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Maine explosion in Havana harbor
Spanish-American War
Teller Amendment
Dewey's victory at Manila Bay
Hawaii annexed -
Senate ratifies treaty acquiring Philippines
Aguinaldo launches rebellion against United States in Philippines
First American Open Door note -
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Hawaii receives full territorial status
Foraker Act for Puerto Rico
Boxer Rebellion and U.S. military expedition to China
Second Open Door note
McKinley defeats Bryan for presidency -
Supreme Court Insular Cases
Platt Amendment
McKinley assassinated; Roosevelt becomes president
Filipino rebellion suppressed
Hay-Pauncefote Treaty with Britain gives United States exclusive right to build Panama Canal -
Commission system established in Galveston, Texas
Progressive Robert La Follette elected governor of Wisconsin
American Socialist Party of America formed -
U.S. troops leave Cuba
Colombian senate rejects U.S. por postal for canal across Panama -
Lincoln Steffens and Ida Tarbell publish muckraking exposés
Anthracite coal strike
New lands Act -
Panamanian revolution against Colombia
Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty gives United States control of Canal Zone in newly independent Panama -
Department of Commerce and Labor established Elkins Act
Women's Trade Union League founded -
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Northern Securities case
Roosevelt wins election to first full term as president -
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United States takes over Dominican Republic customs service
Roosevelt mediates Russo-Japanese peace treaty -
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San Francisco Japanese education crisis
Roosevelt arranges Algeciras Conference -
Hepburn Act
Upton Sinclair publishes The Jungle
Meat Inspection Act
Pure Food and Drug Act -
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Muller v. Oregon
Taft defeats Bryan for presidency
Aldrich-Vreeland Act -
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Ballinger-Pinchot affair
Washington State grants woman suffrage -
Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire
Standard Oil antitrust case
U.S. Steel Corporation antitrust suit
California grants woman suffrage -
Taft wins Republican nomination over Roosevelt
Wilson defeats Taft and Roosevelt for presidency
Arizona, Kansas, and Oregon grant woman suffrage
Children's Bureau established in Department of Labor -
Seventeenth Amendment passed (direct election of U.S. senators)
Federal Reserve Act
San Francisco decides to build HetchHetchy Reservoir -
Underwood Tariff Act
Sixteenth Amendment (income tax)
Federal Reserve ct
Huerta takes power in Mexico -
Clayton Anti-Trust Act
Federal Trade Commission established
U.S. Seizes port of Veracruz, Mexico
World War I begins in Europe -
La Follette Seaman's Act
Lusitania torpedoed and sunk by German U-boat
Germany declares submarine war area around British Isles -
Sussex ultimatum and pledge
U.S. exports to European belligerents skyrocket
Workingmen's Compensation Act
Federal Farm Loan Act
Warehouse Act
Adamson Act
Pancho Villa raids New Mexico
Brandeis appointed to Supreme Court
Jones Act
Wilson defeats Hughes for presidency -
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Germany resumes unrestricted submarine warfare
Zimmermann note
Railroads placed under federal control
United States enters World War I
Espionage Act of 1917
Wilson calls for "peace without victory"
Bolshevik Revolution -
Wilson proposes Fourteen Points
Sedition Act of 1918
Battle of Château-Thierry
Second Battle of the Marne
Meuse-Argonne offensive -
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