Roosevelt Timeline Project

  • Theodore Roosevelt is born

    Theodore Roosevelt is born

    Born to Martha Stewart Bulloch and Theodore Roosevelt Sr. in Manhattan New York.
  • Named President after McKinley's assassination

    Named President after McKinley's assassination

    After William McKinley was assassinated by an anarchist at the Pan-American Exposition in New York, Theodore Roosevelt was named the 26th U.S. President
  • Energy crisis - Anthracite Coal Strike

    Energy crisis - Anthracite Coal Strike

    147,000 coal miners strike for 20% pay raise, that created an energy crisis. ended when Theodore Roosevelt established the Anthracite Coal Commision.
  • Elkins Act Passed

    Elkins Act Passed

    A U.S law signed by Theodore Roosevelt that outlawed the practice of Giving rebates to large shippers, eliminating unfair pricing in the railroad industry.
  • Pelican Island, Florida named first national wildlife refuge

    Pelican Island, Florida named first national wildlife refuge

    Established by Theodore Roosevelt to protect brown pelicans and other birds from overhunting, and became the first of what became the National Wildlife Refuge System.
  • Yosemite under Federal Control

    Yosemite under Federal Control

    President Theodore Roosevelt visited Yosemite with naturalist John Muir, which resulted in Roosevelt signing the Yosemite Recession Bill in 1906, which returned Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove to federal control.
  • Wins first full term as President

    Wins first full term as President

    Theodore Roosevelt won his first full term as President in the election of 1904, where his opponent was Democratic nominee Alton B. Parker.
  • Passage of Pure Food and Drug Act

    Passage of Pure Food and Drug Act

    An act that prohibited sale of adulterated or misbranded food and drug. Passed by Roosevelt after public outcry of Upton Sinclair 's novel The Jungle, that had exposed the unsanitary conditions of the meatpacking industry.
  • Devils Tower, Wyoming

    Devils Tower, Wyoming

    Declared as the Nations first National Monument by Theodore Roosevelt
  • Leaves Presidency, Visits Africa

    Leaves Presidency, Visits Africa

    After his two terms and Taft was inaugurated, Roosevelt embarked in a ten month hunting safari in Africa.
  • Runs for presidency, unsuccessfully for Bull-Moose Party

    Runs for presidency, unsuccessfully for Bull-Moose Party

    In the 1912 presidential election, Theodore Roosevelt ran as the candidate for the Progressive Bull-Moose Party but was unsuccessful, finishing second behind Democrat Woodrow Wilson.