. A history of the United States of America, its people, and its institutions. ed as thetwenty-sixth President of the UnitedStates. He pledged himself to main-tain the policy of the late President,and began his career with a rigidobservance of the principles of CivilService Reform, refusing to makeappointments to office on any stand-ard but that of merit. His first mes-sage to Congress, in December, 1901, copyright. 1906.bycHnedinst. indicated that he thoroughly under- Theodore Roosevelt. stood the situation and would administer the duties of hishigh office with discretion and firmness. He soo
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. A history of the United States of America, its people, and its institutions. ed as thetwenty-sixth President of the UnitedStates. He pledged himself to main-tain the policy of the late President, and began his career with a rigidobservance of the principles of CivilService Reform, refusing to makeappointments to office on any stand-ard but that of merit. His first mes-sage to Congress, in December, 1901, copyright. 1906.bycHnedinst. indicated that he thoroughly under- Theodore Roosevelt. stood the situation and would administer the duties of hishigh office with discretion and firmness. He soon showedan activity in the cause of reform and a disregard of partyaffiliations that won him the admiring support of a largebody of the people. * Theodore Roosevelt was born in New York City in 1858, waseducated in the law at Harvard University, afterwards took an activepart in politics and made rapid progress in official position. He servedin the New York legislature as a reform member, was a Civil ServiceCommissioner, president of the Board of Police of New York City, and. 464 DEVELOPMENT OF THE NEW NATION. The Cuban Republic.—The island of Cuba, recentlyfreed from the power of Spain by the United States, adopted a constitution as an independent republic in 1900, and on May 20, 1902, the United States troops were with-drawn from the island, the Republic of Cuba coming intolegal existence on that day. In 1906, a revolt havingbroken out on the island which the ^^overnment was unableto suppress, the United States, in accordance with its re-served rights, intervened in the interest of peace and har-mony. Troops were sent to the island and a provisionalgovernment was established. The disorder ending, thesewere withdrawn in January, 1909, and Cuba was oncemore left to govern itself. The Isthmian Canal.—The project of making an Ameri-can ship-canal from the Atlantic to the Pacific had long beenentertained and a French company had sought to constructsuch a canal across the Isthmus