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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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President Theodore Roosevelt declared this the first national monument. Roosevelt declared this a national monument to protect the geological formation
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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.
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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.