Contents   Home "Barbadosed" About the Project Making Connections Shared Heritage Featured Document Source Documents Search Website Resources   Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition    Welcome to Tangled Roots 9. Theodore Roosevelt in 1883. Roosevelt was an active supporter of Civil Service Reform. Hyperlink to tr059, The Duties of American Citizenship tr058, The Curse of Civil Service Reform tr057 On the Shame of the Cities For Further Study See: Theodore Roosevelt, The Duties of American Citizenship George Washington Plunkitt, On the Shame of the Cities George Washington Plunkitt, The Curse of Civil Service Reform Return to Getting Started