Roosevelt served a second term, then left the White House in 1909. He visited the construction site in 1906, but it wouldn’t officially open until five years after he left office, in 1914. He also continued to oversee construction of the Panama Canal, a waterway connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans across Central America. president and first American to win the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in negotiating an end to a war between Russia and Japan. In fact in 1905, he became the first U.S. Roosevelt was a problem solver when other countries had disagreements. He created the United States Forest Service and established 150 national forests, 51 federal bird reserves, four national game preserves, and five national parks during his time in office. He also made conservation a top priority during his administration. (For instance, if a company is the only company that sells beef, then that company can charge as much as they want and pay workers as little as they want.) Roosevelt became known as a "trustbuster" for breaking up these monopolies. Trusts had become so powerful that people were suffering from high prices, low wages, and poor working conditions. Also called trusts, these monopolies controlled the railroad, beef, oil, and other industries. He immediately focused on monopolies, which is when several companies join together and become so powerful that the new company doesn’t have any competition. TEDDY THE TRUSTBUSTERįollowing McKinley’s assassination in 1901, Roosevelt became the 26th president of the United States. But barely six months into McKinley’s second term, the president was assassinated by an angry citizen at a fair. In 1901, Roosevelt was elected to serve as vice president to President William McKinley after his vice president passed away. Roosevelt’s popularity after the war helped get him elected governor of New York in 1899. These "Rough Riders" became famous for their charge near San Juan Hill in Cuba, where they fought to help the island gain independence from Spain. When the Spanish-American War broke out in 1898, Roosevelt formed a volunteer company of cowboys, college football players, New York City police officers, and Native Americans. He remarried, took up writing, and re-entered public service. In the fall of 1886 Roosevelt returned to New York. That’s when he developed a love of the outdoors that would continue throughout his presidency. Roosevelt moved to the western United States and worked as a cowboy and a rancher. Roosevelt’s mother and wife both died from illnesses on Valentine’s Day in 1884. Roosevelt graduated with honors, married, and became a member of New York’s state assembly. By the time Roosevelt attended Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he was fit enough to compete in the college’s boxing program. Finally his father encouraged him to improve his health through physical exercise.
During his childhood, Roosevelt had asthma and was often sick, so he went to school at home. Theodore Roosevelt was born on October 27, 1858, to a wealthy New York family.
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