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Roosevelt faced many labor issues in his time during presidency. In 1935 and 1936 the United States  economic conditions began to improve. The Federal Reserve started to raise interest rates making it that much harder companies to expand and for people  to borrow money. This making unemployment go up 20% and nearly all the money and production was gone.

Another labor issue Teddy went through was that citizens did not have appropriate programs. So Roosevelt launched an aggressive campaign in 1935 to solve all the problems. It was known as the second new deal, which added social security and the other programs to the United States.

The other deal that Teddy made to help with the labor issues was the Square Deal. This deal kept big businesses powerful and wealthy but also took away the control they had over smaller companies. With him allowing big companies to stay open it allowed more people to be employed which improved the economy.

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Theodore Roosevelt: Domestic Affairs | Miller Center

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When Theodore Roosevelt took the oath of office in September 1901, he presided over a country that had changed significantly in recent decades. The population of the United States had almost doubled from 1870 to 1900 as immigrants came to U.S. cities to work in the country’s burgeoning factories. As…

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Teddy earned himself a big part in the international relations. This is because president McKinley named him the hero of the battle at San Juan. With Roosevelt's huge help with the win in the Spanish American war, it was the beginning of the American empire and as well the turning point for the American foreign policy.

Teddy believed that America should take a step inside of exporting goods. He knows that the goods that America has to offer would have such a big impact on the rest of the world. Roosevelt also ended isolationism that had dominated the country for many years since the mid 1800's.

Another way that Theodore found himself in international relations is that he ended up making agreement terms between the Russian and Japanese war. At this time Roosevelt had become president when McKinley had been assassinated. Both sides of the war against talking to each other, so he made a peace treaty for both countries to sign. With the war ending Teddy had received the Nobel Peace Prize and showed the rest of the world the growth of America's impact in global affairs.

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Theodore Roosevelt inherited an empire-in-the-making when he assumed office in 1901. After the Spanish-American War in 1898, Spain ceded the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Guam to the United States. In addition, the United States established a protectorate over Cuba and annexed Hawaii. For the first time in its history, the United States had acquired an overseas empire. As President, Roosevelt wanted to increase the influence and prestige of the United States on the world stage and make the country a global power. He also believed that the exportation of American values and ideals would have an ennobling effect on the world. TR's diplomatic maxim was to "speak softly and carry a big stick," and he maintained that a chief executive must be willing to use force when necessary while practicing the art of persuasion. He therefore sought to assemble a powerful and reliable defense for the United States to avoid conflicts with enemies who might prey on weakness. Roosevelt followed McKinley in ending the relative isolationism that had dominated the country since the mid-1800s, acting aggressively in foreign affairs, often without the support or consent of Congress.

Philippines

One of the situations that Roosevelt inherited upon taking office was governance of the Philippines, an island nation in Asia. During the Spanish-American War, the United States had taken control of the archipelago from Spain. When Roosevelt appointed William Howard Taft as the first civilian governor of the islands in 1901, Taft recommended the creation of a civil government with an elected legislative assembly. The Taft administration was able to negotiate with Congress for a bill that included a governor general, an independent judiciary, and the legislative assembly.

Panama Canal

The most spectacular of Roosevelt's foreign policy initiatives was the establishment of the Panama Canal. For years, U.S. naval leaders had dreamed of building a passage between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through Central America. During the war with Spain, American ships in the Pacific had to steam around the tip of South America in two-month voyages to join the U.S. fleet off the coast of Cuba. In 1901, the United States negotiated with Britain for the support of an American-controlled canal that would be constructed either in Nicaragua or through a strip of land-Panama-owned by Colombia. In a flourish of closed-door maneuvers, the Senate approved a route through Panama, contingent upon Colombian approval. When Colombia balked at the terms of the agreement, the United States supported a Panamanian revolution with money and a naval blockade, the latter of which prevented Colombian troops from landing in Panama. In 1903, the Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty with Panama gave the United States perpetual control of the canal for a price of $10 million and an annual payment of $250,000.

