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This is when Theodore Roosevelt was born and the birth of a President that wanted change
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He wanted to run for president but he was convinced by a friend to just go for Vice President and after McKinley was assassinated he became President anyway.
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The Coal strike, was a strike by the United Mine Workers of America in the coalfields of eastern Pennsylvania. Miners struck for higher wages, shorter workdays, and the recognition of their union. The strike threatened to shut down the winter fuel supply to major American cities.
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The Elkins Act is a 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.
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President Roosevelt signed an executive order establishing Pelican Island as a federal bird reservation, the start to the national wildlife refuge system. This was the first time that the federal government set aside land for the sake of wildlife.
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He was president before but it was not a full term because he was the Vice president and took over after the president was killed
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The state controlled Yosemite the it came nder the controle of fedeql jurisdiction
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The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 prohibited the sale of misbranded food and drugs in interstate commerce and laid a foundation for the nation's first consumer protection agency, the Food and Drug Administration
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Devils Tower National Monument, also called Grizzly Bear Lodge, the first U.S. national monument,
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Teddy Roosevelt left for Africa to get specimens for the Smithsonian Museum
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He ran for president in a Progressive Party that was a third party called Bull-Moose Party and ended up loosing to Democratic Governor Woodrow Wilson
