Major Events in Roosevelt’s Presidency

1901

Hay-Pauncefote Treaty -Panama Canal open to British and U.S. ships on equal terms.

 

1902

Roosevelt Appoints Oliver Wendall Holmes Jr. From Massachusetts to the Supreme Court (Retires in 1932)

Chinese Exclusion Act

Crater Lake National Park

Newlands Reclamation Act

Isthmian Canal Act

Philippine Government Act – Territorialized Citizens

Anthracite Coal Strike

 

1903

Department of Commerce and Labor Established

Elkins Anti-Rebate Act

First Federal Bird reservation

Revolt in Panama - Panama recognized as a republic - Hay-Buneau-Varilla Treaty

 

1904

Presidential Campaign - Roosevelt vs. Alton Parker

Roosevelt Announces He Won’t Run in 1908

Panama Canal Commission

 

1905

National Forest Service Established – Gifford Pinchot 

The Niagara Movement and the NAACP

Portsmouth Treaty

 

1906

Brownsville

San Francisco Earthquake

National Monuments Act

Hepburn Act

Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act

Roosevelt Visits Panama

Roosevelt awarded Nobel Peace Prize

Straus appointed to Commerce and Labor

 

1907

Immigration Act of 1907

Inland Waterways Commission Established

The Panic of 1907

Oklahoma Statehood 

Great White Fleet

 

1908

Restricting Japanese Immigration

Child Labor Law

National Commission for the Conservation of Natural Resources

Ford introduces the “Model T”

Taft Elected