roosevelt

By zaira.peredo
  • Theodore Roosevelt is born

    Theodore Roosevelt is born

    he was born in New York
  • Named President when McKinley is assassinated

    Named President when McKinley is assassinated

    McKinley was standing in a receiving line at the Buffalo Pan-American Exposition when a deranged anarchist shot him twice.He passed 8 days later.Vice President Roosevelt immediately became president
  • Elkins Act passed

    Elkins Act passed

    specifically prohibited rebates and made the railroad corporation providing the rebate, as well as the shipper receiving it, liable under the law.
  • Pelican Island, Florida named first national wildlife refuge

    Pelican Island, Florida named first national wildlife refuge

    Roosevelt created the National Wildlife Refuge System. While in office, he would go on to create 50 more federal bird reserves and four national game preserves within the refuge system
  • Wins first full term as President

    Wins first full term as President

    The election of 1904 was important because Roosevelt defeated the Democratic nominee, Alton B. Parker. Roosevelt's victory made him the first president who ascended to the presidency upon the death of his predecessor to win a full term in his own right
  • Yosemite under Federal Control

    Yosemite under Federal Control

    Muir took Roosevelt to Yosemite in an attempt to persuade him to take the land under federal control and establish it as a national park, which Roosevelt did in 1906.
  • Passage of Pure Food And Drug Act

    Passage of Pure Food And Drug 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
  • Devil’s Tower, Wyoming, named first national monument

    Devil’s Tower, Wyoming, named first national monument

    Due in large part to the influence of Mondell, President Theodore Roosevelt proclaimed Devils Tower as the first national monument
  • Leaves presidency, visits Africa

    Leaves presidency, visits Africa

    an expedition to Africa led by American president Theodore Roosevelt and outfitted by the Smithsonian Institution. Its purpose was to collect specimens for the Smithsonian's new Natural History museum
  • Energy crisis

    Energy crisis

    Roosevelt ultimately won the battle in 1911 when the us supreme court approved the breakup of the standard oil company, Rockefeller's company.
  • Runs for presidency, unsuccessfully for Bull-Moose Party

    Runs for presidency, unsuccessfully for Bull-Moose Party

    Democratic Governor Woodrow Wilson unseated incumbent Republican President William Howard Taft and defeated former President Theodore Roosevelt, who ran under the banner of the new Progressive or "Bull Moose" Party.