Teddy Roosevelt: “The Americans when they became a nation continued even more…”

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The Americans when they became a nation continued even more successfully the work which they had begun as citizens of the several English colonies.

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Republican · New York

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Roosevelt notes the continuity of American expansion from colonial times to nationhood.

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