Presidency Chart – Theodore Roosevelt (26th) (1901-1909)
The Election of 1904
Domestic Policy
The Progressive Era:
Political reforms
The Square Deal
Major Figures in Roosevelt’s Cabinet
Foreign Policy
“Big Stick” Diplomacy
Continuation of Filipino Insurrection
Northern Securities Case (1902)
Panama Canal Zone
Antracite Coal Strike (1902)
Hay – Buena Varilla Treaty (1903)
Panamanian Revolution
Departments of Commerce and Labor Created
Panama Canal Zone acquired (1904)
Industrial Workers of the World formed (1905)
Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
Conservation:
Newlands reclamation Act (1902)
Taking over Dominican customs duty
National Monuments Act
Arbitration in Venzuela
Chief Forester – Gifford Pinchot
White House Conference on conservation (1908)
Interstate Commerce Commission strengthened
Elkins Act (1903)
Hepburn Act (1906)
The Jungle published (1906)
Russo-Japanese War and the Portsmouth Treaty,
Nobel Peace Prize
Agreements with Japan
Gentlemen’s Agreement (1907)
Root-Takahira Agreement (1908)
Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)
Great White Fleet (1907-1909)
Meat Inspection Act (1906)
Lochner v. New York (1905)
Muller v. Oregon (1908)