Timeline: Teddy Roosevelt Timeline Project

Oct 27, 1858

Theodore Roosevelt is born

Born to Martha Bulloch Roosevelt & Theodore Roosevelt Sr., in Manhattan, New York, among 2 sisters & a brother.

Sep 14, 1901

Named President when McKinley is assassinated

Roosevelt became president after McKinley was assassinated, making him the youngest man to become president.

May 12, 1902

Energy Crisis

Coal strike with 150,000 miners, major issue for country considering how important coal was at the same time resulting in Roosevelt setting up a meeting with the operators & was able to put the 5 month strike to an end.

Feb 26, 1903

Elkins Act passed

US 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.

Mar 14, 1903

Pelican Island, Florida named first national wildlife refuge

Roosevelt named Pelican Island as the first wildlife refuge in order to protect brown pelicans that were nesting on the island, first time the federal government set aside land for sake of wildlife.

Nov 8, 1904

Wins first full term as President

Roosevelt was elected to his first full term as president, Republicans emphasized his success in foreign affairs & applauded his firmness against monopolies.

Jan 1, 1906

Yosemite under federal control

Roosevelt made Yosemite a national park. Environmentalist Muir took him to the park in 1903 in hopes of putting it under federal control, Roosevelt make it happen 3 years later.

Jun 3, 1906

Passage of Pure Food And Drug Act

Act began because of Sinclair's novel "The Jungle," telling the horrors of the meat packing industry. Roosevelt read the book horrifying him, then the law was passed by the President.

Sep 24, 1906

Devil's Tower

First United States National Monument by President Theodore Roosevelt enclosing a thousand acres standing tall in Wyoming composed of igneous rock, Bear Lodge Mountains above Belle Fourche River.

Jan 1, 1908

Leaves presidency, visits Africa

Roosevelt decided not to run for third term, he decided to go on an African safari hunt- spending 11 months.

Jan 1, 1912

Runs for presidency for Bull-Moose Party

Roosevelt decided to run for third term & when he was asked if he was fit to become president again he said, "I'm as fit as a bull moose." Resulting in Roosevelt's new party being called the "Bull Moose Party."

Jan 1, 2017