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Theodore Roosevelt was born at 28 East 20th Street in Manhattan, New York City.
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An act of Congress creates Yosemite National Park, home of such natural wonders as Half Dome and the giant sequoia trees.
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Mckinley was the third president to be assassinated. He was on his second term, elected in 1900.
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President Theodore Roosevelt established the first national wildlife refuge at Pelican Island, Florida. Today, the National Wildlife Refuge System is the only network of federal lands dedicated specifically to wildlife conservation.
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Theodore Roosevelt won a landslide victory, taking every Northern and Western state. He was the first Republican to carry the state of Missouri since Ulysses .S Grant.
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Roosevelt thought it would strengthen the power of the Interstate Commerce Commission to set maximum railroad freight rates. The act required railroads to hold to their published rates and forbade rate cutting and rebates.
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This act 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 Administration
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Teddy Roosevelt created this national monument and it is the first national monument in the United States.
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Roosevelt African Expedition was an expedition to Africa led by outgoing American president Theodore Roosevelt and outfitted by the Smithsonian Institution. The expedition collected around 11,400 animal specimens which took Smithsonian naturalists eight years to catalog.
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Bull Moose Party, formally Progressive Party, U.S. dissident political faction that nominated former president Theodore Roosevelt as its candidate in the presidential election of 1912; the formal name and general objectives of the party were revived 12 years later.
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Members of the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries proclaimed an oil embargo. The embargo was targeted at nations perceived as supporting Israel during the Yom Kippur War.
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