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Roosevelt is Born
Future President Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was born in New York, NY. -
Yosemite Under Federal Control
Roosevelt created the Boone and Crockett Club and other organizations in attempts to conserve the natural. On October 1, 1890, Yosemite Park was named federal land in order to protect it from overgrazing and logging. -
Named President
President William McKinley was assassinated in 19091. Roosevelt who was Vice President, then look over as a Republican. -
Energy Crisis
The workers of the United Coal Mine began to strike for higher wages and shorter hours. The workers going on strike stopped other American cities from being able to have the correct amount of energy . As a result, workers wages increased by 10% and workdays went from ten to nine hours. -
Elkins Act
President Roosevelt passed the Elkins Act in order to stop the rich businessmen from receiving large refunds from railroad companies. Roosevelt soon became known as a "trust buster". -
Pelican Island
As an executive order, Pelican Island was the first National wildlife refuge inside the Everglades located in Florida. It was a 3 acre island surrounded by water in order to protect birds specifically egrets, from going extinct. -
Roosevelt's First Full Term Election Win
Theo Roosevelt who was Republican, ran against Alton Parker and won making him the first President to serve a term after being made President after Vice Presidency. -
Passage of Pure Food and Drug Act
It was known that food production companies were using false labels and putting anything inside of the food being sold to the consumers. It was then passed in 1906, the sale of falsely labeled and unsanitary products inside of food and drugs illegal. -
Devils Tower
President Roosevelt launched the Antiquities act which gives the president power to set national monuments, later on in that year, Devils Tower became the first national monument in Wyoming. -
Leaves Presidency, goes to Africa
Roosevelt left office and with his small group went on an expidition to collect items for the new Smithsonian Meseum. They killed about 11,400 animals in only a years time. -
Nominated as Bull Moose Candidate
Theo Roosevelt was nominated by the Progressive Party to hopefully get President Taft out of office. The Bull Moose Party is known for the elections of U.S. Senators, woman suffrage, reduction of the tariff, and many social reforms. However in 1912, just before giving a speech, Roosevelt was shot and hospitalized.
