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TR the Rough Rider at San Juan Hill
The Battle of San Juan Heights was fought on July 1, which Roosevelt called "the great day of my life." He led a series of charges up Kettle Hill towards San Juan Heights on his horse, Texas, while the Rough Riders followed on foot. -
1st presidency
Roosevelt assumed the presidency at age 42 after McKinley was assassinated in September 1901. He remains the youngest person to become president of the United States. -
Coal Strike
The Coal strike of 1902 was a strike by the United Mine Workers of America in the anthracite coalfields. -
National Reclamation Act
federal law that funded irrigation projects for the arid lands of 20 states in the American West. -
Elkins Act
The Elkins Act was intended to prohibit railroads from providing rebates to preferred customers. -
Wins first full term as President
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
The Northern Securities Case (1904), which established President Theodore Roosevelt's reputation as a “trust buster,” reached the Supreme Court in 1904. This ordered the Northern railroad companies to be dissolved -
Passage of Pure Food And Drug Act
June 1906 President Roosevelt signed the Food and Drugs Act, known simply as the Wiley Act, a pillar of the Progressive era -
Meat Inspection Act
The Act that was place to prevent adulterated or mis-branded meat and meat products from being sold as food and to ensure that meat and meat products are slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions. -
Yosemite under Federal Control
Congress set aside over 1,500 square miles of land (about the size of Rhode Island) 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.
Roosevelt and his expeditionary party leave New York for Africa and travel through the British owned lands. -
TR Runs for presidency in Bull-Moose Party
He formed this party in an attempt to advance progressive ideas and unseat President William Howard Taft in the election of 1912.