Teddy Roosevelt

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  • Theodore Roosevelt is born

    Theodore Roosevelt is born

    Born in NYC to Theodore Roosevelt Sr. and Martha Stewart Bulloch
  • Yosemite becomes a federal park

    Yosemite becomes a federal park

    Yosemite's lad grant became true and finally became a national park.
  • McKinley is assassinated, Roosevelt becomes president

    McKinley is assassinated, Roosevelt becomes president

    McKinley is shot, got better but took a turn for the worse and succumbed to his injuries. Roosevelt as Vice President becomes President.
  • Energy Crisis

    Energy Crisis

    The Energy Crisis is the Coal Strike of 1902
  • Elkins Act passed

    Elkins Act passed

    The Act authorized the Interstate Commerce Commission to impose heavy fines on railroads that offered rebates.
  • Pelican Island

    Pelican Island

    onMarch 14, President Theodore Roosevelt established Pelican Island in the Indian River Lagoon as the first federal wildlife refuge giving birth to the National Wildlife Refuge System.
  • Theodore Roosevelt wins presidency

    Theodore Roosevelt wins presidency

    Incumbent Republican President Theodore Roosevelt defeated the Democratic nominee, Alton B. Parker. Roosevelt's
  • Devil’s Tower, Wyoming, named first national monument

    Devil’s Tower, Wyoming, named first national monument

  • Pure Food and Drug Act

    Pure Food and Drug Act

    The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 banned the sale of misbranded or altered food and drugs.
  • Roosevelt leaves presidency and visits Africa

    Roosevelt leaves presidency and visits Africa

    Its purpose was to collect specimens for the Smithsonian's new Natural History museum, now known as the National Museum of Natural History
  • Runs for presidency, unsuccessfully for Bull-Moose Party

    Runs for presidency, unsuccessfully for Bull-Moose Party

    Woodrow Wilson wins against Theodore Roosevelt and William H. Taft