In foreign policy, he focused on Central America, where he began construction of the Panama Canal. Making conservation a top priority, he established myriad new national parks, forests, and monuments intended to preserve the nation's natural resources. Leading his party and country into the Progressive Era, he championed his 'Square Deal' domestic policies, promising the average citizen fairness, breaking of trusts, regulation of railroads, and pure food and drugs. As a leader of the Republican Party during this time, he became a driving force for the Progressive Era in the United States in the early 20th century.įollowing the assassination of President McKinley in September 1901, Roosevelt, at age 42, succeeded to the office, becoming the youngest United States President in history. Theodore 'Teddy' Roosevelt was an American statesman, author, explorer, soldier, naturalist, and reformer who served as the 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909. One can hardly guess what will happen to it in the 21st. A relatively young civilization, the United States formed in the 18th century, nearly self-destructed in the 19th century, and became the most powerful and dominant military, technological, cultural and economical civilization in the 20th. The United States of America is a world 'super-power' (which more or less means that it possesses weapons capable of destroying everything on the planet).

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