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Roosevelt was a leader of the progressive movement and championed his "Square Deal" domestic policies, promising the average citizen fairness, breaking of trusts, regulation of railroads, and pure food and drugs. -
Roosevelt campaigned vigorously and the McKinley V. Roosevelt ticket won a landslide victory based on a platform of victory, peace, and prosperity. Roosevelt assumed the presidency at age 42 after McKinley was assassinated. -
Roosevelt attempted to persuade the union to end the strike with a promise that he would create a commission to study the causes of the strike and propose a solution. -
The Elkins Act prohibits railroad companies from giving rebates to businesses that ship large quantities of goods, this gives power to those businesses to artificially lower shipping prices. -
Created to protect egrets and other birds from extinction through plume hunting. -
It encompasses 2.1 square miles and features a natural rock tower, the remnant of a volcanic intrusion now exposed by erosion. -
Created to prevent the “manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious food, drugs, medications, and liquors...” -
The first scenic natural area to be set aside by the United States for public benefit and appreciation of landscape beauty. -
Teddy Roosevelt left the Presidential office to go on a hunt in Africa, Teddy was an avid hunter. -
The Progressive Party was popularly nicknamed the "Bull Moose Party" when Roosevelt boasted that he felt "strong as a bull moose" after losing the Republican nomination. -
He promised recovery with a "New Deal" for the American people, Roosevelt won by a landslide in both the electoral and popular votes, carrying every state outside of the Northeast and receiving the highest percentage of the popular vote of any Democratic nominee up to that time.