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Theodore Roosevelt

By jsuchy

  • Theodore Roosevelt was born in New York City into a family of aristocrats

    Theodore Roosevelt was born in New York City into a family of aristocrats
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    Theodore Rosevelt

  • Graduates Harvard University

    Graduates Harvard University
    Graduates college with honors just two years after his fathers death.

  • Climbs the Matterhorn

    Climbs the tallest mountain in the Swiss Alps during honey moon to Europe. Quote:"It was like going up and down enourmous stairs on our hands and knees for nine hours."

  • Travels to Dakota Badlands

    Travels to Dakota Badlands
    Goes out west to Dakota to buy a herd of cattle and a ranch.

  • Fights in the Spanish-American War

    Fights in the Spanish-American War
    Becomes lieutenant colonel of a calvery regiment known as the Rough Riders, and travels to Cuba to fight in the war.

  • Roosevelt becomes 26th President of USA

    Roosevelt becomes 26th President of USA
    He becomes pesident after President McKinley dies as the result of an asasanation atempt, leaving 42 year old Rosevelt to become the youngest president to ever hold office.

  • Permision granted to create Panama Canal

    Permision granted to create Panama Canal
    Signes treaty with country of Panama granting the US access to the ten-mile-wide strip accoss its land.

  • Awarded Nobel Peace Prize

    Awarded Nobel Peace Prize
    Recieves the award for mediating peace in the Russo-Japanese War.

  • Deafeted as President

    Looses election against Woodrow Wilson in three way compitition.

  • Theodore Roosevelt dies in his sleep at Sagamore Hill at the age of 60