Teddy Roosevelt Timeline

Theodore Roosevelt is born

Oct 27, 1858

Teddy Roosevelt was born on October 27th, 1858 in New York, NY. He was born into a wealthy family and was home-schooled, eventually going to Harvard.
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Named President when McKinley is assassinated

1901

The president at the time William McKinley, was assassinated while Roosevelt was vice president. He became the youngest person to become president and had only been VP for 143 days before his inaguration.
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Energy Crisis (Coal Strike)

1902

President Roosevelt called a precedent-shattering meeting because of the great strike in the coal fields in Pennsylvania. The workers wanted higher wage,shorter days,and recognition in their union. Roosevelt sided with the workers which changed the precedent that president's usually side with employers.
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Elkins Act passed

1903

Elkins Act was intended to prevent railroads from providing rebates to preferred customers. It allowed for the railroads to protect their collusive prices. Source

Pelican Island, Florida named first national wildlife refuge

Mar 14, 1903

President Roosevelt declared Pelican Island a wildlife refuge to protect brown pelicans from their extinction by market hunters. source

Wins first full term as President

1904

Roosevelt beats canidate, democratic Alton B. Parker. The win marked the first time that a president not originally elected to the office succeeded in retaining the presidency.
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Passage of Pure Food And Drug Act

1906

Prohibited the sale of misbranded or adultered food and drugs in interstate commerce. It also laid the foundation for the nation's first consumer protection agency, the Food and Drug Administration.
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Yosemite under Federal Control

Jun 11, 1906

Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove remained under state administration until 1906, when they were returned to federal control and incorporated in Yosemite National Park. In the Forest Reserve Act of 1891, Congress authorized presidents to proclaim permanent forest reserves on the public domain. source

Devil’s Tower, Wyoming, named first national monument

Sep 24, 1906

Due to lack of congressional support a different avenue of protection was sought. The Antiquities Act of 1906 offered a new opportunity for protecting the Tower. This act allowed "objects of historic or scientific interest" to be set aside by the president. source

Leaves presidency, visits Africa

Mar 23, 1909

Roosevelt and his expeditionary party leave New York for Africa. The expedition arrives in Mombasa. From there, Roosevelt and his party travel through British East Africa, the Belgian Congo, and Sudan.
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Runs for presidency, unsuccessfully for Bull-Moose Party

1912

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 nicknamed the "Bull Moose Party". It got it's name when Roosevelt boasted that he felt "strong as a bull moose" after losing.
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