Part one of term paper
After William McKinley was assassinated in 1901, Theodore Roosevelt became our 25th President. America¹s natural resources were threatened. Species like the bison and beaver were endangered; others were extinct. Soil fertility was low and about four-fifths of prime forests had been cut down. Roosevelt expressed concern: ³...the time h ...

Part two of term paper
... was born on October 27, 1858, in New York City. Roosevelt grew up with the challenges of asthma and poor eyesight, but did not let them keep him from his passions. Summers in Roosevelt¹s childhood were spent in the country. He enjoyed collecting live animals and hunting ³specimens² to study. At age eight, after obtaining a seal¹s skull, Roosevelt and two of his cousins started the ³Roosevelt Museum of Natural History.² The skull stayed on a bookshelf in the Roosevelt household througho ...