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TR the Rough Riders at San Juan Hill
"Rough Riders" enlisted cowboys and college men led by Roosevelt under the command of Leonard Wood. They took part in the Battle of San Juan Hill. -
TR 1st time named President
President Mckinley was assassinated and then Teddy Roosevelt became president -
Coal strike
The miners returned to work after both sides agreed to settle the strike based on the recommendations of the Anthracite Coal Commission, a body appointed by the president. The miners won a ten percent increase in pay and a nine-hour workday. This strike caused the expansion of presidential authority. -
National Reclamation Act
Pressure mounted for the Federal Government to undertake storage and irrigation projects. Congress had already invested in America's infrastructure through subsidies to roads, river navigation, harbors, canals, and railroads. Westerners wanted the Federal Government also to invest in irrigation projects in the West. -
Elkins Act passed
Elkins Act upheld the rates published by the Interstate Commerce Commission. The Act outlawed rebates and made the railroad company itself liable for punishment along with the entity receiving the refund. -
Wins first full term as President
The 1904 United States presidential election was the 30th quadrennial presidential election. The president who won the election was Incumbent Republican President Theodore Roosevelt defeated the Democratic nominee, Alton B. Parker. -
TR and the Northern Securities Case
The U.S. Supreme Court held that a holding company formed to create a railroad monopoly that broke the Sherman Antitrust Law. The government's success in the case helped set President Roosevelt's reputation as a trustbuster. -
Passage of Pure Food And Drug Act
Journalists had long reported on the unsanitary conditions of the manufacturing plants, notably those in Chicago’s meat-packing industry. But it wasn’t known until the public outcry following the publication of Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle that Congress moved on legislation that would prevent “the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs or medicines, and liquors.” President TR signed the Act into law the next day. -
Yosemite under Federal Control
President Rosevelt's three politic-free days, he had a private tour of Yosemite. Muir was a powerful voice in the realm of conservation, and his passionate ideas caught the attention of the President himself. By the third day, the president was convinced that the park needed his influence in D.C. to preserve and protect it. -
Meat inspection Act
The act prohibits the sale of contaminated or misbranded livestock and derived products as food and ensured that livestock was slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions. -
Leaves presidency, visits Africa
T.R. set out for Africa to hunt big game and collect (Shot and Killed) specimens for the Smithsonian Institution. His decision was based on his desire to leave the political stage to his successor and on his natural need for action. -
TR Runs for presidency in Bull-Moose Party
Bull Moose Party, formally Progressive Party, U.S. dissident political faction that nominated former president Theodore Roosevelt as its candidate in the presidential election of 1912; the formal name and general objectives of the party were revived 12 years later. Opposing the entrenched conservatism of the regular Republican Party, which was controlled by Pres. William Howard Taft.