acquired Alaska for the United States, many thought it was his folly, until they found oil and gold

elected vice president in 1900, then president, bully pulpit, used the muckrakers to get his policies through

was the first Jewish member of the Supreme Court, Taft didn’t want him, but Wilson used him as his progressive advisor.

The biggest scandal under President Hoover was the Teapot Dome Affair of 1930.

Jane Addams, founder of the settlement house movement, stated:

The Zimmerman telegram, sent to the Mexican government from the White House, was intercepted by the Germans.

As a result of the Scopes trial:

Many immigrant groups in the United States supported the Central Powers in the European war. 

Theodore Roosevelt helped lead the Rough Riders in the Cuban campaign of the Spanish-American War.

Theodore Roosevelt gave Muckrakers their name.