Teddy Roosevelt

By Poeldp
  • Theodore Roosevelt is born

    Theodore Roosevelt is born

    Theodore Roosevelt was born on October 27, 1858, in New York City. The house that is located at 28 East 20th Street was reconstructed and made into a National Historic Site.
  • Elkins Act

    Elkins Act

    The Elkins Act amended the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887. It prohibited railroad companies from giving preferential treatment to their favored customers. It also prevented them from providing secret discounts and price cuts to their favored customers. It made the railroad companies liable for stiff fines.
  • Named President when McKinley is assassinated

    Named President when McKinley is assassinated

    Theodore Roosevelt was named president after the assassination of President William McKinley. McKinley was shot on the 9th, and Theodore Roosevelt was sworn in as President on the 26th.
  • Energy crisis - Anthracite Coal Strike

    Energy crisis - Anthracite Coal Strike

    The Anthracite Coal Strike was a dispute that threatened a national energy crisis. A major labor dispute occurred when 147,000 Pennsylvania miners stopped working due to poor working conditions. They worked for long hours and got little pay with awful working conditions
  • Pelican Island, Florida named first national wildlife refuge

    Pelican Island, Florida named first national wildlife refuge

    Theodore Roosevelt created this Wildlife reserve to protect the Brown Pelican population, along with other wading birds, from plume hunters. This was the first national wildlife refuge in the United States.
  • Wins first full term as President

    Wins first full term as President

    Theodore Roosevelt won his first full term as president in 1904 as the incumbent republican. He beat the democratic nominee, Alton B. Parker, by a landslide.
  • Yosemite under Federal Control

    Yosemite under Federal Control

    Theodore Roosevelt championed this law in 1906, as a result of his wilderness expedition with John Muir in 1903, where they discussed the need for greater protection of the land.
  • Passage of Pure Food And Drug Act

    Passage of Pure Food And Drug Act

    The Pure Food and Drug Act was passed on June 30, 1906, as a result of public outcry following the muckraking literature of the time, such as Upton Sinclair's The Jungle. This Act was a major milestone in public health protection because it required honest labeling on food and drugs.
  • Devil’s Tower, Wyoming, named first national monument

    Devil’s Tower, Wyoming, named first national monument

    President Theodore Roosevelt declared this the first national monument. Roosevelt declared this a national monument to protect the geological formation
  • Leaves presidency, visits Africa

    Leaves presidency, visits Africa

    Whenever Theodore Roosevelt left office in 1909, he went on a year-long expedition to Africa. The purpose of this trip was hunting and scientific research. He went to collect plant and animal specimens for the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.
  • Runs for presidency, unsuccessfully for Bull-Moose Party

    Runs for presidency, unsuccessfully for Bull-Moose Party

    Theodore Roosevelt ran under the Bull Moose Party after he failed to secure the Republican nomination. He unsuccessfully ran under the Bull Moose Party. The reason it was called the Bull Moose Party was because, after he lost the republican nomination, he said he was as fit as a bull moose.