American History: Teddy Roosevelt Leads Nation After Killing of McKinley
04 August 2010
A drawing of the shooting of President William McKinley on September 6, 1901
BOB DOUGHTY: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION – American history in VOA Special English.
In September of nineteen hundred and one, President William McKinley was assassinated. His vice president, Theodore Roosevelt, was sworn in to replace him.
Roosevelt was forty-two years old -- the youngest man ever to hold the office of president of the United States.
This week in our series, Maurice Joyce and Shep O’Neal tell the story of President Theodore Roosevelt and his administration.
MAURICE JOYCE: Theodore Roosevelt became president at the beginning of the twentieth century. It was a time of rapid changes in American society. The changes were a result of technology.
Great progress had been made, for example, in transportation. Almost every American city had a street railroad, or trolley. These systems were powered by electricity. Thousands of Americans owned automobiles. And Henry Ford was planning a low-cost version which even more people could buy.
Great progress had been made in communications. There were telephones in almost every business office in the cities and in many homes. And Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi had sent the first wireless message across the Atlantic Ocean.
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