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