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Theodore Roosevelt is born
Born to Martha Bulloch Roosevelt & Theodore Roosevelt Sr., in Manhattan, New York, among 2 sisters & a brother. -
Named President when McKinley is assassinated
Roosevelt became president after McKinley was assassinated, making him the youngest man to become president. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
Leaves presidency, visits Africa
Roosevelt decided not to run for third term, he decided to go on an African safari hunt- spending 11 months. -
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." -
WORKS CITED
http://www.theodoreroosevelt.org/site/c.elKSIdOWIiJ8H/b.8090799/k.C003/Home.htm
http://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/theodore-roosevelt
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1906/roosevelt-bio.html
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/President_Roosevelt_-_Pach_Bros.tif/lossy-page1-220px-President_Roosevelt_-_Pach_Bros.tif.jpg
