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America had become interested in Cuba's liberation in the 1890s as publications portrayed the evil of Spanish Rule. No one favored Cuban independence more than Roosevelt. As Assistant Secretary of the Navy, he beat the war drum and prepared the Navy for war with Spain. -
It was the first example of Roosevelt's use of anti-trust legislation to dismantle a monopoly, in this case a holding company controlling the principal railroad lines from Chicago to the Pacific Northwest. In 1901, railroad builder James J. Hill of St. -
American politician, statesman, conservationist, naturalist, and writer who served as the 26th president of the United States from 1901 to 1909. -
A great strike in the anthracite coal fields of Pennsylvania threatened a coal famine. -
Congress passed the Reclamation Act of June17, 1902. The Act required that water users repay construction costs from which they received benefits. In the jargon of that day, irrigation projects were known as "reclamation"projects. The concept was that irrigation would "reclaim" arid lands for human use. -
amended the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887. -
Incumbent Theodore Roosevelt defeated Democratic challenger Alton B. Parker in the 1904 presidential election. With his landslide victory, Roosevelt became the first president to win a full term after assuming the office upon the death of his predecessor. -
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). -
Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove remained under state administration until 1906, when they were returned to federal control and incorporated in Yosemite National Park. In the Forest Reserve Act of 1891, Congress authorized presidents to proclaim permanent forest reserves on the public domain. -
makes it illegal to adulterate or misbrand meat and meat products being sold as food -
Went on an expedition to Africa with his son.