
Because he was an outdoorsman who loved to hunt and fish he was involved in wildlife refuges establishing the national parks system. And setting aside large areas of wildlife habitats
7)Won Nobel peace prize
He negotiated the conflict between the Russo-Japanese war
8)Led the construction of the Panama Canal
He was the first sitting president to leave the US.
9)Went on a safari in Africa and then returned to politics in 1912
10)Failed to be elected as a leader of the new progressive party
Some of the feeling of modern progressives find their roots in roosevelts in anti big business and monopolies but the moral bankruptcy of modern progressives does not find its roots in teddy who worked hard to root out corruption in the nypd
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1. He graduated from Harvard College in 1880.
ReplyDelete2. He was Vice President under William McKinley
3. His efforts brought about the treaty between the U.S. and Panama for creating the Panama Canal and setting it up to be under U.S. control.
4. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Price in 1906 for the work he did to help end the Russo-Japanese war.
5. He is the youngest U.S. president, having been elected when he was just 42 years old.
6. The teddy bear toy that we all know and love was named after him.
7.He was the first president to travel outside the United States. He made the trip to Panama.
8. He lost the sight in one eye while boxing in the White House one day.
9. He had a photographic memory and could read an entire page in the time it took most people to read a single sentence.
10. Roosevelt felt that a canal across the Panama would be beneficial for America as a whole. After Colombia refused America’s terms of building the canal, he supported the local political class in Panama in their quest to form an independent nation.
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1. Theodore Roosevelt was A governor in New York in 1858 and the 26th (and youngest) president of the United States (he served two terms)
2. Theodore Roosevelt is remembered for his foreign policy, corporate reforms and ecological preservation as well as many other events in history.
3. Theodore Roosevelts mother, Martha and his first wife, Alice died on the same day
4. When he was little, Roosevelt was known as "Teedie," to his family members (he hated the nickname "Teddy")
5. His exercise routine consisted of boxing and lifting weights
6. He was homeschooled because of his crappy immune system and asthma
7. Teddy enrolled at Columbia Law School and got married to Alice Hathaway Lee
8. Theodore Roosevelt had had a huge interest in the Spanish-American War
9. Theodore Roosevelt walked his niece, Eleanor Roosevelt, down the aisle at her wedding, the day ended with his brother Elliot dying during the wedding
10. He was also Known for his anti-monopoly policies and ecological conservationism, Theodore Roosevelt won the Nobel Peace Prize for his part in ending the Russo-Japanese War. He died in New York on January 6, 1919. (202)
The top ten most interesting facts about teddy are:
ReplyDelete1. He was an American statesman, author, explorer, soldier, naturalist, and reformer who served as the 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909.
2. Born a sickly child with debilitating asthma, Roosevelt successfully overcame his health problems by embracing a strenuous lifestyle.
3. Home-schooled, he began a lifelong naturalist avocation before attending Harvard College.
4. He integrated his exuberant personality, vast range of interests, and world-famous achievements into a "cowboy" persona defined by robust masculinity.
5. His first of many books, The Naval War of 1812 (1882), established his reputation as both a learned historian and as a popular writer.
6. Upon entering politics, he became the leader of the reform faction of Republicans in New York's state legislature.
7. He served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy under William McKinley, resigning after one year to serve with the Rough Riders, where he gained national fame for courage during the Spanish–American War.
8. Returning a war hero, he was elected governor of New York in 1898.
9. Roosevelt campaigned vigorously across the country, helping McKinley's re-election in a landslide victory based on a platform of peace, prosperity, and conservatism.
10. After leaving office, Roosevelt went on safari in Africa and toured Europe.
1. Teddy used to go skinny-dipping in the Potomac river.
ReplyDelete2. Teddy wa so own as a outdoors person he used to take trips out on his yacht and just hang out with friends. He also would go on hiking trips with people and sometimes he would even lead them.
2. His first wife and his mom died on the same day, Valentine's Day that would be terrible. But his mom died because of typhoid fever. His wife died from Bright's disease.
3. He went on a safari in Africa after his term ended.
4. He was home schooled. He then went to college and was the valedictorian of his class.
5. He went to Colombia law school. And married his wife Alice Hathaway lee.
6. He wrote his first book "the naval war of 1812" in 1882 which helped establish his rep and his knowledge of history.
7. He was also the first president to ever travel outside of the United States. He went to panama Because of the Panama Canal
8. He was shot in Wisconsin while giving a speech
9. He was elected governor of New York in 1898
10. He was born with asthma and it was so bad he couldn't play sports and was so set on working to overcome it he worked out constantly and tried out boxing and he overcame his asthma later. (230)
1. Theodore Roosevelt had an incredibly good memory. It was claimed he had actually had a photographic memory, but this is a claim that is regularly disputed. However, there are several documented cases where Roosevelt could recite content and over a decade after he originally read them.
ReplyDelete2. Roosevelt was present the Abraham Lincoln funeral procession when he was a child in 1865. The photo proving this surfaced in the 1950s and shows him and his brother were in the window of his grandfather’s mansion watching the procession.
3. Though he was aggressive about foreign policy, he was also considered a peacemaker. He served as the negotiator in the Russo-Japanese and was able to convince Japan and Russia to attend a peace conference in 1906, in Portsmouth, New Hampshire to end their conflict. Because of this, TR was the first American and first President awarded the Nobel Prize.
