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Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove were under state control until 1906. Then they returned to federal control and combined with Yosemite National Park. -
Theodore Roosevelt led his men in the charge up San Juan Hill. He and the Rough Riders and black soldiers of the 9th and 10th Cavalry regiments were the first up Kettle Hill, and San Juan Hill was taken soon after. -
Teddy Roosevelt was vice president under president William McKinley for six months, and then assumed presidency after McKinley's assassination. As president, Roosevelt was a leader of the Republican Party and became a driving force for anti-trust and Progressive policies. -
The Reclamation Act was an act that required water users to repay construction costs that they benefited from. -
Roosevelt tried to convince the union to end the coal strike with a promise that he would make a commission to study the causes of the strike and find a solution. -
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. -
A Republican, he ran for and won by a landslide a four-year term in 1904. -
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. -
The Pure Food and Drug Act prohibited the sale of misbranded or adulterated food and drugs in interstate commerce and laid a foundation the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). -
The Meat Inspection Act was an act that prohibited the sale of adulterated or misbranded livestock and derived products as food and ensured sanitary slaughtering and processing of livestock. -
The Smithsonian–Roosevelt African Expedition was an expedition to tropical Africa in 1909–1911 led by former US President Theodore Roosevelt. Roosevelt was there to hunt big game which would in turn be stuffed and turned over to the Smithsonian for its exhibit halls.
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The Progressive Party was popularly nicknamed the "Bull Moose Party" when Roosevelt boasted that he felt "strong as a bull moose" after losing the Republican nomination in June 1912 at the Chicago convention.