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Rough Riders
Roosevelts volunteer cavalry -
Presidency
Roosevelt assumed the presidency after the McKinley assasination. -
Coal Strike
Roosevelt promised the miners to create a commission to support the miners. -
Reclamation Act
Required water users to repay construction costs from which they received the benefit of the use of water. -
Elkins Act
Upheld rates published by the interstate commerce commission -
Full-Term Presidency
Roosevelt won his first full term presidency on the Republican ticket. -
Northern Securities Case
Roosevelt's first use of anti-trust legislation to dissolve a monopoly. -
Food Act
The first law regulating food and drugs. -
Meat Inspection Act
Signe the same day as the Food Act, prohibited the sale of misbranded or adulterated livestock. -
Yosemite Under Federal Control
The American antiquities Act of 1906 transferred the Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Grove back under federal protection and control. -
Theodore Roosevelt Goes to Africa
The Smithsonian Institution outfitted Roosevelt for an African safari to collect specimens for their new Natural History Museum, collecting 11,400 specimens. -
Bull Moose Party
A progressive party formed by Roosevelt after losing the Republican nomination to Taft. Roosevelt won only 27% of the popular vote.