When he visited Panama in 1906 to observe the building of the canal, Roosevelt became the first U.S. President to leave the country during his term of office. He wanted to see the spectacle, which became known as one of the world's greatest engineering feats. Nearly 30,000 workers labored ten-hour days for ten years to build the $400-million canal, during which time American officials were able to counteract the scourge of Yellow Fever that had ravaged large numbers of canal workers. The Panama Canal was finally completed in 1914; by 1925, more than 5,000 merchant ships had traversed the forty miles of locks each year. Once operational, it shortened the voyage from San Francisco to New York by more than 8,000 miles. The process of building the canal generated advances in U.S. technology and engineering skills. This project also converted the Panama Canal Zone into a major staging area for American military forces, making the United States the dominant military power in Central America.

Roosevelt Corollary

Latin America consumed a fair amount of Roosevelt's time and energy during his first term as President. Venezuela became a focus of his attention in 1902 when Germany and Britain sent ships to blockade that country's coastline. The European nations had given loans to Venezuela that the Venezuelan dictator refused to repay. Although both Germany and Britain assured the Americans that they did not have any territorial designs on Venezuela, Roosevelt felt aggrieved by their actions and demanded that they agree to arbitration to resolve the dispute. Santo Domingo (now the Dominican Republic) also encountered problems with European countries. Again, European investors had appealed to their governments to collect money from a debt-ridden nation Latin American nation. After the Dominican government appealed to the United States, Roosevelt ordered an American collector to assume control of the customs houses and collect duties to avoid possible European military action.

During the Santo Domingo crisis, Roosevelt formulated what became known as the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine. The Monroe Doctrine, issued in 1823, stated that the United States would not accept European intervention in the Americas. Roosevelt realized that if nations in the Western Hemisphere continued to have chronic problems, such as the inability to repay foreign debt, they would become targets of European invention. To preempt such action and to maintain regional stability, the President drafted his corollary: the United States would intervene in any Latin American country that manifested serious economic problems. The corollary announced that the United States would serve as the "policeman" of the Western Hemisphere, a policy which eventually created much resentment in Latin America.

Peacemaker

Though often recognized for the aggressiveness of his foreign policy, Roosevelt was also a peacemaker. His most successful effort at bringing belligerent powers to the negotiating table involved a crisis that had broken out in East Asia. Fighting had erupted between Russia and Japan in 1904, following Japan's attack on the Russian fleet at Port Arthur. As the Russo-Japanese War raged on with many Japanese victories, Roosevelt approached both nations about mediating peace negotiations. The President longed for a world in which countries would turn to arbitration instead of war to settle international disputes, and he offered his services to this end. Although Russia and Japan initially refused his offer, they eventually accepted his "good offices" to help negotiate a peace, meeting with Roosevelt in 1905 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. For his role as mediator, Roosevelt won the Nobel Prize for Peace, the first U.S. President to do so. Roosevelt also arbitrated a dispute between France and Germany over the division of Morocco. Britain had recognized French control over Morocco in return for French recognition of British control in Egypt. Germany felt excluded by this agreement and challenged France's role in Morocco. Although the French had a weak claim to Morocco, the United States could not reject it without rejecting Britain's claim as well. The settlement in 1906 reached at Algeciras, Spain, saved face for Germany but gave France undisputed control over Morocco; it also paved the way for British control over Egypt. Some historians think that Roosevelt's intervention in these two hot spots averted fighting that might have engulfed all of Europe and Asia in a world war. In any case, Roosevelt's actions greatly strengthened Anglo-French ties with the United States.

Great White Fleet

Roosevelt believed that a large and powerful Navy was an essential component of national defense because it served as a strong deterrent to America's enemies. During his tenure as President, he built the U.S. Navy into one of the largest in the world, by convincing Congress to add battleships to the fleet and increasing its number of enlisted men. In 1907, he proposed sending the fleet out on a world tour. His reasons were many: to show off the "Great White Fleet" and impress other countries around the world with U.S. naval power; to allow the Navy to gain the experience of worldwide travel; and to drum up domestic support for his naval program. In December 1907, a fleet of sixteen battleships left Hampton Roads, Virginia, and traveled around the world, returning home fourteen months later in February 1909.

