1900-1920

By Alexiachidester1999

  • Lacey Act

  • The Socialist Party of America (SPA), founded

  • McKinley’s assassination

  • Women’s Trade Union League (WTUL) was started

  • John D. Rockefeller donated $100,000 (about $2.5 million today) to the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions

  • Upton Sinclair published The Jungle

  • Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act

  • Hepburn Act

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    The mission of the Great White Fleet

  • “Buffalo Bill’s Wild West and Pawnee Bill’s Great Far East”

  • The Davis Act of 1908

  • Mexican people revolted against Díaz,

  • Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in Manhattan caught fire

  • Lawrence Textile Strike

  • United States produced one third of the world’s industrial output

  • Woodrow Wilson put pressure on Mexico’s new regime.

  • National Woman’s Party members began to picket the White House

  • Austria declared war on Serbia

  • Mexican forces mistakenly arrested American sailors in the port city of Tampico

  • Huerta government fell

  • Clayton Anti-Trust Act

  • Germany declared war on Russia

  • Great Britain declared war on Germany

  • Germans sank the RMS Lusitania.

  • National Defense Act of 1916

  • Naval Act

  • regime of Tsar Nicholas II collapsed in Russia

  • Congress declared war on Germany

  • Selective Service Act

  • Espionage Act

  • Vladimir Lenin’s Bolshevik party came to power.

  • President Woodrow Wilson declared his support for the women’s suffrage amendment

  • first groups of women joined the Marine Corps

  • Sedition Act

  • Germany launched the Kaiserschlacht

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    flu epidemic that hit nearly 20 percent of the American population.

  • Red Summer of 1919

  • Treaty of Sèvres at the San Remo Conference

  • American Red Scare