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The creation of Yosemite National Park
A national park in California famous for its waterfalls and rock formations -
Hull House was founded
Jane Addams founded the first ever Hull House. -
Jacob Riis Published "How the Other Half Lives"
An 1890 report on the social conditions of the Lower East Side, based on a journalist's night rounds with a New York city health inspector. -
Sherman Antitrust Act Passed
Prohibited trusts. -
Idaho becomes a state
Idaho bacame the 43rd state. Go potatoes...and gems. -
Wounded Knee Massacre
The last battle of the American Indian Wars. On the day before, a detachment of the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment commanded by Major Samuel M. Whitside intercepted Spotted Elk's band of Miniconjou Lakota and 38 Hunkpapa Lakota near Porcupine Butte and escorted them five miles westward (8 km) to Wounded Knee Creek, where they made camp; and then fought. -
Pullman Strike
The Pullman Strike was a nationwide railroad strike in the United States in the summer of 1894. It pitted the American Railway Union against the Pullman company, the main railroads, and the federal government of the United States under President Grover Cleveland. -
Plessy v, Ferguson
Plessy attempted to sit in an all-white railroad car. After refusing to sit in the black railway carriage car, Plessy was arrested for violating an 1890 Louisiana statute that provided for segregated “separate but equal” railroad accommodations. Those using facilities not designated for their race were criminally liable under the statute. At trial with Justice John H. Ferguson presiding, Plessy was found guilty on the grounds that the law was a reasonable exercise of the state’s police -
McKinley becomes President
William McKinley becomes President. -
The De Lôme Letter
A note written by Señor Don Enrigue Dupuy de Lôme, the Spanish Ambassador to the United States, to Don José Canelejas, the Foreign Minister of Spain, reveals de Lôme's opinion about the Spanish involvement in Cuba and President McKinley's diplomacy. -
The USS Maine Exploding in Havana Harbor
The USS Maine explodes. -
Spanish-American War
A conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States, the result of American intervention in the Cuban War of Independence. American attacks on Spain's Pacific possessions led to involvement in the Philippine Revolution and ultimately to the Philippine–American War. -
The American Anti-Imperialist League was organized
The American Anti-Imperialist League was an organization established on June 15, 1898, to battle the American annexation of the Philippines as an insular area. -
The Republic of Hawaii annexed
The Republic of Hawaii became Hawaii: the exotic and colorful American Island. -
The Open Door Policy is announced
1899-1900; The policy of granting equal trade opportunities to all countries. -
President McKinley was assassinated
President William McKinley was assassinated. -
America acquired the Panama Canal Zone
The Panama Canal is a 77.1-kilometre ship canal in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. The canal cuts across the Isthmus of Panama and is a key conduit for international maritime trade -
Roosevelt Corollary issued
The corollary states that the United States will intervene in conflicts between European countries and Latin American countries to enforce legitimate claims of the European powers, rather than having the Europeans press their claims directly. -
Upton Sinclair publishes "The Jungle"
Sinclair wrote the novel to portray the lives of immigrants in the United States. Many readers were most concerned with his exposure of practices in the American meatpacking industry during the early 20th century, based on an investigation he did for a socialist newspaper. -
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The Niagara Falls Movement
Organization of black intellectuals led by W.E.B. DuBois and calling for full political, civil, and social rights for black Americans. -
The Pure Food and Drug and Meat Inspection Act
An United States federal law that provided federal inspection of meat products and forbade the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated food products and poisonous patent medicines. -
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Gentleman's Agreement
Between the United States and Japan--represented an effort by President Theodore Roosevelt to calm growing tension between the two countries over the immigration of Japanese workers. -
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Dollar Diplomacy
The effort of the United States—particularly under President William Howard Taft—to further its aims in Latin America and East Asia through use of its economic power by guaranteeing loans made to foreign countries. -
NAACP was founded
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is an African-American civil rights organization in the United States. -
Taft becomes President
William Taft becomes President. -
Wilson becomes President
Woodrow Wilson becomes President. -
16th Amandment
The Constitution allowed the Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on the United States Census. -
17th Amendment
A change to the Constitution; allowing voters to cast direct votes for U.S. Senators. -
Henery Ford's Modern Assembly Line
This is where a product is made one step at a time as it passes through a line. This allows for mass production of products at a cheaper price than trying to build an entire product one at a time. What Henry Ford did was apply this concept to the automobile and perfect it for mass production of cars at a much lower price than current production methods. -
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World War 1
World War I was an extremely bloody war that engulfed Europe from 1914 to 1919, with huge losses of life and little ground lost or won. Fought mostly by soldiers in trenches, World War I saw an estimated 10 million military deaths and another 20 million wounded. While many hoped that World War I would be "the war to end all wars," in actuality, the concluding peace treaty set the stage for World War II. -
The Zimmerman Telegram was published
The Zimmermann Telegram (or Zimmermann Note) was a 1917 diplomatic proposal from the German Empire for Mexico to join the Central Powers, in the event of the United States entering World War I on the side of the Entente Powers. -
The Sedition Act was passed
The United States Congress that extended the Espionage Act of 1917 to cover a broader range of offenses, notably speech and the expression of opinion that cast the government or the war effort in a negative light or interfered with the sale of government bonds. -
18th Amendment
The United States Constitution prohibited the manufacture, sale, transport, import, or export of alcoholic beverages. -
The Treaty Of Versailles
The treaty imposed on Germany by the Allied powers in 1920 after the end of World War I which demanded exorbitant reparations from the Germans -
19th Amendment
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Roosevelt becomes President
Theodore Roosevelt becomes President.