Name:______________________________________
Date:________________
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Match each term to it's sentence.
He also ____ Roosevelt when he attempted to break up U.S. Steel, a trust that Roosevelt had approved while President.
As secretary of war, Taft became Roosevelt's chief ____ and ____, assisting him in the Portsmouth Peace negotiations, and in establishing a ____ in Cuba.
He spent his boyhood in Cincinnati, Ohio, trying to live up to the high expectations of his demanding parents, especially his father, Alphonso Taft, who was a ____ Cincinnati attorney and a prominent Republican who served as secretary of war and then attorney general under President Ulysses Grant and was U.S. ambassador to Austria-Hungary and Russia under President Chester Arthur.
In foreign affairs, Taft continued Roosevelt's goal of expanding U.S. foreign trade in South and Central America, as well as in Asia, and he termed his policy "____."
He believed that independence could only come to the undeveloped nation after a long period of U.S. ____ and protection.
He studied law at the University of Cincinnati and entered private practice while also holding several local ____ positions.
Nevertheless, Taft's character preferred ____ administration over presidential activism.
As secretary of war, Taft became Roosevelt's chief ____ and ____, assisting him in the Portsmouth Peace negotiations, and in establishing a ____ in Cuba.
As secretary of war, Taft became Roosevelt's chief ____ and ____, assisting him in the Portsmouth Peace negotiations, and in establishing a ____ in Cuba.
His tendency to contemplate every side of an issue served him well as chief justice but rendered him indecisive and ____ as President.