Why did immigrants come to the us?
- Famine
- Land Shortages
- Religious or political Persecution
- More opportunities-$$
- Reunite with family
Teddy Roosevelt (TR)
- Born into a wealthy family-1858
- Had asthma as a child
- As a teen became a marksman and learned to ride horses
- Went to harvard
- Boxed and wrestled at harvard
- Served in the new york state assembly from 1882-1884
- Served as US Civil service commissioner from 1889-1895
- Commissioner of the new york city from 1895-1897
- Assisstant Secretary of Navy from 1897-1898
- Fought in the Spanish-American War in 1898 as leader of the "Rough Riders"
- Governer of New York 1898-1900
- Vice-President of the Us in 1901
- Served as President from1901-1909
- Wrote many history books
- Owned and ran a ranch in the Dakota Territory
- Peacemaker
- Mighty Hunter all the time
- TR "Trustbuster"
- "good trusts" vs "bad trusts"
- Helped pass the Elkins Act-1903
- Helped pass the meat inspection-1906
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