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Teddy Roosevelt is born
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was born on October 27, 1858, at 28 East 20th Street in Manhattan, New York City. -
Roosevelt names President
Teddy Roosevelt served as the 26th president of the United States from 1901 to 1909. -
Elkins Act
The Elkins Act is a 1903 United States federal law that amended the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887. The Act authorized the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) to impose heavy fines on railroads that offered rebates, and upon the shippers that accepted these rebates. -
Pelican Island, Florida named 1st National Wildlife Refuge
Established by an executive order of President Theodore Roosevelt on March 14, 1903, Pelican Island was the first National wildlife refuge in the United States.[3] It was created to protect egrets and other birds from extinction through plume hunting. -
Roosevelt wins first full term as President
The 1904 United States presidential election was the 30th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 8, 1904. Incumbent Republican President Theodore Roosevelt defeated the Democratic nominee, Alton B. Parker. -
Yosemite under Federal control
On October 1 of the following year, Congress set aside over 1,500 square miles of land 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. -
Passage of Pure Food and Drug Act
The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 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, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). -
Devil’s Tower, Wyoming, named 1st National Monument
Devils Tower National Monument, also called Grizzly Bear Lodge, the first U.S. national monument, established in 1906 in northeastern Wyoming, near the Belle Fourche River. -
Teddy Roosevelt leaves presidency and visits Africa
Roosevelt and his expeditionary party leave New York for Africa. ... From there, Roosevelt and his party travel through British East Africa, the Belgian Congo, and Sudan. March 14, 1910. The expedition ends its trip in Khartoum, Sudan, having acquired thousands of natural specimens. -
Energy Crisis
Roosevelt ultimately won that battle in 1911 when the U.S. Supreme Court approved the breakup of the Standard Oil Company, Rockefeller's company. -
Roosevelt runs for presidency, unsuccessfully for 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.
