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TR the Rough Rider at San Juan Hill
Before becoming president Theodore Roosevelt was the Assistant Secretary of the Navy. In which he reassigned in 1898 with the rough riders, the first voluntary cavalry in the Spanish-American War. He brought together a diverse group of cowboys, miners, law enforcement officials, and Native Americans to join the Rough Riders. They charged across a valley to assist in the seizure of San Juan Ridge, the highest point which is San Juan Hill. -
Coal Strike
The coal strike was a strike in the United Mine Workers of America in the anthracite coalfields of eastern Pennsylvania. Miners striked for higher wages, shorter workdays, and the recognition of the Union. -
National Reclamation Act
Congress passed the National Reclamation Act. The Act required that water users repay construction cost from which they received benefit. Roosevelt supported the reclamation movement because of his personal experience in the west, and because he believed in homemaking. -
TR 1st time named President
Theodore Roosevelt became the 26th president of the United States, after the assassination of William McKinley. In which he brought new energy to the white house. He was a leader of the progressive movement, and championed his "Square Deal" domestic polices, promising the average citizen fairness, breaking of trusts, regulation of railroads, and pure food and drugs. -
Yosemite under Federal Control
John Muir, a naturalist and writer with whom Roosevelt camped in California’s Yosemite National Park in 1903, persuaded the president to set aside 148 million acres of forest reserves. Roosevelt also set aside 1.5 million acres of water-power sites and another 80 million acres of land that experts from the U.S. Geological Survey would explore for mineral and water resources. Roosevelt also established more than 50 wildlife sanctuaries and several national parks. -
Elkins Act Passed
President Roosevelt signed it into law, in which the Elkins Act specifically prohibited rebates and made the railroad corporation providing the rebate, as well as the shipper receiving it, liable under the law -
TR and the Northern Securities Case
In 1902, Roosevelt made newspaper headlines as a trust buster when he ordered the Justice Department to sue the Northern Securities Company, which had established a monopoly over northwestern railroads. In 1904, the Supreme Court dissolved the
company. Although the Roosevelt administration filed 44 antitrust suits, winning a number of them and breaking up some of the trusts, it was unable to slow the merger movement in business. -
Wins Full Term as President
United States presidential election of 1904, American presidential election. In which Republican Theodore Roosevelt soundly defeated Democrat Alton B. Parker. Roosevelt’s win marked the first time that a president not originally elected to the office succeeded in retaining the presidency. -
Passage of Pure Food and Drug Act
The Pure Food and Drug Act was a key piece of Progressive Era legislation, signed by Theodore Roosevelt. It prohibited the sale of misbranded and adulterated food and drugs in interstate commerce and laid a foundation for the nation's first consumer protection agency, the Food and Drug Administration. -
Meat Inspection Act
The Meat Inspection Act of 1906, was a piece of U.S. legislation, signed by President Theodore, which prohibited the sale of adulterated or misbranded livestock and derived products as food and ensured sanitary slaughtering and processing livestock. -
Leaves Presidency, visits Africa
Roosevelt leaves the presidency and visits Africa, on a expedition, outfitted by the Smithsonian Institution, the purpose of it was to collect specimens for the Smithsonian new Natural History Museum. -
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.