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The United States becomes the world's leading manufacturing nation.
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The Socialist Party of America is founded.
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Theodore Roosevelt is elected president.
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Killed in Buffalo, New York by Leon Czolgosz.
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Act passed after Upton Sinclair published "The Jungle".
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Made to regulate and control the power of the railroads.
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An agreement with Japan which said that Japanese immigrants could not enter the U.S.
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William Howard Taft is elected as president.
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Woodrow Wilson is elected as president.
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World War 1 begins after the assassination of an Austrian archduke.
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Work had begun on the Panama Canal 10 years.
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The Lusitania is torpedoed by German U-boats, killing 1,198 people.
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America declares war on Germany. The Zimmerman telegram, which was sent between Germany and Mexico, was one of the reasons they entered the war.
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About 50 million people died because of it, while in WW1 about 16 million died.
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World War 1 was called the "war to end all wars".
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The Eighteenth Amendment made alcohol illegal to make or sell.
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American Women now have the right to vote.