4. Roosevelt was a Sunday school teacher but believed strongly in the separation of Church and State. When he took his oath of office, he did not swear on the Bible.
5. Not only did Roosevelt have a really, really good memory and love to read, he was a copious writer. Thanks to his high energy level, Teddy wrote not only an autobiography, but approximately 35 books and an estimated 150,000 letters.
6. TR suffered a detached retina in 1908 after becoming blind in one eye due to a boxing injury in the White House. He later switched to jiu-jitsu and became a black belt.
7. While in office, Roosevelt was the first president to travel outside of the continental United States, traveling to Panama in 1906.
8. Roosevelt was known to go skinny-dipping in the Potomac River during the wintertime.
9. Roosevelt took a four minute flight in a plane built by the Wright brothers on October 11, 1910. This made him first president to fly in an airplane.
10. “Ladies and gentlemen, I don’t know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot,” Roosevelt said, “but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose.” On October 14, 1912, Roosevelt was shot by a local shop-keeper while giving a speech on his campaign in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The bullet was lodged in his chest after passing through a pocket holding his steel eyeglass case and his 50-page speech – which had been folded in half. He declined treatment following the incident and continued to give his 90-minute speech while blood seeped from the wound into his shirt.
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10. Roosevelt was the first president to travel outside of the continental United States while in office. In 1906, he traveled to Panama to oversee the construction of the Panama Canal
ReplyDelete9. Over the course of his life, Roosevelt worked many jobs, including, cattle rancher, deputy sheriff, historian, naturalist, explorer, author of 35 books, police commissioner, assistant Secretary of the Navy, governor of New York, war hero, lawyer, and, of course, President.
8. As the first conservationist president, he spearheaded the creation of the United States Forest Service, and established five new national parks. He was responsible for the start of the Wildlife Refuge system. During his administration, 42 million acres were set aside as national forests, wildlife refuges, and areas of special interest (such as the Grand Canyon).
7. Teddy's face is carved on Mt. Rushmore, along with the father of our country, the author of the Declaration of Independence, and Honest Abe. In a way, stating that what he contributed to our country is equal to what they contributed.
6. His mother and his first wife died on the same day. On Valentine’s Day in 1884, Roosevelt’s mother passed away from typhoid fever. One floor above in the same house, his first wife, Alice, died less than 12 hours later from Bright’s disease and complications from giving birth to the couple’s first child just two days before. “The light has gone out of my life,” Roosevelt wrote in his diary that night.
5. While a student at Harvard, Dr. Dudley Sargent warned Roosevelt, who had been a sickly child, that, because of a weak heart, failure to lead a sedentary life could have fatal consequences. “Doctor, I’m going to do all the things you tell me not to do,” Roosevelt responded. “If I’ve got to live the sort of life you have described, I don’t care how short it is.” From then on, he lived an active life, from scaling the Matterhorn, to skinny dipping in the Potomac River, to fighting in the Spanish-American war, and becoming president. However, the doctor's warning was true, and Teddy died in his sleep of a heart clot at the age of 60.
"Death had to take him sleeping," said Vice President Thomas R. Marshall. "For if Roosevelt had been awake, there would have been a fight."
4. Teddy won the 1906 Nobel Peace Prize for his role in mediating the Treaty of Portsmouth, which ended the Russo-Japanese War. Roosevelt was the first American to capture the award, and he used the prize money to fund a trust to promote industrial peace.
3. While on a hunting trip as President, guides in Mississippi had arranged for Roosevelt to shoot an old bear they had tied to a tree. Roosevelt refused to do so, on sporting grounds. (Instead, he had someone else shoot the bear.) The first part of the incident became a newspaper cartoon, which then inspired a shopkeeper to sell stuffed bears, with Roosevelt’s permission. The bears became known as "Teddy" bears.
2. Roosevelt was a collage grad dropout. While he did graduate from Harvard, he left law school at Columbia without receiving a degree. Roosevelt had become focused on local politics and lost interest in a legal career.
(As it turns out, there is a character limit of 4,096 and my post exceeds that limit, so I will post it in two parts.)
And now, the coolest, most interesting, most unbelievable fact about Theadore Roosevelt, one that accurately depicts what kind of a man he was:
ReplyDelete1. On October 14, 1912, Roosevelt was campaigning in Milwaukee, Wisconsin when a local saloon-keeper, named John Schrank, shot him. Whorls have killed him, had it not first passed through a jacket pocket containing his steel eyeglass case and a copy of his 50 page speech which had been folded in half. Roosevelt declined immediate treatment and proceeded to give his 90 minute speech with blood seeping from the wound into his shirt. His first words after this were quite profound and “Friends, I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible. I don’t know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot,” Roosevelt said, “but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose.” Later on in the speech, he said, "And now, friends, I want to take advantage of this incident to say a word of solemn warning to my fellow countrymen. First of all, I want to say this about myself: I have altogether too important things to think of to feel any concern over my own death..."
Roosevelt was a man dedicated to his country, and to its people. He went above and beyond the call of duty, overcoming hardships and pain with steadfast resolve and a patriotic spirit. He was a great man, and even more amazing, he was a truly great President.
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