Teddy Roosevelt Timeline Project

  • Theodore Roosevelt is born

    Theodore Roosevelt is born

    Theodore Roosevelt was born in New York
  • Theodor Roosevelt Named President when McKinley is assassinated

    Theodor Roosevelt Named President when McKinley is assassinated

    President McKinley was assassinated and therefore Vice President Roosevelt stepped up to the presidency.
  • Energy crisis

    Energy crisis

    Coal workers have begun to get tired from working long hours and many quit. This was a cause of the low supply of coal.
  • Elkins Act passed

    Elkins Act passed

    This act opened the common railroads to the major supply industries in order to ship products.
  • Pelican Island, Florida named first national wildlife refuge

    Pelican Island, Florida named first national wildlife refuge

    This island was named the first national wildlife refuge to protect brown pelicans from being slaughtered by the meat market.
  • Wins first full term as President

    Wins first full term as President

    Republican President Theodore Roosevelt beat the Democratic nominee named Alton B. Parker.
  • Yosemite under Federal Control

    Yosemite under Federal Control

    Yosemite was placed under federal control by Roosevelt to maintain the beauty of the landscape.
  • Passage of Pure Food And Drug Act

    Passage of Pure Food And Drug Act

    This act prohibited the sale of foods that did not have an ingredients label on it or was made wrongfully.
  • Devil’s Tower, Wyoming, named first national monument

    Devil’s Tower, Wyoming, named first national monument

    Due to the influence of the Native Americans, Roosevelt made the Devil's tower to be the first National Monument of America.
  • Leaves presidency, visits Africa

    Leaves presidency, visits Africa

    Roosevelt went to Africa because he wanted to collect specimens for the Natural History Museum.
  • Runs for presidency, unsuccessfully for Bull-Moose Party

    Runs for presidency, unsuccessfully for Bull-Moose Party

    Roosevelt loses the run for the presidency