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Theodore Roosevelt: Foreign Affairs | Miller Center

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Theodore Roosevelt inherited an empire-in-the-making when he assumed office in 1901. After the Spanish-American War in 1898, Spain ceded the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Guam to the United States. In addition, the United States established a protectorate over Cuba and annexed Hawaii. For the first time in its history, the United States had acquired an overseas empire.

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Although Roosevelt loved his hunting, he also was a huge advocate of conversation. He has many writings of many successful trips and kills but they all resulted with him being upset with the decline of species and loss of land. In 1872 Teddy was very pleased with the government after they established the Yellow Stone National Park to protect the wildlife. He had a huge admiration from California who was a naturalist named John Muir. Muir was a man who Teddy looked to when it came to the protecting of wildlife. Muir had a huge hand in making congress create the Yosemite National Park in 1890.

After following Muir's advice, the government granted Roosevelt  the power to be able to protect timberlands as federal forests. In 1891 he closed off close to 100 million acres of forestland.  Even with Teddy being a huge conserver, he understood that much of the land had great resources. With resources that America holds, he is aware that it will majorly benefit the countries economic growth.

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Theodore Roosevelt and Conservation - Theodore Roosevelt National Park (U.S. National Park Service)

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“We have fallen heirs to the most glorious heritage a people ever received, and each one must do his part if we wish to show that the nation is worthy of its good fortune.” - Theodore Roosevelt

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Teddy Roosevelt was a big advocator of consumerism.  In 1906 a novel named the Jungle was published which explained the unhealthy, filthy conditions of the meatpacking industry. With that novel being released it angered him and he started to tighten up the rules in the country. He urged the Congress to pass the Meat Inspection Act that exact year. It allowed federal agents to inspect any meat sold across state lines and required inspection of meat plants.

Another act that was passed because of Roosevelt’s determination to better consumerism is the Pure Food and Drug Act. This banned interstate shipment of impure foods and mislabeling of food and drugs. This helped the citizens live a safer and healthier life from the dangerous drugs that were being misused. The company that was made to protect the people from companies mislabeling drugs was the FDA.

With both these acts being passed by Theodore it forever changed the way of consumer protection for now on.

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Theodore Roosevelt altered American foreign and domestic policy in ways that would influence the nation for decades to come.

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The President and his administration team earned the name of "Trustbusters". This is because of the act that Roosevelt enforces which is called the Sherman Antitrust act.  Which was put in place to break up monopolies. The government used this act to invalidate arrangements with companies that had set prices on products.

The Supreme court in 1904 ruled that the Northern Securities Company which was a big time railroad company was found as being an illegal trust. A year later the court found that other big time companies were as well illegal trusts. This being said Roosevelt still did not want to shut down all big companies because he knew that big businesses will be more efficient than smaller ones.

Teddy believed that the bad companies were the ones that bullied smaller companies or cheated the consumers. So Roosevelt supported powerful corporations as long as they did business fairly, which resulted in mix emotions among the civilization.

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When Theodore Rooseveltâ€™s first administration sought to end business monopolies, it used the Sherman Anti-Trust Act as the tool to do so. Passed after a series of large corporate mergers during the 1880s, this Act enabled government departments and private individuals to use the court system to break up any organization or contract alleged to be in restraint of trade.

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Teddy Roosevelt changed the way the world looked at America by his impact with the military. Teddy’s influence with the military was that he formed a group called the rough riders. They were formed in 1898 that stormed into battle outside Santiago, Cuba. With his help the United States won this war and began to have global power over everyone else. He was named the hero of the war by the way he controlled his group of men.

An way of Teddy using military force is that he threatened the coal mine owners to listen to the workers complaints or else he will send the federal troops in to take control and have them ran by federal employees. The mine owners finally listened to him and people stayed there. Which also plays into the economy staying stable.

He was also thought of as the naval strategist. Teddy was known for the control of the military, navy, and diplomatic forces. For many years his goal was to turn the navy into a great instrument to make the US a great force.

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The Naval Strategist - Theodore Roosevelt Association