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Theodore Roosevelt is born
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Roosevelt is named president when McKinley is assasinated
McKinley was assassinated September 14, 1901 and Roosevelt was announced president the same day. -
Energy crisis
This is the concern that the world's demands on the limited natural resources that are used to power industrial society are becoming scarce as the demand rises. While they do occur naturally, it can take hundreds of thousands of years to replenish the stores. -
Pelican Island, Florida named first national wildlife refuge
The Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge on the Indian River Lagoon in East Central Florida became the first national refuge on this date. By the late 1800's Florida's wildlife populations, specifically bird populations were dwindling due to overhunting for plumes. -
Elkins Act passed
A 1903 United States federal law that amended the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887. The Act authorized the ICC to impose heavy fines on railroads that offered rebates, and upon the shippers that accepted these rebates. -
Roosevelt wins first full term as President
American presidential election, held on November 8, 1904, in which Republican incumbent Pres. Theodore Roosevelt soundly defeated Democrat Alton B. Parker . Roosevelt’s win marked the first time that a president not originally elected to the office succeeded in retaining the presidency. -
Yosemite under Federal Control
In 1906, the state-controlled Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Grove came under federal jurisdiction with the rest of the park. Yosemite's natural beauty is immortalized in the black-and-white landscape photographs of Ansel Adams (1902-1984), who at one point lived in the park and spent years photographing it. -
Passage of Pure Food And Drug Act
The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 prohibited the sale of misbranded or adulterated food and drugs in interstate commerce and laid a foundation for the nation's first consumer protection agency, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). -
Devil’s Tower, Wyoming, named first national monument
the first United States National Monument, confirmed by President Theodore Roosevelt. It rises 1,267 feet above the Belle Fourche River, standing 867 feet from summit to base. The summit is 5,112 feet above sea level. -
Roosevelt leaves presidency, visits Africa
Roosevelt leaves for Africa with the purpose of collecting specimens for the Smithsonian's new Natural History museum, now known as the National Museum of Natural History -
Roosevelt runs for presidency, unsuccessfully for Bull-Moose Party
The Progressive Party was a third party in the United States formed in 1912 by former president Theodore Roosevelt after he lost the presidential nomination of the Republican Party to his former protégé and conservative rival, incumbent president William Howard Taft.
