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Theodore Roosevlet is Born
Theodore Roosevlet is born on october 16th 1858. To his father Theodore Roosevelt Sr. and Martha Bulloch Roosvelt. -
Returns from the Spanish American War as a hero
He was known as the "Rough Rider" and had his own regiment of "Roosevelt's Rough Riders". The Rough Riders participated in two important battles in Cuba. The first action they saw occurred at the Battle of Las Guasimas on June 24, where the Spanish were driven away. The Rough Riders lost seven men with thirty-four wounded. 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 and San Juan Heights on his h -
Named President when McKinley is assassinated
President McKinley is assassinated on September 24th 1901 in Bufflo New York. Vice Preident Theodore Rooseslt is named President. -
Coal Strike of 1902
President Theodore Roosevelt became involved and set up a fact-finding commission that suspended the strike. The strike never resumed, as the miners received a 10% wage increase and reduced workdays from ten to nine hours; the owners got a higher price for coal, and did not recognize the trade union as a bargaining agent. It was the first labor episode in which the federal government intervened as a neutral arbitrator. -
Encounters bear cub while hunting- nicknamed “teddy” 1902
Tehodore roosevelt was on a hunting trip with his firend and encounter a bear. He gets the name "Teddy" from. -
Pelican island, Flordia, named first national wildlife refuge 1903
Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge is a United States National Wildlife Refuge. Established by an executive order of President Theodore Roosevelt on March 14, 1903, Pelican Island was the first national wildlife refuge in the United States. It was created to protect egrets and other birds from extinction through plume hunting. -
Elkin's Act passed 1903
The Elkins Act is a 1903 United States federal law that amended the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887. The Act authorized the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) to impose heavy fines on railroads that offered rebates, and upon the shippers that accepted these rebates. The railroad companies were not permitted to offer rebates. Railroad corporations, their officers, and their employees, were all made liable for discriminatory practices. -
Wins first full term as President
Elected in 1904 to a full term, he continued pursuit of progressive policies, eventually culminating in blockage of his legislative agenda in Congress. -
Devils tower, wyoming, named first national monument 1906
Devils Tower near Hulett and Sundance in Crook County, northeastern Wyoming, above the Belle Fourche River. It is 1,267 feet tall. In 1906 Roosevelt named it the first national monument -
Passage of pure food and drug act 1906
The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 was a key piece of Progressive Era legislation, signed by President Theodore Roosevelt on the same day as the Federal Meat Inspection Act. -
Yosemite National Park
Yosemite national park is in Northen Califorina and was make deamed a national park in 1906. -
Leaves presidency, visits africa 1908
The party set sail from New York City on the steamer Hamburg on March 23, 1909, shortly after the end of Roosevelt's presidency. The party landed in Mombasa, British East Africa (now Kenya), traveled to the Belgian Congo (now Democratic Republic of the Congo) before following the Nile to Khartoum in modern Sudan. Financed by Andrew Carnegie and by his own proposed writings, Roosevelt's party hunted for specimens for the Smithsonian Institution and for the American Museum of Natural History in NY -
Runs for president, unsuccessfully for bull moose party 1912
Rosevelt runs for president under the Progresive party/ Bull moose party. He looses to Wooddrow Wilson but won over Taft which was his goal.
