THE PROGRESSIVE ERA 1900 1917
THEODORE ROOSEVELT THE PROGRESSIVES
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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True
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False
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -In 1904, TR became the first U.S. president to ride in a submarine when he climbed into a 64-foot-long Navy sub and stayed underwater for almost three hours. He even piloted it for a short while.
Detailed explanation-2: -President Theodore Roosevelt (left) and pilot Arch Hoxsey (right) seated in Hoxsey’s Wright (Co) Type AB (head on view, close-up) prior to making a flight at Kinloch Field, St. Louis, Missouri, October 11, 1910; this was the first flight of an American president.
Detailed explanation-3: -For daily wit & wisdom, sign up for the Almanac newsletter. President Harry Truman became the second U.S. president to ride underwater in a submarine. (Theodore Roosevelt was the first.)
Detailed explanation-4: -The first ever Presidential flight took place in 1943 when President Roosevelt flew on a Pan Am Boeing 314 flying boat. Photo: Harris & Ewing via Wikimedia Commons. Exactly 80 years ago today, President Franklin D. Roosevelt became the first American head of state to travel on official business by airplane.
Detailed explanation-5: -On August 22, 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt rode through the streets of Hartford in an electric automobile. Automobile production was in its early stages of development at the turn of the twentieth century and about half of America’s vehicles were electric.