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U.S. Supreme Court rule for segragation of whites and blacks but both have to have the same amount of facilities. This dosent distinguish on the quality of the facilities.
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The battleship Maine blows up and sinks anchored in Cuba's Havana harbor.
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The delegates from the US and 25 other nations come together at The Hague, discussing current events and tactics of warfare.
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The United States and Japan have an agreement that Japan will limit the amount of japanese laborers entering the United States
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Oil is found at Spindletop, near Beaumont, Texas. This would make the United States very wealthy and help with foreign affairs.
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United States steel is organized and became the first billion dollar company in the U.S.
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The United Mine workers stage a strike against arthracite coal mine. President Roosevelt appointed a staff to oversee the settlement.
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Oregon was the first state to start the initiative and referendum meaning the people can initiate legislation
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Panama breaks off from Columbia rule, making way for the American Canel.
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The brother to make the first successful flight on an aircraft, lasting only 12 seconds in the town of Kitty Hawk N.C.
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The president anncounces the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Dictorine.
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The US supreme court strikes down on New York law that prohibited a banker from employing a person more than 60 hours or more a week. They argued that it interfiered with the contract.
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Socialists and labor workers form the international workers of the world with a representative from the western federation of miners, this aims to give the working class economic power instead of being ruled over.
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The great earthquake of san francisco kills 400 people and causes 500 million dollars in damages.
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The anit black riot leaves 21 dead and 18 of them being african americans.
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The San Francisco school boards ban all chinese, japanese, and koreans from theirs schools. The president makes them change.
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The great white fleet was 16 battleships to set sail for an around the world adventure.
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Henry Ford releases the first family affordable car, the model T. They origanily sold for 800 then dropped to 240 by 1926.
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The Man act makes it illegal to transport women across state lines, or into the united states for moral purpoes.
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146 Jewish and Italian immigrants are killed in the fire of a Triangle Shirtwaist Company in New York.
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25,000 textile workers go on strike against the American Woolen Co. of Lawreance mass
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Theodore Roosevelt is killed in shot in Milwalkee hotel during a campaign tour. He even gave a speach before going to the hospital.
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An exhibition of artwork is open to the public in New York's 69th regiment armory
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A man named Leo Frank who is a Jew, was linched for murdering a man in the pencil company of Atlanta.
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Henry Ford funds a peace ship in efforts to end the brutal battle of World War I.
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Mexican Revolutionary Pancho Villa crosses the border into US land and president Wilson send general "Black Jack" to take him down.
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A bomb explodes goes off at a pro-war parade in San Francisco killing 10 people.
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The United States military brings on the draft, forcing all men ages 21-30 to enlist in the forces.
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American agents take down members of the IWW and comunist party in 33 cities in the United States also deporting over 500 iligal aliens.
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The Womens Suffrage Amendment is added to the U.S. constitution. This was not easy, it took a lot of fighting, marching and percuading to do this. Before this time everyone thought men were better than women. This is the time where it made everyone equal once again.
