Study Questions. 1. Describe McKinley's boyhood surroundings and what he liked to do. 2. What made him fall ill? 3. How did he answer Lincoln's call for troops? 4. What effect did army life have on his health? 5. What did he do after the war? 6. To what public office was he elected? 7. Why did the Cubans revolt against Spain? 8. How did the Spaniards attempt to crush the revolt? 9. What did the Americans do to relieve the suffering of the Cubans? 10. What did they want to do? 11. How did the sinking of the Maine affect Americans? 12. What did the United States demand of Spain? 13. Describe Dewey's action at Manila. 14. What state led in the number of volunteers? 15. What were the "Rough Riders"? 16. What happened at Santiago? 17. What finally brought peace proposals from Spain? 18. Why had the war been fought? 19. What did the Americans do in the Philippines? 20. What other islands came into American possession? 21. What happened in Cuba? 22. When and in what city was President McKinley assassinated?
Suggested Readings. Stratemeyer, American Boy's Life of William McKinley; Morris, The War with Spain, 150-169, 180-214, 267-285; Barrett, Admiral George Dewey, 55-152, 230-251; Ross, Heroes of Our War with Spain.
THE MAN WHO WAS THE CHAMPION OF DEMOCRACY
THEODORE ROOSEVELT, THE TYPICAL AMERICAN
Of Dutch descent
185. Theodore Roosevelt as a Boy. Although the son of a rich man, Roosevelt both as boy and man was most democratic. One of his forefathers, Klaes Martensen van Roosevelt, came from Holland to New York in the steerage of a sailing vessel, a most lowly way to travel. This was long ago, before Peter Stuyvesant was governor of New Netherland, as New York colony was then called.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT