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