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Teddy Roosevelt led a team of cowboys as a volunteer army to fight at San Juan Hill at the start of the spanish american war -
Teddy Roosevelt became president in september of 1901 after the assassination of President McKinley. The significance of his presidency is in the massive reforms -
led to the irrigation of arid states to create fertile land -
theodore roosevelt helped to settle a strike between anthracite coal miners and manager -
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. -
In 1904 elections Theodore Roosevelt wins his first full term -
the first example of TR's "trustbusting" to break apart the northern securities company -
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 -
1906 act that aims at fighting adulteration and mislabeling of meat products -
1500 sq miles were set aside for Yosemite the 3rd national park -
Teddy Roosevelt went on an expedition through africa to collect specimens for the Smithsonian museum -
Teddy Roosevelt runs under his own party against Taft,dividing the republican party leading to Democrat Woodrow Wilson winning the election