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Born on New York, New York, Theodore Roosevelt is born to Theodore "Thee" Roosevelt, Sr. and Martha "Mittie" Bulloch.
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After McKinley's re-election with Roosevelt as VP, McKinley gets assassinated and Roosevelt is the new President.
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After five months of strikes by anthracite miners, Roosevelt unprecedentedly intervened and ended the strike himself, settling up the Anthracite Strike Commission.
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With Frank Chapman's encouragement, Roosevelt establishes Pelican Island in the Indian River Lagoon as the first National Bird Reserve.
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Passed by Roosevelt to stop rebates on the Pennsylvania Railroad, as held up by the Interstate Commerce Commission.
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Roosevelt, as the Republican Party's candidate, goes up against Democratic nominee Alton B. Parker and wins with 336 electoral votes.
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After an investigation following the release of Upton Sinclaire's "The Jungle", Roosevelt helps to pass the Pure Food and Drug Act, calling for knowledge of what's in food and drugs as shown on labels.
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A formation of laccolithic butte in northeastern Wyoming in the Bear Lodge Mountains; was the first declared National Monument by Theodore Roosevelt.
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Having its gorgeous meadows slowly destroyed by domestic sheep grazing, Yosemite becomes federally protected to help imortalize the park's beauty.
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Sure that he was leaving the nation in good hands, after enjoying his multiple trips to Europe and the Middle East as a boy, Roosevelt decides to go on an African safari.
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Roosevelt runs for a third term for the Progressive Party, also known as the "Bull Moose Party", and loses to Woodrow Wilson by a very close popular vote.
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