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TR the Rough Rider at San Juan Hill
Theodore Roosevelt led his “Rough Riders” up the San Juan Heights against heavy artillery fire to help end the Spanish-American War. The "Rough Riders" enlisted cowboys and college men led by Roosevelt under the command of Leonard Wood. They arrived in Cuba in time to take part in the Battle of San Juan Hill. America's conflict with Spain was later described as a "splendid little war" and for Theodore Roosevelt it certainly was. -
TR 1st time named President
After Vice President Garret Hobart died in 1899, the New York state party leadership convinced McKinley to accept Roosevelt as his running mate in the 1900 election. Roosevelt took office as vice president and assumed the presidency at age 42 after McKinley was assassinated the following September -
Coal strike
A strike by the United Mine Workers of America in the anthracite coalfields of eastern Pennsylvania. It was the first labor dispute in which the U.S. federal government and President Theodore Roosevelt intervened as a neutral arbitrators. -
TR and the Northern Securities Case
In 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt instructed his Justice Department to break up this holding company on the grounds that it was an illegal combination acting in restraint of trade. Using the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, the federal government did so and the Northern Securities Company sued to appeal the ruling. Roosevelt’s action had ignored the advice of leading conservatives in the Republican Party and demonstrated his independence from party elders. -
National Reclamation Act
The Reclamation Act of 1902 is a United States federal law that funded irrigation projects for the arid lands of 20 states in the American West. The act at first covered only 13 of the western states as Texas had no federal lands. Texas was added later by a special act passed in 190 -
Elkins Act passed
The Elkins Act specifically prohibited rebates and made the railroad corporation providing the rebate, as well as the shipper receiving it, liable under the law. -
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. -
Meat Inspection Act
The Meat Inspection Act was a piece of U.S. legislation that prohibited the sale of adulterated or misbranded livestock and derived products as food and ensured sanitary slaughtering and processing of livestock. -
Passage of Pure Food And Drug Act
Since 1879, nearly 100 bills had been introduced in Congress to regulate food and drugs; President Roosevelt signed the Food and Drugs Act, known simply as the Wiley Act, a pillar of the Progressive era. The basis of the law rested on the regulation of product labeling rather than pre-market approval. -
Leaves presidency and visits Africa
President Theodore Roosevelt went on an expedition to Africa. This guide provides access to materials related to “Theodore Roosevelt's Africa Expedition” in the Chronicling America digital collection of historic newspapers. -
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 and conservative rival, incumbent president William Howard Taft. -
Wins first full term as President
The first term of the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt began on March 4, 1933, when he was inaugurated as the 32nd president of the United States,