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Theodore Roosevelt Born
Theodore Roosevelt was born in October 27, 1858, in New York into one of the old Dutch families which had settled in America in the seventeenth century.
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1906/roosevelt-bio.html
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McKinley Assassination
On the afternoon of September 6, 1901, a 28 year old anarchist shot President William McKinley in the stomach during a public reception at the Pan-American Exposition, a World’s Fair in Buffalo, New York. Vice President Theodore Roosevelt was immediately sworn in as president.
http://www.history.com/news/the-assassination-of-president-william-mckinley
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Energy Crisis - Anthracite Coal Strike
The Coal strike of 1902 was a strike in the anthracite coal field of Pennsylvania threatened a coal famine. The meeting Theodore Roosevelt and Congress had marked the turn of the U.S. Government from strikebreaker to peacebreaker in industrial disputes.
https://www.dol.gov/oasam/programs/history/coalstrike.htm
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Pelican Island
President Theodore Roosevelt established Pelican Island in the Indian River Lagoon as the first federal bird reservation giving birth to the National Wildlife Refuge System.
https://www.fws.gov/refuge/pelican_island/about/history.html
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Elkins Act
The Elkins Act is a federal law that amended the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887. It authorized the ICC to impose heavy fines on railroads that offered rebates, anf uopn the shippers that accepted these rebates. The railroad companies are not permitted to offer rebates.
://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/Learn-About-TR/TR-Encyclopedia/Capitalism-and-Labor/The-Elkins-Act.aspx
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Election of 1904
In 1904, Theodore Roosevelt won election to the presidency in his own right. He won both popular vote and electoral vote.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/1600/presidents/theodoreroosevelt
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Devils Tower
President Theodore Roosevelt brought national attention to Devils tower by authorizing the Antiquities Act. The act gives president the power to set aside national monument. Devils Tower became the first national monument in the same year.
http://www.wyohistory.org/encyclopedia/devils-tower
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Yosemite under Federal Control
In 1903, Roosevelt visited Muir in Yosemite. In 1906, the state-controlled Yosemite Valley came under federal jurisdiction with the rest of the park.
http://vault.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/people/roosevelt.aspx
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Pure Food and Drug Act
The first Pure Food and Drug Act was passed in 1906. The purpose was to protect the public against adulteration of food and from product identified as healthful without scientific support.
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h917.html
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Leaves presidency, visits Africa
Leaving the Presidency in 1909, Roosevelt went on an African safari. The African safari, commissioned as a scientific expedition by the Smithsonian Institution, involved trapping or shooting over 11,000 animals.
http://www.theodoreroosevelt.org/site/c.elKSIdOWIiJ8H/b.8344379/k.2B69/The_Hunter.htm
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Bull Moose Party
Theodore Roosevelt was nominated for the presidency by the Bull Moose Party, a group pf Republicans dissatisfied with the renomination of President William Howard Taft. Roosevelt and Taft splitted votes of Republican Party.
http://www.ushistory.org/us/43f.asp
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/teddy-roosevelt-nominated-as-bull-moose-candidate
