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The first child born to Theodore and his wife Edith. -
After about eight days, President McKinley died early on September 14 from an infection caused by a gunshot wound to the abdomen. About 13 hours after McKinley’s passing, Roosevelt privately took the oath of office at Wilcox’s house. -
The Elkins Act prohibits railroad companies from giving rebates to businesses that ship large quantities of goods and giving power to those businesses to artificially lower shipping prices. -
Roosevelt's victory made him the first president who ascended to the presidency upon the death of his predecessor to win a full term in his own right. -
John Muir was a naturalist who had been advocating for increased protections for Yosemite, as it was under threat of commercialization, overgrazing, and logging. Yosemite was a National Park and protections and regulations were administrated at the state level. Yosemite needed regulations at a federal level and the park found them in Teddy Roosevelt. -
Nearly 100 bills had been introduced in Congress to regulate food and drugs. President Roosevelt signed the Food and Drugs Act, known simply as the Wiley Act, a pillar of the Progressive era. -
Roosevelt's love of nature made him seek to set aside parts of the United States for conservation purposes. He selected Devils Tower because of its cultural and historical significance. -
Roosevelt created the National Wildlife Refuge System. While in office, he would go on to create 50 more federal bird reserves and four national game preserves within the refuge system. -
Roosevelt spent months in the wilds of East Africa, hunting big game in parts of what are now Kenya and Uganda. -
The Progressive Party was popularly nicknamed the "Bull Moose Party" when Roosevelt boasted that he felt "strong as a bull moose" after losing the Republican nomination in June 1912 at the Chicago convention.