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Roosevelt referred to this day as "the greatest day of my life," This was a battle in the Spanish-American war leading to a glorious victory for America. -
With the assassination of McKinley, Roosvelt became president. He was such an important because he lead the American public towards progressive reforms and a strong foreign policy.
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He attempted to persuade the union to stop rioting and propose a solution to study the causes of the strike. -
This act required that water users repay the construction costs from where they received these benefits. With this act, Roosevelt created Dams and other water suppliers. -
This act prohibited railroad combines from giving rebates to businesses that ship large amounts and gave power to these bussineses to lower shipping prices. -
First time winning an election in his own right, he ran as the Republican Party. -
Established Roosvelt reputation as a "trust buster," under Roosevelt's administration, they prosecuted the Northern Securities Company for violating the Sherman act. -
Teddy passed this act to prohibit the sale of adulterate or misbranded livestock and derived products as food. -
This act prohibited the sale of misbranded of adulterated food and made sure their food and drug labels were labeled properly. -
On this day Congress set aside over 1,500 sqaure miles of land that would become Yosemite national park. -
Roosvelt went on a ten month safari out to Africa to go hunting and explore. While he was on this tour, he also explored Europe. -
Roosvelt was unhappy with the way Taft was running things and didn't think he was progressive enough, so he created his own party to run against Taft, which ended up splitting the Republican votes.