AMERICAN HISTORY  BIOGRAPHY:  THEODORE ROOSEVELT

1.  What problem did Roosevelt have as a child?
 

2.  To what political party did Roosevelt belong?
 

3.  List Roosevelt’s professions through 1898
 
 
 

4.  What happened in Havana Harbor in 1898?
 

5.  What was Roosevelt’s regiment called?
 

6.  What was his regiment’s most famous battle?
 

7.  After the Spanish-American War, Theodore Roosevelt was

elected ________________.

8.  Why was Roosevelt made Vice-President?
 

9.  What happened in Buffalo, New York on 6 September, 1901?
 

10.  Why did mine operators refuse to bargain with striking miners?
 

11.  What did the United States do in Panama, and why?
 
 

12.  What was the hardest part of building the Panama Canal?
 

13.  How did Roosevelt deal with the trusts?

14.  Who was president after Roosevelt?
 

15.  Why did Roosevelt win the Nobel Peace Prize?
 

16.  What was Roosevelt’s political party known as in the

1912 presidential election?
 

17.  Who won the presidency in 1912?
 

18.  When did the United States join the First World War?
 
 

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