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Theodore Roosevelt is born
Theodore Roosevelt is born in New York City to Theodore Roosevelt Sr. and to Martha Bulloch -
Named President when McKinley is assassinated
President McKinley is shot twice. After surviving for 8 days he later dies from disease immediately after Theodore Roosevelt is sworn in. -
Energy crisis
A great strike in the anthracite coal fields of Pennsylvania threatened a coal famine. -
Elkins Act passed
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. -
Pelican Island, Florida named first national wildlife refuge
In 1903 Teddy established the first federal bird reservation. Teddy appointed Paul Kroegel as the first warden of Pelican island. -
Wins first full term as President
Teddy Roosevelt wins first full term as president by over 2 million votes and annihilating the democrat nominee -
Yosemite under Federal Control
Yosemite park was first named a national park in 1890 but became under federal control in Teddy Roosevelt's first presidency. -
Passage of Pure Food And Drug Act
Preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes. -
Devil’s Tower, Wyoming, named first national monument
the first U.S. national monument, established in 1906 in northeastern Wyoming, near the Belle Fourche River. -
Leaves presidency, visits Africa
When Teddy was in Africa he slayed 512 beasts. After a year-long hunt he went to England and then Norway and then back to the US in 1910 -
Runs for presidency, unsuccessfully for Bull-Moose Party
Theodore is nominated after Taft's first term as president to the Bull-Moose party otherwise known as the Progressive Party. Both Taft and Roosevelt lost to Woodrow Wilson.