<span>Many city dwellers crowded into multifamily, often unsanitary, settlement houses is </span>true.
Roosevelt had a specific goal with the Big Stick Diplomacy.
When Teddy says "Speak softly...and carry a big stick."
He talks about an unspoken threat of an extremely powerful military.
He would use this in MANY foreign policy situations, and it worked.
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Totalitarian government is very controlling
They developed an extensive system of paved stone roads