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It resulted from the broader push for American imperialism and helped propel Theodore Roosevelt to the presidency -
At 42 Roosevelt was the youngest person to become president and used the office to champion progressive reforms, strengthen the executive branch and expand U.S. Power on the world stage -
Numerous coal strikes occurred throughout history driven by miners demand for better wages, safer working conditions, and union recognition, The conflicts which were violent have profoundly impacted American labor relations and government policy -
It authorized the federal government to fund and construct massive irrigation projects that would transform the arid American west into productive farmland -
The Elkins act was a progressive Era law that prohibited railroad companies from offering rebates tpo large volume shippers -
Theodore Roosevelt won his first full term as president in there 1904 election with a landslide victory democrat Alton B. Parker making him the first president to Have assumed office via succession and then gone on to be elected in his own right -
It was a landmark antitrust lawsuit brought by president Theodore Roosevelts adminstration that resulted in the breakup of a giant railroad monopoly -
The meat Inspection act of 1906 is a landmark U.S. law that prohibits the sale of adulterated or misbranded meat and meat products. It was enacted to ensure that livestock are slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions -
It was a crucial step in American conservation driven by his 1903 camping trip with naturalist John Muir. While the Yosemite valley and mariposa Grove were first protected in 1864 -
The pure food and drug act of 1906 prohibited the sale of misbranded or adulterated food and drugs in interstate commerce. It was a landmark piece of progressive era legislation that established federal responsibility for public health -
The former president embarked on the smithsonian Roosevelt African expedition to collect specimens for the smithsonian insitutions new natural history museum -
It was triggered by a deep rift with his hand picked successor. President William Howard Traft frustrated with trafts more conservative policies