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William McKinley is assassinated
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26th U.S. President
Theodore Roosevelt becomes the 26th U.S. president -
Wright brothers make first airplane
Wilbur and Orville Wright made four brief flights at Kitty Hawk with their first powered aircraft. The Wright brothers had invented the first successful airplane. -
The Jungle Novel by Upton Sinclair
Sinclair wrote the novel to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities. -
Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906
Its main purpose was to ban foreign and interstate traffic in adulterated or mislabeled food and drug products, and it directed the U.S. Bureau of Chemistry to inspect products and refer offenders to prosecutors -
Federal Meat Inspection Act of 1906
an American law that makes it a crime to adulterate or misbrand meat and meat products being sold as food, and ensures that meat and meat products are slaughtered and processed under strictly regulated sanitary conditions. -
T-Model
Henry Ford makes T-Model car -
Election of 1908
presidential election between William Howard Taft and William Jennings Bryan. -
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27th U.S. President
William Howard Taft becomes the 27th president of the United States -
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city, and one of the deadliest in U.S. history. -
Sinking of the RMS Titanic
The Titanic hits an iceberg and sinks in the Atlantic Ocean killing over 1,500 people. -
Election of 1912
Presidential election between Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, and William Taft -
16th Amendment ratified
allows Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states on the basis of population. -
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28th U.S. President
Woodrow Wilson becomes the 28th President of the United States -
17th Amendment
gives voters the power to directly elect their senators. -
Federal Reserve Act
Congress developed the Federal Reserve Act to establish economic stability in the United States by introducing a central bank to oversee monetary policy. -
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria is assassinated
Archduke Ferdinand and his wife were assassinated by Princip, a member of a Serbian nationalist terrorist group fighting against Austria-Hungary's rule over Bosnia. This started WWI -
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World War I
Also known as "the great war" involved most of the major countries of Europe along with the United States. Separated countries between the Central Powers, and the Allied Powers -
Panama Canal Completed
he Panama Canal officially opened on August 15, 1914, although the planned grand ceremony was downgraded due to the outbreak of WWI. Completed at a cost of more than $350 million, it was the most expensive construction project in U.S. history to that point -
Sinking of the RMS Lusitania
During World War I the Lusitania was sunk by a German torpedo, resulting in great loss of life. Killed over 100 American lives. Motivated U.S. involvement in WWI -
Sussex Pledge
Germany promised not to sink passenger ships without warning and to give civilians thirty minutes to leave any ship -
U.S. entry into WW1
The U.S. enters WWI siding with the Allied Powers -
18th Amendment
prohibiting the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcoholic beverages for consumption -
Treaty of Versailles signed
the most important of the peace treaties that brought World War I to an end. -
19th Amendment
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.
