1900 1920

American Timeline 1900-1920

By Ctleach33
  • Theodore Roosevelt

    Theodore Roosevelt

    Theodore Roosevelt becomes President
  • Hepburn Act

    Hepburn Act

    Pure Food and Drug Act
  • Woodrow Wilson

    Woodrow Wilson

    Election of Woodrow Wilson
  • Sixteen Amendment

    Sixteen Amendment

    Sixteen Amendment authorizing income tax ratified.
  • Seventeenth Amendment

    Seventeenth Amendment

    Seventeenth Amendment providing for direct elections of Senators ratified
  • World War 1

    World War 1

    World War 1 begins
  • Haiti

    Haiti

    U. S. troops sent to Haiti
  • Lusitania sunk

    Lusitania sunk

    Lusitania was torpedoed by German U-boat.
  • U.S. enters WW1

    U.S. enters WW1

    U.S. enters WW1 due to the sinking of the Lusitania.
  • WW1 ends

    WW1 ends

    WW1 ends
  • Eighteenth Amendment

    Eighteenth Amendment

    Eighteenth Amendment prohibits alcoholic beverages
  • Nineteenth Amendment

    Nineteenth Amendment

    Nineteenth Amendment gives women the right to vote.