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The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing the United States currency on the gold standard.
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Roosevelt was the 26th American President and served in office from 1901-1909. The Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt spanned the period in United States history that encompasses the events of the Maturation Era or the Gilded Age.
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The first movie theatre in the United States opens in Los Angeles, California. It was known as the Electric Theatre.
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This committee was established with the goal of abolishing all child labor.
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This novel was published by Upton Sinclair. It was a muckraking book about labor exploitation and appalling conditions in meatpacking plants.
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This war began after the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria by a Serbian terrorist group. The outbreak of the World War followed when Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia. America had originally declared neutrality, but the increasing intensity of the war alongside other factors caused the United States to eventually join the war effort.
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This act created 12 Federal Land Banks to provide small farmers with long-term loans at low interest rates.
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This amendment guarantees all American women the right to vote. Achieving this milestone required a lengthy and difficult struggle; victory took decades of agitation and protest.
