The U.S. history timeline 1900-1920

By maxxiao11

  • McKinley's is shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz in Buffalo, N.Y.

  • Theodore Roosevelt.

    He later dies from his wounds and is succeeded by his vice president, Theodore Roosevelt.

  • U.S. acquires Panama Canal Zone.

  • Wright brothers

    Wright brothers make the first controlled, sustained flight in heavier-than-air aircraft at Kitty Hawk, N.C.Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk.

  • Roosevelt Corollary to Monroe Doctrine.

  • San Francisco earthquake

  • Hepburn Act

  • Hepburn Act, Pure Food and Drug Act

  • Oklahoma was established as the 46th state.

  • The Creation of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

  • The first model T Ford was built

  • Root-Takahira Agreement

  • the 27th president

    William Howard Taft is inaugurated as the 27th president.

  • Standard Oil was dissolved after the United States Supreme Court ruled it an illegal monopoly.

  • New Mexico became the 47th state

  • Arizona became the 48th state.

  • Sinking of the Titanic.

  • Theodore Roosevelt was shot during his campaign

  • Wilson broadens segregation in civil service

  • The Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America was adopted.

  • Woman Suffrage Procession

  • the 28th president.

    Woodrow Wilson was inaugurated as the 28th president.

  • The Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America was adopted

  • The first World War began

  • Panama Canal completed

  • long distance telephone service

    First long distance telephone service, between New York and San Francisco, is demonstrated.

  • Lusitania sunk

  • The great Migration of African Americans began

  • Jones Act

  • Zimmermann Telegram

  • The United States declared war on the German Empire

  • 1918 flu pandemic

  • The first world war armistice

  • The eighteenth Amendment

    The eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed, outlawing the making, transportation, and sale of alcohol.
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    Steel strike

  • The Treaty of Versailles was rejected by the Senate

  • The 19th Amendment

    The 19th Amendment to the CONSTITUTION of the United States prohibits any American citizen from being denied the right to vote because of his or her sex.

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