USA HISTORY

WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900

ROBBER BARONS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who became president after William McKinley was assassinated?
A
Andrew Johnson
B
Franklin Roosevelt
C
Ulysses Grant
D
Teddy Roosevelt
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The biography for President Roosevelt and past presidents is courtesy of the White House Historical Association. With the assassination of President William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, not quite 43, became the 26th and youngest President in the Nation’s history (1901-1909).

Detailed explanation-2: -A Republican, he ran for and won by a landslide a four-year term in 1904. He was succeeded by his protégé and chosen successor, William Howard Taft.

Detailed explanation-3: -Theodore Roosevelt was at the Isle La Motte home of former Lt. Gov. Nelson Fisk on Sept. 6, 1901, when he learned President William McKinley had been shot and seriously wounded in Buffalo, New York.

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