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Teddy Roosevelt was born in NY, New York City on October 27th, 1858.
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Theodore Roosevelt is sworn in as president on Sept. 14, 1901, the same day President McKinley was assassinated.
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In 1902 the coal miner of east Pennsylvania unionized had and had a strike for shorter workdays, improved pay, and union recognition. President Roosevelt used his position to promise the miners a solution to these issues as long as they stopped the strike.
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The Act authorized the Interstate Commerce Commission to impose heavy fines on companies that offered discounts, and upon the shippers that accepted these deductions.
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Teddy Roosevelt established Pelican Island as the first national bird reserve for pelicans.
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Teddy Roosevelt won his first full term as president on November 8th, 1904. He ran against the Democrat Alton B. Parker
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Roosevelt passed a bill to place Yosemite under federal administration in 1906 as a part of protecting its intrinsic natural beauty.
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This law banned the sale of misbranded or mislabeled foodstuffs and created the first consumer protection agency, the FDA.
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President Theodore Roosevelt brought national attention to Devils Tower by passing the Antiquities Act, giving the president the power to set apart national monuments. After seeing the Devil's Tower, President Roosevelt named it as the US' first national monument.
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Teddy Roosevelt left office in early 1909 and visited Africa getting over 500 kills while hunting.
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Roosevelt loses his presidential nomination to his former friend William Taft and is unable to run for the Bull-Moose Party