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Born in New York City on October 27, 1858, Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt was governor of New York before becoming U.S. vice president
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President William McKinley is shaking hands at the Pan-American Exhibition in Buffalo.Leon Czolgosz approaches him and fires two shots into his chest.
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150,000 miners went out on strike again.more than 5,000 Coal and Iron Police guarded the idle collieries in four counties.
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Elkins Act was named for Senator Stephen B. Elkins of West Virginia. Rebates were refunds to businesses which shipped large quantities on the railroads
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In late 1900, Frank Chapman talked to William Dutcher and Theodore Palmer about buying Pelican Island, thereby enabling protection for the island's wildlife.
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The United States presidential election of 1904 resulted in victory for Theodore Roosevelt, who had succeeded to the presidency after the assassination of William McKinley
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The purpose was to protect the public against adulteration of food and from products identified as healthful without scientific support.
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Devils Tower became a national monument. Although the proposal to make the area a national park apparently did not receive much public support.
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Yosemite’s natural beauty is immortalized in the black-and-white landscape photographs of Ansel Adams
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Taft easily won the election defeating William Jennings Bryan in his third and final attempt to gain the Oval Office.
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Theodore Roosevelt, the former U.S. president, is nominated for the presidency by the Progressive Party, a group of Republicans dissatisfied with the renomination of President William Howard Taft.
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Among Theodore Roosevelt's many lifetime accomplishments, few capture the imagination as easily as his military service as a "Rough Rider" during the Spanish-American War.
