1900-1920

  • U.S Steel Founded

    Founded by the famous industrialist Andrew Carnegie, the company grew to be one of the largest in the United States.
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    William McKinley - President

  • William McKinley Assasination

    President McKinley was shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at in Buffalo, New York.
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    Theodore Roosevelt - President

  • NAACP Founded

    The NAACP or The National Association for The Advancement of Colored People was founded by W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells, Mary White Ovington and others.
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    William H. Taft - President

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    Woodrow Wilson - President

  • RMS Lusitania Sinks

    The British liner the RMS Lusitania was sank by a German U-boat killing nearly 1200 people.
  • Zimmerman Telegram

    A telegram was intercepted from Germany to Mexico offering an alliance between Germany and Mexico if the U.S. joined the allies in World War I.
  • U.S. Enters World War I

    With rising German aggression against democracy and the U.S., President Wilson asked congress to enter the "war to end all wars".
  • Armistice Day

    With Germany outnumbered and outgunned, on the 11th hour, of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, World War I ended.