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Theodore Roosevelt is born
He was born in New York City, New York. He had 3 siblings, he was the 2nd of the four. His mothers name was Martha Stewart "Mittie" Bulloch and his fathers name was Theodore Roosevelt Sr. His youth was shaped around his poor health, he had very bad asthma and would often have night asthma attacks. After being man handled by two older boys, he found a boxing coach to teach him how to fight. -
Returns from the Spanish-American War as a hero
America had become interested in Cuba's liberation in the 1890s as publications portrayed the evil of Spanish Rule. No one favored Cuban independence more than Roosevelt. As Assistant Secretary of the Navy, he beat the war drum and prepared the Navy for war with Spain. -
Named President when McKinley is assassinated
Present William McKinley was shot fatally on September 6, 1901, inside the Temple of Music in Buffalo, New York by Leon Czolgosz. Teddy Roosevelt was at the time was the vice president, so he stepped up and took the position of President of the United States. -
Energy crisis
Miners were on strike asking for higher wages, shorter workdays and the recognition of their union. The strike threatened to shut down the winter fuel supply to all major cities. Roosevelt became involved and set up a fact finding commission that suspended the strike. The strike never resumed because the miners received a 10% wage increase and reduced workdays from ten to nine hours, the owners got a higher price for coal. -
Elkins Act passed
United States federal law that amended the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887. The Act authorized the Interstate Commerce Commission to impose heavy fines on railroads that offered rebates, and upon the shippers that accepted these rebates. The railroad companies were not permitted to offer rebates. Railroad corporations, their officers, and their employees, were all made responsible for discrimination. -
Pelican Island, Florida named first national wildlife refuge
Located just off the western coast in Sebastian, Florida.The refuge consists of a 3-acre island that includes an additional 2.5 acres of surrounding water. Pelican Island was the first national wildlife refuge in the United States. It was created to protect egrets and other birds from extinction through plume hunting. -
Yosemite under Federal Control
Roosevelt loved nature and wanted to do whatever he could to preserve it. He made Yosemite national park a preserved place where no one could mess with the wildlife or mess with/ cut down any of the trees. -
Wins first full term as President
The election of 1904 Roosevelt went up against Alton B. Parker and won by a landslide, he swept every region in the nation except for the south. Roosevelt won the election by more than 2 1/2 million popular votes, no president before had won by so much. He became the first person to win presidency after being named president because of the assassination of the former president he was vice president to. -
Passage of Pure Food And Drug Act
Pure Food and Drug Act, prevented the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated, misbranded, poisonous, deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes. -
Devil’s Tower, Wyoming, named first national monument
Devils tower is located in Hulett, Wyoming, in the middle of flat plains. It is a huge erosion of rock that formed. It is concerned sarced to the Lakota tribe and many other tribes that derive from that area. -
Leaves presidency, visits Africa
Theodore Roosevelt declined to run again for the presidency in 1908. He anointed William Howard Taft, his close friend and Secretary of War as his successor. Taft easily won the election defeating William Jennings Bryan in his third and final attempt to gain the Oval Office. Immediately following Taft's inauguration in 1909, T.R. set out for Africa to hunt big game and collect specimens -
Runs for presidency, unsuccessfully for Bull-Moose Party
Roosevelt did not like what Taft was doing to everything he has just done. Taft fired Gilfford Pinshot (Chief of the United States Forest Service from 1905), which was someone who Roosevelt elected, Taft also gave back some of the land Roosevelt had reserved. Roosevelt decided to split the republic party and try to run for presidency again and was unsuccessful because of the party split.
