Teddy Roosevelt Timeline

By Bryson Schadt

  • Theodore Roosevelt is born

    Theodore Roosevelt is born
    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.

  • Named President when McKinley is assassinated

    Named President when McKinley is assassinated
    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.

  • Energy Crisis

    Energy Crisis
    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.

  • Elkins Act passed

    Elkins Act passed
    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.

  • Pelican Island, Florida named first national wildlife refuge

    Pelican Island, Florida named first national wildlife refuge
    Created to protect egrets and other birds from extinction through plume hunting.

  • Devil's tower,Wyoming, naming first national monument

    Devil's tower,Wyoming, naming first national monument
    It encompasses 2.1 square miles and features a natural rock tower, the remnant of a volcanic intrusion now exposed by erosion.

  • Passage of Pure Food And Drug Act

    Passage of Pure Food And Drug Act
    Created to prevent the “manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious food, drugs, medications, and liquors...”

  • Yosemite under Federal Control

    Yosemite under Federal Control
    The first scenic natural area to be set aside by the United States for public benefit and appreciation of landscape beauty.

  • Leaves presidency, visits Africa

    Leaves presidency, visits Africa
    Teddy Roosevelt left the Presidential office to go on a hunt in Africa, Teddy was an avid hunter.

  • Runs for presidency, unsuccessfully for Bull-Moose Party

    Runs for presidency, unsuccessfully for Bull-Moose Party
    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.

  • Wins first full term as President

    Wins first full term as President
    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.