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The birth or Andrew Carnegie
Teddy Roosevelt was born October 27, 1858 at 28 East 20th Street in Manhattan. -
TR the Rough Rider at San Juan Hill
U.S. ground troops were the Theodore Roosevelt-led Rough Riders, a collection of Western cowboys and Eastern blue bloods officially known as the First U.S. Voluntary Cavalry. ... Although El Caney was not secure, some 8,000 Americans pressed forward toward San Juan Hill. -
Teddy Roosevelt 1st time named President
After Vice President Garret Hobart died in 1899, the New York state party leadership convinced McKinley to accept Roosevelt as his running mate in the 1900 election. Teddy Roosevelt took office as vice president in 1901 and became president at age 42 after McKinley was assassinated the following September. -
Coal strike
The Coal strike was a strike by the United Mine Workers of America in the anthracite coalfields of eastern Pennsylvania. It was the first labor dispute in which the U.S. federal government and President Theodore Roosevelt intervened as a neutral arbitrator. -
National Reclamation Act
The Reclamation Act of 1902 was a United States federal law that funded irrigation projects for the dry lands of 20 states in the American West. The act at first covered only 13 of the western states as Texas had no federal lands. Texas was added later by a special act passed in 1906. -
Elkins Act passed
Congress passed the bill and President Roosevelt signed it into law on February 19, 1903. The Elkins Act was made to specifically prohibit rebates and make the railroad corporation provide the rebate, as well as the shipper receiving it, liable under the law. -
Wins first full term as President
His successful efforts to broker the end of the Russo-Japanese War won him the 1906 Nobel Peace Prize. Roosevelt was elected to a full term in 1904 and continued to promote progressive policies. He groomed his close friend William Howard Taft to succeed him in the 1908 presidential election. -
TR and the Northern Securities Case
Roosevelt's Department of Justice prosecuted the Northern Securities Company for violating the Sherman Act. In 1904, the Supreme Court agreed with the administration's position, and ordered the Northern Securities company dissolved. For Roosevelt, this proved a great victory. -
Passage of 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 Act regulated such items shipped through interstate commerce. -
Meat inspection Act
The Meat Inspection Act of 1906 was a piece of U.S. legislation, signed by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1906. The act prohibited the sale of spoiled or misbranded livestock and derived products as food and ensured sanitary slaughtering and processing of livestock. -
Yosemite under Federal Control
On October 1 of the following year, Congress set aside over 1,500 square miles of land for what would become Yosemite National Park, America's third national park. In 1906, the state-controlled Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Grove came under federal jurisdiction with the rest of the park. -
Leaves presidency, visits Africa
The presidency of Theodore Roosevelt started on September 14, 1901, when Theodore Roosevelt became the 26th president of the United States upon the assassination of President William McKinley, and ended on March 4, 1909. One of the biggest headline stories of 1910 was former president Theodore Roosevelt's safari into Africa. Landing in Mombasa in 1909, Roosevelt spent months in the wilds of East Africa, hunting big game in parts of what are now Kenya and Uganda. -
TR Runs for presidency in Bull-Moose Party
The Progressive Party, also referred to as the Bull Moose Party was a third party in the United States formed in 1912 by Theodore Roosevelt after he lost the presidential nomination of the Republican Party to his rival president William Howard Taft.