ACCOMPLISHMENTS BY YEAR

1901 - Assumes the Presidency after William McKinley is shot - Administered the Oath of Office at Wilcox Mansion near Buffalo, New York - Invites Booker T. Washington to dine at the White House - Northern Securities Ltd. incorporated in New Jersey - Hay-Pauncefote Treaty clears the way for an interoceanic canal - T.R. appoints Pat Garrett, slayer of Billy the Kid, as Customs Collector of El Paso, Texas - Isthmian Canal Commission, appointed by President McKinley, recommends Nicaraguan canal route - Reprimand of Gen. Nelson Miles for criticizing the President's Philippine Independence programme - Delivers First Annual Message to Congress; first presidential message to yield paperbound offprints

1902 - Instructs Philander Knox to invoke the Sherman Anti-Trust Act against the Northern Securities Company - Initiates Reclamation Policy under Newlands Act - Signs the Isthmian Canal Act - Settles a crippling Coal Strike - Enforces the Monroe Doctrine in Venezuela - Creates the National Park at Creates Crater Lake in Oregon - Gardener Report details atrocities perpertrated upon Filipinos by the U.S. Army - Oregon becomes the first state to institute the initiative and referendum - Visits Yellowstone National Park with John Burroughs - Receives delegation of prominent Jews to discuss the Tsarist-sponsored pogroms in Kishineff, Russia - Visits Yosemite National Park with John Muir - 648,743 immigrants recorded at ports of entry

1903 - Recognizes the Republic of Panama and begins construction of the Panama Canal - Creates the Department of Commerce - Congress passes the Expedition Act to facilitate antitrust prosecutions - Signs the Elkins Rebate Act - Signs the Cuban Reciprocity Treaty - Resolves the Alaskan boundary dispute with Great Britain - Creates the Wind Cave National Park - More than 800,000 immigrants recorded at ports of entry

1904 - Treaty with Panama ratified by the Senate - Nominated for President by the Republican Party - Creates Sully's Hill National Park - Visits the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at the St. Louis World Fair - TR issues Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine

1905 - Negotiates Portsmouth Treaty ending the Russo-Japanese War - Outlines the resolution to the Algeciras Conference - Creates U.S. Forest Service - Beef Trust dismantled - Standard Oil indicted on antitrust charges

1906 - Wins the Nobel Peace Prize - Calls for the establishment of the Roosevelt Foundation for Industrial Peace - T.R. coins the term "muckrake" - Forest Homestead Act - Hepburn Rate Act - Meat Inspection Act - Upton Sinclair publishes The Jungle ; eventually leads to the Food and Drugs Act - 25th Black Infantry Troop posted at Brownsville, Texas, dishonorably discharged by T.R.; decision reversed by Congress in 1972 - Work begins on the Panama Canal - Creates Platt National Park - Creates Mesa Verde National Park - T.R. travels to Panama; first sitting President to travel abroad while in office - Signs U.S. Antiquities Act - Creates Devil's Tower National Monument - Creates El Morro National Monument - Creates Chaco Canyon National Monument - Creates Petrified Forest National Monument - Creates Montezuma Castle National Monument - Sends Victor Metcalf, the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, to California to diffuse the racial tension prompted by the San Francisco School Board's decision to segregate Japanese students - Basic Naturalization Act enacted into law framing the rules for naturalization in effect today - Douglas MacArthur becomes TR's aide-de-camp.

1907 - Santo Domingo Treaty gains de facto international recognition of the Monroe Doctrine - Appoints the Inland Waterways Commission - Tennessee Coal and Iron Conference yields the approval of the merger of Tennessee Coal and Iron Co. and U.S. Steel - Great White Fleet sails on Presidential orders - Creates Cinder Cone National Monument - Creates Lassen Peak National Monument - Creates Gila Cliff National Monument - Creates Tonto National Monument - Oklahoma admitted to the Union as 46th State - Immigration Act is enacted - 1,285,349 immigrants recorded at ports of entry

1908 - Employer's Liability Act - Grand Canyon National Monument declared by T.R. - Governor's Conference held at the White House - U.S. Postage Stamps sold for the first time (cost=$.01) - Muir Woods National Monument declared by T.R. - Root-Takahira agreement affirms China Open Door Policy - Creates Pinnacles National Monument - Creates Jewel Cave National Monument - Creates Natural Bridges National Monument - Creates Lewis & Clark Cavern National Monument - Creates Tumacacori National Monument - Creates Wheeler National Monument (currently part of National Forest System)

1909 - U.S. Marines overthrow Nicaraguan regime - Creates Mount Olympus National Monument - Convenes North American Conservation Congress - Presidential Term expires - Leaves for African Safari

1910-1911 - Speech at Guild Hall in London, England - Flies in Hoxsey's plane; first U.S. president to fly in an airplane - Delivers speech titled "The New Nationalism" in Osawatomie, Kansas - Mexican Revolution begins

1912 - Writes "Conservation of Womanhood and Childhood", the precursor for national legislation protecting women's labor rights and proscribing child labor - Announces candidacy for the Republican Presidential Nomination; declares himself "Strong as a Bull Moose" - Progressive Party formed; TR defects from Republican Party; nominated for President by Progressives - Shot at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, by John Schrank - Woodrow Wilson defeats Roosevelt and Taft in Presidential election of 1912 - Wins libel suit against George S. Newett - On her maiden voyage, the Titanic sinks off the coast of Newfoundland; one of the casualties is Archibald Butt, military aide to President Roosevelt

1913 - Leaves for exploration of the River of Doubt in the Amazon - Federal Reserve System begins operating - 16th Amendment to the Constitution passed into law; permits collection of personal income taxes

1914 through 1918 - Begins exploration of Rio Duvida in the Amazons; river later renamed Rio Roosevelt - Panama Canal officially opened - TR issues statement on Lusitania sinking - Federal Trade Commission begins operations - Nominated again for the Progressive Presidential ticket - Withdraws nomination to support Hughes - U.S. National Park Service created - Offers to help in World War I effort by forming Volunteer Division; rebuked by Woodrow Wilson - President Woodrow Wilson issues his 14 Point plan for a lasting peace; a similar plan for the establishment of an international diplomatic organization was proposed by TR when he was President

1919 - Dies in his sleep at Sagamore Hill - T.R. buried at Young's Cemetery