The Presidency Of Theodore Roosevelt

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of any opposition, and changed the role of
the president and executive branch of US government, making it a force with
which to be reckoned.


As the first president with progressive views, Roosevelt enacted
the first regulatory laws and prosecuted big businesses who had been
violating them and others for years. Roosevelt also initiated the United
States' active interests in other countries, and began to spread the
benefits of democracy throughout the world. Before Roosevelt, the United
States was an inward-looking country, largely xenophobic to the calls of
the rest of the world, and chiefly concerned with bettering itself. As one
critic put it, "Roosevelt was the first modern president"(Knoll CD). After
Roosevelt, the United States would remain a superpower, chiefly interested
in all the world's affairs for at least a century (Barck 1).

It would be foolish to assume that Roosevelt was a fantastically
powerful individual who was able to change the course of the United ...

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credit to the fine parents who raised young Theodore.

Reconstruction's greatest (and perhaps only) accomplishment was the
establishment of a basis for industrialization. The basic destruction of
the southern agrarian process combined with the greater need for items in
the North caused the economy of the post-war United States to shift toward
the cities (Nash 576). The general aim of the Untied States had turned
toward the big cities, but was still focused on building the nation's power
from within. And along with their improvement of industry in the United
States came the spark of ingenuity that found itself in the minds of great
inventors like Edison and Bell. Once again ...

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