20th Century

By Caw98

  • Teddy Roosevelt becomes president

    Roosevelt becomes president after McKinley is shot and killed.

  • Roosevelt dines with Booker T. Washington

  • Coal Minor strike

    Coal minors in PA protest against their working conditions and defend better pay

  • Coal Strike ends

  • Elkins act

  • Roosevelt appoints consruction of Panama Canal

  • Roosevelt establishes National Forest Service

  • "The Jungle" is published

  • Hepburn act is passed

  • Food and Drug act is passed

  • Financial panic starts

  • Financial panic starts

  • Court opposes union

  • Muller vs. Oregon

  • Taft fires Pinchot

  • Roosevelt declines Tafts' invitation to White House

  • Taft signs Postal Savings Bank Act

  • National Urban League is formed

  • Department of Labor forms

  • Oil Antitrust

  • Asch building fire

  • Standard Oil Company dissolved

  • La Follette Collapses

  • Taft wins republican presidential nomination

  • Taft wins republican presidential nomination

  • Congress passes new labor law

    The max limit for a person working under federal contract is 8 hours per day

  • Woodrow Wilson is nominated for president

  • Roosevelt is nominated for president

  • Vice President John Sherman dies

  • Wilson wins presidential election

  • Wilson inaugurated as 28th president

  • Taft signs Panama Canal Act