Message from @Nerthulas
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Cuba
etc
and the Panama Canal
that's probably third
Panama was what I was thinking
He did stuff in Mexico too
he can be remembered as a Regulator, for his foreign policy in making the US an Imperial power, and for building the Canal
Regulator
idts
lol
that was his main focus
That sounds like a feckless bureaucrat
domestically
He actually forged
no I don't think so
He didn't just take over something of someone elses and run it
its something you see time and again in history
Regulator sounds like a feckless inheritor
Not a forger
making an empire is one thing, but making it a cohesive system is another
one of the perennial parts of real empire building is regulation
weights and measures
If you win the territories, you aren't just regulating
things like that
TR conquered
actually he endorsed this group https://infogalactic.com/info/Simplified_Spelling_Board and would have implemented the first wave of changes on the federal level if Congress didn't explicitly put a stop to it
Roosevelt ultimately decided to rescind the order. Brander Matthews, a friend of Roosevelt and one of the chief advocates of the reform as chairman of the Simplified Spelling Board, remonstrated with him for abandoning the effort. Roosevelt replied on December 16, 1906: "I could not by fighting have kept the new spelling in, and it was evidently worse than useless to go into an undignified contest when I was beaten. Do you know that the one word as to which I thought the new spelling was wrong – thru – was more responsible than anything else for our discomfiture?" Next summer Roosevelt was watching a naval review when a press boat marked "Pres Bot" chugged ostentatiously by. The President waved and laughed with delight.
Lot of big names of the time there
yep
Mark Twain is supposedly in my family tree
nice
He was immensely famous
One of the first men to gain worldwide fame I'd say
Viral level
johnny applseed is in mine
I went to Mark twains cabin last year
my famous ancestor that I know of is Stonewall Jackson
confederate general
oh also much more recently Buffalo Bill
There's a sports figure in one of mine