1900-1920

  • 1900

    Gold Standard
  • 1901

    Theodore Roosevelt becomes president
  • 1904

    Roosevelt Corollary to Monroe Doctrine
  • 1906

    Hepburn Act
  • 1913

    Sixteen Amendment authorizing income tax ratified
  • 1914

    World War 1 Begins
  • 1915

    KKK revived
  • 1915

    US troops sent to Haiti
  • 1917

    US enters WW1
  • 1918

    WW1 ends
  • 1919

    Eighteen Amendment prohibits alcoholic beverages
  • 1920

    Nineteenth Amendment gives women the right to vote