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The Battle of San Juan Heights was fought on July 1, which Roosevelt called "the great day of my life." He led a series of charges up Kettle Hill towards San Juan Heights on his horse, Texas, while the Rough Riders followed on foot. -
Roosevelt assumed the presidency at age 42 after McKinley was assassinated in September 1901. He remains the youngest person to become president of the United States. -
The Coal strike of 1902 was a strike by the United Mine Workers of America in the anthracite coalfields. -
federal law that funded irrigation projects for the arid lands of 20 states in the American West. -
The Elkins Act was intended to prohibit railroads from providing rebates to preferred customers. -
Roosevelt was elected to a full term in 1904 and continued to promote progressive policies. He groomed his close friend William Howard Taft to succeed him in the 1908 presidential election. -
The Northern Securities Case (1904), which established President Theodore Roosevelt's reputation as a “trust buster,” reached the Supreme Court in 1904. This ordered the Northern railroad companies to be dissolved -
June 1906 President Roosevelt signed the Food and Drugs Act, known simply as the Wiley Act, a pillar of the Progressive era -
The Act that was place to prevent adulterated or mis-branded meat and meat products from being sold as food and to ensure that meat and meat products are slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions. -
Congress set aside over 1,500 square miles of land (about the size of Rhode Island) for what would become Yosemite National Park, America's third national park. In 1906, the state-controlled Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Grove came under federal jurisdiction with the rest of the park. -
Roosevelt and his expeditionary party leave New York for Africa and travel through the British owned lands. -
He formed this party in an attempt to advance progressive ideas and unseat President William Howard Taft in the election of 1912.