Consider other perspectives: how might the American experience depicted in this poem differ from that of immigrants, or of African-Americans (remember, slavery was abolished
in 1865 – 5 years after this poem was published)?

d. it adversely affected american productivity

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the circumstances that justified roosevelt´s faith in george curry´s honesty, courage and loyalty were that he served under roosevelt´s rough riders during the spanish-american war and fought in the philippines.   in 1904 theodore roosevelt asked curry to accept an appointment as governor of isabela province (philippines); afterwards served in samar province(philippines) and upon returning to the united states he baecame governor of new mexico territory.