WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
ROBBER BARONS
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busting trusts
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promoting conservation and the formation of national parks
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not using his political power to fight against corporate greed.
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being on Mt. Rushmore
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Detailed explanation-1: -Roosevelt prioritized conservation and established national parks, forests, and monuments to preserve the nation’s natural resources. In foreign policy, he focused on Central America, where he began construction of the Panama Canal.
Detailed explanation-2: -Big Stick diplomacy Roosevelt was adept at coining phrases to concisely summarize his policies. “Big stick” was his catch phrase for his hard pushing foreign policy: “Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far."
Detailed explanation-3: -He is known for becoming a leading spokesman for his version of progressivism after 1890. However, author Daniel Ruddy argues in his book Theodore the Great: Conservative Crusader that Roosevelt was actually a “populist conservative” and a “Hamiltonian"-a conservative in the eighteenth century sense of the word.
Detailed explanation-4: -What was the main reason that President Theodore Roosevelt used the Big Stick policy? He wanted to show the world that the United States was a strong country. An argument made by anti-imperialists in the late 1800s was that the United States: might have to go to war over distant territories.