5. He attended Harvard from 1876 to 1880.
6. While at Harvard, he engaged in a lot of clubs, literary activities, and athletics.
7. In 1878, he met Alice Hathaway Lee with whom he fell in love with and married several months after his graduation..
8. On February 14, 1884, death took both his mother and his wife while she was giving birth to their daughter Alice.
9. During the Spainish war, eager to leave administrative duties and participate in actual combat, he resigned his post as act secretary in May 1898 to serve as lieutentant colone under Leonard Wood.
10. He formed a group of volunteers that became the First Volunteer Cavalry Regiment, also known as the Rough Riders.
11. On July 1, 1898, he led his men on a charge up San Juan hill in Cuba. The charge made the Rough Riders famous. He later reffered to that day as “the great day of my life.”
12. He won the race for governor of New York by a small majority.
13. Though he did not like the position, he decided to follow his party’s desires and be McKinley’s running mate for vice president. He bacame president after McKinley was shot in Buffalo on september 6, 1901.
14. He formed the Progressive or Bull Moose party

Presidential Facts

1. He Enraged southern politicians when he invited black educator and leader Booker T. Washington to dine with him at the white house.
2. In May 1902, when coal miners refused to negotiate with workers, he announced he would appoint an investigative commision and thresatened to use U.S. army troops to run the mines. The commision’s report led to the nine-hour day, a ten-percent increase in pay, and a process for negotiating disputes within the industry.
3. He sued Northern securities company (a group of railroad companies run as though they were one company to reduce competition and control prices) for violating the Sherma Antitrust Act of 1890, which violated mergers of it’s kind.
4. He established most of his judgings on what he called a square deal. This meant Americans were not to be given special privileges because of how rich or poor they were.
5. In 1904, he added to what became known as the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine,  when Venzuela was in dept to the United Kingdom and Germany.
6. He began construction of the Panama canal.
7. He passed the Pure Food and Drug Act.
8. He set aside more than 235 million acres of public land to be prtected from private expliotation. This land also included Yosemite national park.
9. In 1906, he recieved the Noble Peace Prize for negotiating the peace Treaty of Portsmouth which ended the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-1905.
10. He passed the Gentlemen’s Agreement of 1907 which controlled the Japanese immigration.
11. To display U.S. power to the world, in 1907 he ordered a world tour by the U.S. fleet (Great White Fleet). It was intended to impress Japan, who instead, recieved it with great enthusiasm.