7. Theodore Roosevelt: "Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick"

Bully on the Coal Strike of 1902 is a reader's theater play, featuring a character cast of eleven. The play is based on events of the Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902. In October 1902, a long strike by Pennsylvania coal miners has threatened the welfare of people living in the Northeast. President Teddy Roosevelt takes unusual, unprecedented action: first, by trying to mediate a settlement between the mine owners and the workers; next, by visiting the mines himself; then, by threatening to use military force. How will be avoid the crisis?