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Teddy Roosevelt was born on October 27, 1858 in New York, New York.
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Yosemite was the national park that was home of natural wonders such as half dome and sequoia trees. This sparked the idea of having national parks even though it was the third actual national park.
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Theodore Roosevelt became president after McKinley was assassinated in 1901. He was 43 when he became president and he continues to be the youngest president.
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Theodore Roosevelt called an emergency meeting when he got the news that a great strike in the anthracite coal fields of Pennsylvania threatened a coal famine. Teddy did this after he was injured a month earlier when his carriage was hit by a trolley car.
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The Elkins Act authorized the Interstate Commerce Commission to impose heavy fines on railroads that offered rebates, and upon the shippers that accepted these rebates.
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Theodore Roosevelt declared the site as the first national monument in 1906, Devils Tower was used as the appellation and the name became official.
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This was passed to keep foreign and interstate traffic in adulterated or mislabeled food and drug products. This helped keep people safe and it helped them to inspect the chemicals in different things.
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Roosevelt went to Africa because he wanted to collect new specimens for the Smithsonian's new natural history museum. He left the presidency and collected around 11,400 animal specimens which took Smithsonian naturalists eight years to catalog.
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The progressive party nominated Roosevelt, Bull Moose was the name given for Roosevelt's strength and vigor that he described himself with. He was shot on the way to deliver a speech and he went and did the speech anyway and told the people it takes more than that to kill a bull moose. They lost to the democratic party with Woodrow Wilson.
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Pelican Island was designated as a National Historic Landmark because of its status as the first federal area set aside specifically to protect wildlife.
