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TR the Rough Rider at San Juan Hill
United States forces, including Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders, defeated greatly outnumbered Spanish forces at San Juan Hill and Kettle Hill near the Spanish stronghold of Santiago de Cuba. -
Named president for the 1st time
Theodore Roosevelt became the 26th president of the United States upon the assassination of President William McKinley and ended on March 4, 1909. He became the youngest one to be the president of the US. His presidency saw the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act, which established the Food and Drug Administration to regulate food safety, and the Hepburn Act, which increased the regulatory power of the Interstate Commerce Commission. -
Coal Strike
The Coal strike of 1902 was a strike by the United Mine Workers of America in the anthracite coalfields of eastern Pennsylvania. Miners struck for higher wages, shorter workdays, and the recognition of their union. Roosevelt attempted to persuade the union to end the strike with a promise that he would create a commission to study the causes of the strike and propose a solution, which Roosevelt promised to support with all of the authority of his office. -
National Reclamation Act
The Act required that water users repay construction costs from which they received benefits. This act allowed the government to apply federal funds to projects intended to transform arid areas in twenty Western states into arable land (land that could be farmed) through irrigation projects. -
Elkins Act
The Elkins Act prohibits railroad companies from giving rebates to businesses that ship large quantities of goods and giving power to those businesses to artificially lower shipping prices. Congress passed the bill by an overwhelming margin, and President Roosevelt signed it into law on February 19, 1903. -
Wins first full term as President
Roosevelt was elected to a full term in 1904 and continued to promote progressive policies. Incumbent Republican President Theodore 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
On October 1 of the following year, Congress set aside over 1,500 square miles of land (about the size of Rhode Island) for what would become Yosemite National Park, America's third national park. In 1906, the state-controlled Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Grove came under federal jurisdiction with the rest of the park. -
TR and the Northern Securities Case
President Theodore Roosevelt filed suit to break up Northern Securities, on the grounds that such a company violated the 1890 Sherman Antitrust Act. This case established President Theodore Roosevelt’s reputation as a “trust buster,” which reached the Supreme Court in 1904. It was the first example of Roosevelt’s use of anti-trust legislation to dismantle a monopoly, in this case, a holding company controlling the principal railroad lines from Chicago to the Pacific Northwest. -
Passage of Pure Food And Drug Act
The Food and Drugs Act of 1906 was passed by Congress on June 30th and signed by President Theodore Roosevelt, which 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. -
Meat Inspection Act
A piece of U.S. legislation, signed by President Theodore Roosevelt which prohibited the sale of adulterated or misbranded livestock and derived products as food and ensured sanitary slaughtering and processing of livestock. -
Leaves presidency, visits Africa
The Smithsonian–Roosevelt African Expedition was 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, now known as the National Museum of Natural History. -
TR Runs for presidency in Bull-Moose Party
The Progressive Party (often referred to as the "Bull Moose Party") was a third party in the United States formed in 1912 by former president Theodore Roosevelt after he lost the presidential nomination of the Republican Party to his former protégé rival, incumbent President William Howard Taft. Wilson handily defeated Taft and Roosevelt winning 435 of the 531 available electoral votes.