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TR the Rough Rider at San Juan Hill
Charge of the Rough Riders at San Juan Hill by Frederic Remington. In reality, they assaulted San Juan Heights and the portion later called Kettle Hill by the Americans. -
TR 1st time named President
After McKinley's assassination in September 1901, Roosevelt ascended the presidency at the age of 42. He is still the youngest person in history to be elected as President of the United States. -
National Reclamation Act
Water customers were compelled to return construction expenditures from which they had benefited. Irrigation projects were referred to as "reclamation" projects in the vernacular of the time. -
Coal Strike
Roosevelt attempted to persuade the union to terminate the strike by promising to form a commission to investigate the strike's causes and recommend a solution, which Roosevelt promised to back up with all of his authority. -
Elkins Act passed
The Elkins Act was enacted to prevent railroads from giving preferred customers rebates. President Roosevelt signed the bill into law after Congress passed it by a large margin. -
TR and the Northern Securities Case
The Supreme Court heard the Northern Securities Case, which cemented President Theodore Roosevelt's reputation as a "trust breaker." It was Roosevelt's first instance of using anti-trust legislation to break up a monopoly. -
Wins first full term as President
The 1904 presidential election in the United States was the 30th quadrennial presidential election, conducted on November 8, 1904. Theodore Roosevelt, the incumbent Republican president, defeated Democratic nominee Alton B. Parker. -
The Meat Inspection Act
The Meat Inspection Act, signed by President Theodore Roosevelt on, barred the sale of contaminated or mis-branded livestock and related products as food and required sanitary slaughtering and processing of animals. -
Passage of Pure Food And Drug Act
The law increased medical care for persons who became ill as a result of contaminated food. Food had to be inspected by the government to assure its safety, according to the legislation. -
Yosemite under Federal Control
Yosemite National Park, America's third national park, was established when Congress set aside about 1,500 square miles of land, roughly the size of Rhode Island. -
Leaves presidency, visits Africa
Former President Theodore Roosevelt's trip to Africa was one of the year's most talked-about tales. Roosevelt spent months in the wilds of East Africa after landing in Mombasa, hunting large game in what is now Kenya and Uganda. -
TR Runs for presidency in Bull-Moose Party
Roosevelt received 27.4 percent of the popular vote in the 1912 election, compared to 23.2 percent for Taft, making Roosevelt the only third-party presidential nominee to receive a higher percentage of the vote than a major party's presidential nominee.