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Mary Harris Jones organized the children's crusade in Kingston, Pennsylvania to Theodore Roosevelt's home in Easter Bay, New York.
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Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine.
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IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) was created in Chicago to enforce industrial unionism
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Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle", was published and targeted unhealthy meat and packaging habits.
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The Mexican Revolution began.
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United States Children's Bureau was created to seek ''all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people."
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Henry Ford introduces the first moving assembly line for his automobiles.
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World War I begins and the Panama Canal opens for the first time.
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The Paris Peace Conference took place. Also the senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles.
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The first radio broadcast was aired and Warren G. Harding was elected president.