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WCTU was founded.
Mass organization among women devoted to social reform with a program that "linked the religious and the secular through concerted and far-reaching reform strategies based on applied Christianity." -
Dawes Act.
Adopted by Congress in 1887, authorized the President of the United States to survey Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians. Dawes Act was amended in 1891 and again in 1906 by the Burke Act. -
NWSA.
American women's rights organization formed in May 1890 as a unification of the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) and the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA). -
Anti-Saloon league founded.
Organization lobbying for prohibition in the United States in the early 20th century. -
William Mckinley is elected presdient
He defeated his Democratic rival, William Jennings Bryan, after a front-porch campaign and won the republican nomination. -
Minnesota Primary System.
Minnesota passes the nation's first direct primary election law, which applies to candidates running for city and county offices in counties with a population of 200,000 or more. -
Galveston Hurricane & Tidal wave.
The hurricane caused great loss of life with the estimated death toll between 6,000 and 12,000 individuals. -
William Mckinley is reelected.
McKinley defeated Bryan again in the 1900 presidential election, in a campaign focused on imperialism, prosperity, and free silver. -
American Socialist Party.
Multi-tendency democratic-socialist political party in the United States, formed in 1901 by a merger between the three-year-old Social Democratic Party of America and disaffected elements of the Socialist Labor Party which had split from the main organization in 1899. -
Mckinley is assassinated.
McKinley was shaking hands with the public when he was shot by Leon Czolgosz, an anarchist. The President died on September 14 from gangrene caused by the bullet wounds. -
Theodore Roosevelt becomes president.
Republican candidate Theodore Roosevelt was successfully elected to a full term. Roosevelt had succeeded to the presidency upon the assassination of William McKinley and was unanimously nominated for president at the 1904 Republican National Convention. -
Muller Vs. Oregon.
The case upheld Oregon state restrictions on the working hours of women as justified by the special state interest in protecting women's health. The ruling had important implications for protective labor legislation. -
William H Taft is elected president.
President Theodore Roosevelt, honoring a promise not to seek a third term, persuaded the Republican Party to nominate William Howard Taft, his close friend and Secretary of War, to become his successor. -
W.E.B Du Bois helps found NAACP
Its mission is “to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination”. -
Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire.
Factory workers were trapped in a fire due to violations of the fire code, protests and reformed followed. -
Woodrow Wilson is elected presaident.
Wilson defeated Taft, Roosevelt, and Debs in the general election, winning a large majority in the Electoral College and 42% of the popular vote, while his nearest rival, Roosevelt, won only 27%. -
Keating Owen Act.
The Keating-Owen Child Labor Act of 1916 also known as Wick's Bill, was a statute enacted by the U.S. Congress which sought to address child labor by prohibiting the sale in interstate commerce of goods produced by factories that employed children under fourteen, mines that employed children younger than sixteen, and any facility where children under sixteen worked at night or more than eight hours daily. -
Woodrow Wilson is reelected.
President Woodrow Wilson, the Democratic candidate, was pitted against Supreme Court Justice Charles Evans Hughes, the Republican candidate. After a hard-fought contest, Wilson defeated Hughes by nearly 600,000 votes and a narrow Electoral College margin by winning several swing states by razor-thin margins. -
Eighteenth Amendment outlaws alcoholic beverages.
The Amendment was proposed by Congress on December 18, 1917, when it passed the Senate after it had passed the House the day earlier. The Amendment was ratified on January 16, 1919, went into effect one year later on January 16, 1920, and was repealed by the 21st Amendment on December 5, 1933. -
Nineteenth Amendment grants women the right to vote.
Passed by Congress June 4, 1919, and ratified on August 18, 1920, the 19th amendment guarantees all American women the right to vote.
