1900-1920 By facebooker_173697597679466 1900 William McKinley elected President Apr 2, 1900 Foraker Act 1901 Hay-Pauncefote Treaty 1902 Geary Act 1902 Philippine Government Act May 12, 1902 Coal Strike 1903 Wilber and Orville Wright, Kitty Hawk, NC 1903 Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty 1903 Elkins Act 1904 Theodore Roosevelt elected President 1904 National Child Labor Committee 1906 Hepburn Act 1906 Meat Inspection Act 1908 William Howard Taft elected President 1911 Court case US v Standard Oil 1911 Court case US v American Tobacco Mar 25, 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Company Incident 1912 Arizona and New Mexico declared States of America 1912 Woodrow Wilson elected President 1913 Keating Owens Act Feb 3, 1913 16th Amendment adopted to Constitution May 31, 1913 17th amendment adopted to Constitution 1914 Smith-Lever Act Jun 28, 1914 Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferndinand Started World War I Aug 15, 1914 Panama Canal opened 1915 Court case Guinn v US 1916 Federal Farm Loan Act 1916 Warehouse Act 1916 Federal Highways Act 1916 Adamson Act 1916 Clayton Anti-trust Act Period: 1916 to 1917 Great Slaughter 1917 Court case Buchanan v Worley 1917 Committee on Public Information 1917 Jones Act 1917 Smith-Hughes Act 1917 War Industry Board formed 1917 Food Administration formed 1917 Espionage Act 1917 Selective Service Act Apr 6, 1917 America declared War on Germany Mainly because of the sinking of the Listitania 1918 National War Labor Board formed 1918 Sedition Act 1918 Russian Revolution (Bolshevik Revolution) Nov 11, 1918 Armistice Day Jun 28, 1919 Treaty of Versailles 1920 Court case US v US Steel 1920 19th amendment adopted to Constitution Jan 17, 1920 18th amendment adopted to Constitution