Unit 12

  • Pan-American Conference

  • Maine Explosion in Havana harbor

    Also the year of the Spanish-American War.
  • National Consumers League founded

  • Hawaii receives full territorial status

  • American Socialist party formed

  • U.S. troops leave Cuba

  • Lincoln Steffens and Ida Tarbell publish muckraking exposes

  • Wilson defeats Taft and Roosevelt for presidency

  • 17th Amendment passed

  • Federal Reserve Act

  • WWI begins in Europe

  • Germany declares submarine war area around British Isles

  • U.S. exports to European belligerents skyrocket

    Wilson defeats Hughes for presidency also in this year.
  • Puerto Ricans granted U.S. citizenship

  • Women's Bureau established in Department of Labor

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