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Theodore Roosevelt is born on October 27, 1858 and later becomes the 26th President of the United States. -
When President Mckinley is assassinated, Vice President Theodore Roosevelt becomes president. -
The Elkins Act is passed to give federal federal courts the power to end rate discrimination. -
Theodore Roosevelt named Pelican Island the first national wildlife refuge to protect brown pelicans from being slaughtered by market hunters. -
Theodore Roosevelt wins the 1904 Election. -
In 1906 President Theodore Roosevelt proclaimed Devils Tower the first national monument under the new Antiquities Act. His action made Wyoming the home of both our first national park -
The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 prohibited the sale of misbranded or adulterated food and drugs in interstate commerce and laid a foundation for the nation's first consumer protection agency, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). -
The state-controlled Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Grove came under federal jurisdiction with the rest of the park. -
Landing in Mombasa in 1909, Roosevelt spent months in the wilds of East Africa, hunting big game in parts of what are now Kenya and Uganda. -
Theodore Roosevelt asked his supporters to leave the floor of the Republican National Convention in Chicago. -
Attempted to persuade the union to end the strike with a promise that he would create a commission to study the causes of the strike and propose a solution