Progressive Presidents
Constituted By: Sohrab Azad
Theodore Roosevelt
Teddy Roosevelt
President Theodore Roosevelt
Political Cartoon representing the people's Love for Roosevelt
Presidential Report Card
Leadership: A
Organization: A
Roosevelt's ambitious leadership came along with the organization of a predator. Most of his reform policies created a better America environmentally and internationally. Roosevelt was at heart a preservationist, but understood the need for compromise. He achieved this compromise through his conservation program, which provided for the regulated use of the nation’s wilderness. Roosevelt designated 200 million acres as national forests, mineral reserves, and potential waterpower sites, and added five national parks and eighteen national monuments to the list of protected lands. In 1908 Roosevelt created the National Conservation Commission to inventory the nation’s resources and manage their use more efficiently. He tried to attack the food industry as well as he endorsed the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act, both passed in 1906. The first act prohibited the sale of adulterated or inaccurately labeled foods and medicines, and the second established federal regulations for meatpackers and a system of inspection. He also tried to make America an international powerhouse as The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine asserted the right of the U.S. government to intervene in the affairs of Latin American countries while maintaining that European powers should stay out of Latin America. His organization was supreme compared to most presidents as he built America another story domestically and internationally.