The Roosevelts

Education Clip: Theodore Roosevelt Childhood

Theodore Roosevelt was born in New York City in 1858 to a family of wealth and privilege. He was a boy when the Civil War broke out. The legacy TR’s family history during the Civil War and the young boy’s fragile health affected various aspects of TR’s character that influenced his foreign policy throughout his life.

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