1900-1920

  • U.S. Steel Corporation founded

  • Pure Food and Drug Act signed into law by President Roosevelt

  • Gentleman's Agreement of 1907 signed, stopping all immigration from Japan to America

  • Oklahoma becomes a state

  • Triangle Shirtwaist factory catches fire, killing 146 workers

  • Standard Oil Corporation is order to be dissolved

  • RMS Lusitania is sunk, killing 128 Americans

  • The U.S. declares war with Germany, entering World War I

  • World War I ends

  • Congress proposes the 19th Amendment, giving women the right to vote