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What happened when Mother Jones tried to meet with President Roosevelt at Sagamore Hill? Support your answer with evidence from the text.

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According to paragraph, 29 "The president's secretary replied that the president felt that child labor was a problem for individual states to solve. "He is a brave guy when he wants to take a gun out and fight other grown people," said Mother Jones in disgust, "but when those children went to him, he could not see them."

Step-by-step explanation:

This means that Roosevelt saw Mother Jones as a threat to him.

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