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For the first time, railroads connect the entire country, from coast to coast.
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Congress passes the Pendleton Act, fighting against patronage.
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The United States overtakes Britain as largest producer of stell, thanks in large part to industrialist Andrew Carnegie.
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Nation votes in Theodore Roosevelt, who would end up being a champion of progressive reforms.
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Upton Sinclair write groundbreaking novel "The Jungle", exemplifying horrors in the meat packing industry and causing public outrage.
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Taft creates the Federal Reserve System as a benchmark of Progressive economic ideals.
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The Woman's Christian Temperance Union lobbies to make prostitution widely illegal, rather than widely legal as it was before.
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The Eighteenth Amendment prohibits alcohol in the United States; actual consumption only drops by half.
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The congress ratifies the nineteenth amendment, granting suffrage to women federally.
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The Twenty First Amendment repeals the Eighteenth and Alcohol is once again legal.
