Theodore Roosevelt's Second Speech Analysis

Teddy Roosevelt was born into a Victorian Culture and grew up during the Popular Culture. This made him approachable but also respectable. He was a Modern President but also a Progressive President. During that time, the industrial revolution had brought the nation into one large market, creating power and wealth. With a lack of governmental authority, Roosevelt used the media as a stage for all issues, the two main issues being immigration and class divides. Roosevelt’s first speech spoke of how America was a settled nation and there were immigrants who needed to be Americanized. In his second speech, he spoke of race and how we all have rights that cannot be jeopardized.
“…"Americanism" may be employed is with reference to the Americanizing of the newcomers to our shores. We must Americanize them in every way, in speech, in political ideas and principles, and in their way of looking at the
They felt threated by the diversity of cultures and views even though they benefitted from immigration. Progressives adapted through Social Darwinism which is based the around concept of Natural Law. Progressives’ focused on the absolute individual rights rooted in Natural Law. These rights became threated during the Industrial Revolution. Men where organizing production into a larger scale or corporations. This created power and wealth.
“…and have the heartiest respect for those brave and earnest men of the South who, in the face of fearful difficulties, are doing all that men can do for the betterment alike of white and of black. The attitude of the North toward the negro is far from what it should be, and there is need that the North also should act in good faith upon the principle of giving to each man what is justly due him, of treating him on his worth as a