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Theodore Roosevelt Birth
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Named President when Mckinley was Assassinated
President during this time was Theodore Roosevelt -
The Coal Strike (Energy Crisis)
The Coal Strike caused a large energy strike because coal miners refused to work The Coal Strike of 1902 -
Elkin Act
The Elkins Act prohibits railroad companies from giving relates to businesses that ship large quantities of goods and giving power to those businesses to artificially lower shipping prices. -
Pelican Island
Pelican Island, the nation's most historic refuge, and the surrounding area was first inhabited by the Ais people between 2000 BCE and the mid-1600. Then, in 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt's executive order designated the island as the nation's first national wildlife refuge for the protection of nesting birds. -
Yosemite under Federal Control
Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove remained under state administration until 1906, when they were returned to federal control and incorporated in Yosemite National Park. In the Forest Reserve Act of 1891, Congress authorized presidents to proclaim permanent forest reserves on the public domain. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
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). -
Devils Tower
Devils Tower is the first recorded national monument, and is a holy site to a wide variety of indian -
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Roosevelt's Trip to Africa
Its purpose was to collect specimens for the Smithsonian's new natural history museum, now known as the National Museum of Natural History. The expedition collected around 11,400 animal specimens, which took Smithsonian naturalists eight years to catalog. -
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Teddy roosevelt's first full term
