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The U.S. stock market crashes for the first time.
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Leon Czolgosz shot President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York
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President William McKinley died. Theodore Roosevelt became President of the United States.
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President Roosevelt invited African American leader Booker T. Washington to the White House. The American South reacted angrily to the visit, and racial violence increased in the region.
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President Roosevelt delivered a 20,000-word speech to the House of Representatives, asking Congress to curb the power of trusts "within reasonable limits."
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A United States federal law that funded irrigation projects for the arid lands of 20 states in the American West.
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An Act To provide for the construction of a canal connecting the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
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The Philippine–American War ended
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The act formulated the concept of the National Guard and also ensured that all state military forces were simultaneously dual reservists under the authority of the Army Reserve.
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An act to break up trusts by the steel, meatpacking, oil, and railroad industries
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Amended the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 and authorized the Interstate Commerce Commission to impose heavy fines on railroads that offered rebates, and upon the shippers that accepted these rebates
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A law of the United States regulating immigration. It codified previous immigration law, and added four inadmissible classes: anarchists, epileptics, beggars, and importers of prostitutes.
