1900-1920 By Alexiachidester1999 1900 Lacey Act 1901 The Socialist Party of America (SPA), founded 1901 McKinley’s assassination 1903 Women’s Trade Union League (WTUL) was started 1905 John D. Rockefeller donated $100,000 (about $2.5 million today) to the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions 1906 Upton Sinclair published The Jungle 1906 Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act 1906 Hepburn Act Period: 1907 to 1909 The mission of the Great White Fleet 1908 “Buffalo Bill’s Wild West and Pawnee Bill’s Great Far East” 1908 The Davis Act of 1908 1910 Mexican people revolted against Díaz, 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in Manhattan caught fire 1912 Lawrence Textile Strike 1913 United States produced one third of the world’s industrial output 1913 Woodrow Wilson put pressure on Mexico’s new regime. 1913 National Woman’s Party members began to picket the White House 1914 Austria declared war on Serbia 1914 Mexican forces mistakenly arrested American sailors in the port city of Tampico 1914 Huerta government fell 1914 Clayton Anti-Trust Act 1914 Germany declared war on Russia 1914 Great Britain declared war on Germany 1915 Germans sank the RMS Lusitania. 1916 National Defense Act of 1916 1916 Naval Act 1917 regime of Tsar Nicholas II collapsed in Russia 1917 Congress declared war on Germany 1917 Selective Service Act 1917 Espionage Act 1917 Vladimir Lenin’s Bolshevik party came to power. 1918 President Woodrow Wilson declared his support for the women’s suffrage amendment 1918 first groups of women joined the Marine Corps 1918 Sedition Act 1918 Germany launched the Kaiserschlacht Period: 1918 to 1920 flu epidemic that hit nearly 20 percent of the American population. 1919 Red Summer of 1919 1920 Treaty of Sèvres at the San Remo Conference 1920 American Red Scare