The Age of Reform

By ClovieKnowles

  • Hawaii becomes apart of the U.S.

  • American Hall of Fame founded.

  • Work on New York Subway begins

  • Galveston Hurricane

  • 1st Automobile show opens at Madison Square Garden (NYC)

  • US Population exceeds 75 million

  • U.S. passes Platt Amendment

  • The College Board introduces its first standardized test, start of the SAT.

  • Charlotte Manye is the 1st native African to graduate from any US college

  • Cadillac Motor Company founded

  • U.S. Steel founded by John Morgan

  • Hay- Pauncefote Treaty

  • Construction begins on New York Stock Exchange.

  • President William Mckinley Assassinated

  • Theodore Roosevelt is in office.

  • 1st U.S. Junior Highschools open in Berkeley, California.

  • The Boy Scouts of America founded.

  • Father's Day celebrated for the 1st time in Spokane, Washington.

  • 1st commercially successful electric bus line opens in Hollywood.

  • Explosion at LA Times kills 21.

  • New Mexico becomes 47th state of the Union.

  • 1st US federal cemetery with Union & Confederate graves opens in Missouri.

  • The US House of Representatives votes to institute direct elections of senators to Congress, a step towards direct democracy.

  • Beverly Hills Hotel opens.

  • Film and television production/distribution studio Paramount Pictures is founded.

  • 1st US group insurance policy written in Passaic, NJ.

  • Arizona was admitted to the Union as the 48th state.

  • RMS Titanic sinks at 2:27 AM off Newfoundland.

  • Massachusetts passes 1st US minimum wage law.

  • US army tests 1st machine gun mounted on a plane.

  • Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market with the Ford Model.

  • 17th amendment provides for election of senators by popular vote.

  • The USA introduces an income tax.

  • 1st US dental hygienists course forms in Bridgeport, Connecticut

  • US President Woodrow Wilson signs Federal Reserve Act into law.