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Theodore Roosevelt was born on October 27, 1858, in New York City. He was the 26th U.S president and is remembered for his leadership during the Progressive Era. -
After President William McKinley was assassinated in 1901, his vice president, Theodore Roosevelt, was sworn in as the 26th President of the United States. -
The Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902 caused an energy crisis when 147,000 Pennsylvania miners stopped working over low pay and poor conditions. -
An Act signed by President Theodore Roosevelt to end the practice of railroad rebates. It made it illegal for railroads to give rebates to favored customers and made both the railroad corporation and the shipper liable for this practice. -
Established as a federal bird reservation, its creation was a response to the ever-decline of bird populations from feather hunting and aimed to protect the remaining brown pelican nesting habitat. -
Theodore Roosevelt won his first full term as President in the 1904 presidential election. -
President Theodore Roosevelt brought Yosemite under federal control in 1906 following a historic 1903 camping trip with John Muir. During their 3-day trip, Muir inspired Roosevelt to act, and the resulting Yosemite Recession Bill was signed into law in 1906. -
An Act signed into law by President Theodore Roosevelt, prohibiting the interstate sale of misbranded or adulterated root and drugs and preventing the introduction of dangerous ingredients into food and medicines. -
Devil's Tower is a laccolithic butte, composed of igneous rock in the Bear Lodge Ranger District of the Black Hills, near Hulett and Sundance in Crook County, northeastern Wyoming, above the Belle Fourche River. -
After Theodore Roosevelt left the presidency in March of 1909, he immediately embarked on an 11-month African safari. -
Republican split: Roosevelt, who had served as president from 1901 to 1909, decided to run for the Republican nomination in 1912 under the Bull Moose Party, against his handpicked successor, William Howard Taft.