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Teddy Roosevelt was the leader of the Rough Riders, and lead them to battle the Spanish for the Spanish-American war at San Juan Hill. Although it was very bloody, especially for the Americans, they ended up winning, this was considered their greatest victory.
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McKinley was shot twice in at close range, killing him a little over a week afterwards. This made him the third president to get assassinated. Teddy Roosevelt was vice president at the time, which made him the new president for the remaining term.
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The coal strike was a very large and dangerous strike, where workers demanded better work over all, which included better pay and less work hours. This was the first strike that the government and the president, Teddy Roosevelt, had to intervene with, especially with the large horde of strikers and the now 20 causalities resulting from the strike. After negotiation, he managed to end the strike after offering 10% wage increases, and 9 working hours instead of 10.
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Teddy Roosevelt wanted to start his Square plan, and first started with the railroads. Rebates were becoming a huge issue with railroads, which were constantly abused by both employees and customers. Neither could be held liable either, so Roosevelt put the Elkins Act into place to end this and make it a misdemeanor.
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Teddy Roosevelt wanted to protect some endangered birds from extinction, some of them being located at Indian River Lagoon, Florida. He signed an executive order to protect it, making it the first national wildlife refuge.
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An election was held in 1904 to determine the new president, the two candidates being Teddy Roosevelt and Alton B. Parker. Roosevelt wins by a land slide, giving him his first official full term of presidency, as his previous one happened due to the assassination of McKinley and wasn't an actual win on his part.
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After visiting Yosemite National Park located in mid-east California in 1903 for a camping trip, Teddy Roosevelt was persuaded to give it federal protection to keep it as beautiful as it was. He signed a bill about 3 years later, which did this.
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Due to the fear that prehistoric Native American ruins and artifacts could be damaged, they wanted to protect Devil's Tower, which is located in Crook County, Wyoming. Teddy Roosevelt decided to do so by making Devil's Tower the first national monument, which had people avoid certain parts of it to protect said artifacts and ruins.
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After the book, "The Jungle" exposed conditions in food production factories, something had to be done. The Pure Food and Drug Act forced inspections of food production, and also put things such as adulteration and misbranding into federal law. Although it was signed by Teddy Roosevelt on 6/30/1906, it wasn't put into affect on 1/1/1907.
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After his presidency ended,Teddy Roosevelt visited Africa, to hunt specimens in order to collect them for the National Museum of History. They collected about 11,000+ specimen, and he wrote a book about his experience called "African Game Trails."
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After William Howard Taft became president in 1909 with help of Roosevelt, he stumbled while attempting to progress the Square Deal, angering Roosevelt. He attempted to re run for 1912 under the Bull Moose Party, which was built on the idea of the Square Deal. He lost to Woodrow Wilson, and although planned to run again in the future, he died in 1919 due to breathing issues at the age of 60.
