President

1. How did Roosevelt’s feelings of inferiority to his father, a successful New York businessman, impact his career choice?

2. Why did Roosevelt develop a combative personality and become a “man of action” as a boy?

3. On what did Theodore focus his attention as a child?

4. How did Theodore win over the popular Alice Hathaway Lee?

5. Why did he abruptly end his political career and move to Dakota Territory in 1884?

6. According to Roosevelt himself, life out West taught him three “virtues of life in the open country,” What were these?

7. Upon returning to New York in 1886, Roosevelt married childhood friend Edith Kermit Carow. How did she affect his life?

8. Roosevelt resigned his government office post in 1898 to enlist in the army to fight in the Spanish-American War. How did this benefit him?

9. What happened that ruined Republicans’ efforts to consign TR to obscurity because he was too progressive for them as Govemor of New York?

10. Roosevelt’s “Corollary” expressed his belief in interventionism in the western hemisphere. What did it call for?

11. What did Roosevelt mean when he used the West African proverb “ speak softly and carry a big stick”?

12. What did Roosevelt consider to be the greatest achievement of his Presidency?

13.After he won election as president in 1904, Roosevelt proposed a program of “ regulation” of trusts, a benevolent view towards labor, a moderate program of uplift for blacks, and conversation.” What was this program called by Roosevelt?

14. Why did Roosevelt win the Nobel Peace Prize in 1905?

15. Explain how the “Teddy Bear” came into existence.