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Teddy Roosevelt Timeline Project

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  • Coal Strike

    Coal Strike

    A coal-miners strike begins in Pennsylvania, during the course of which 140,000 workers would leave their jobs.
  • Elkins Act passed

    Elkins Act passed

    Congress approves the Elkins Anti-Rebate Act, making it illegal for railroads to give rebates on their published freight rates.
  • Roosevelt inaugurated

    Roosevelt inaugurated

    Roosevelt is inaugurated for his first full term as President of the United States, it establishing the first eighteen national monuments, including Devils Tower, Muir Woods, and Mount Olympus.
  • Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act

    Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act

    The legislation calls for both an honest statement of food content on labels and for federal inspection of all plants engaging in interstate commerce.
  • Taft inaugurated

    Taft inaugurated

    Theodore Roosevelt leaves on a yearlong African safari in order to avoid charges that he was attempting to run the White House from the shadows.