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TR the Rough Rider at San Juan Hill
Theodore Roosevelt led a series of charges up Kettle Hill towards San Juan Heights on his horse while the Rough Riders followed on foot. -
1st Time TR Named President
Roosevelt became president at 42 after McKinley was assassinated in September of 1901. He remains the youngest person to become president of the United States. -
Coal Strike
A strike by the United Mine Workers of America in the anthracite coalfields of eastern Pennsylvania. Miners striked for higher wages, shorter workdays, and the recognition of their union. The strike threatened to shut down the winter fuel supply to major American cities. -
National Reclamation Act
A United States federal law that funded irrigation projects for 20 states in the West. The Act required that water users repay construction costs from which they received benefits. -
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. -
TR and the Northern Securities Case
The Court ruled 5 to 4 against the stockholders of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific railroad companies, who had essentially formed a monopoly, and to dissolve the Northern Securities Company. -
Wins First Full Term as President
Republican, Theodore Roosevelt, defeated the Democratic nominee, Alton B. Parker. Roosevelt continued to promote progressive policies. -
Yosemite Under Federal Control
In 1905, the Sierra Club fought for Yosemite Valley to go from being under state to federal control and in 1906 the senate approved and allowed the valley to become part of Yosemite National Park. -
Meat Inspection Act
A piece of U.S. legislation that prohibited the sale of adulterated or misbranded livestock and derived products as food and ensured sanitary slaughtering and processing of livestock. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
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). -
Leaves Presidency, Visits Africa
The purpose of this expedition was to collect specimens for the Smithsonian's new Natural History museum, now known as the National Museum of Natural History. -
TR Runs for Presidency in Bull-Moose Party
Roosevelt and the Bull Moose movement stressed its progressive, reform credentials, even backing women's suffrage.