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John Pierpont Morgan founds one of the biggest steel companies in the early 20th Century.
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William McKinley is assassinated in Buffalo, New York.
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Roosevelt becomes President the same day William McKinley is assassinated.
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Henry ford founds one of the biggest motor companies in the United States.
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President Roosevelt gives his Corollary, stating that the U.S. has the right to intervene in foreign affairs in the Western Hemisphere.
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William Taft becomes the twenty-seventh president of the United States.
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The NAACP is founded by W. E. B. DuBois.
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New Mexico becomes the 48th state to be in the US.
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Arizona becomes the 49th state in the US.
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The widely known sinking of the Titanic occurs.
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The 16th Amendment allowed the US to apply a nationwide income tax.
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The 17th Amendment allows citizens to vote for senators in each state.
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Woodrow Wilson becomes the 28th president of the United States
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A German ship sinks the Lusitania, killing over a hundred American citizens. This would be the beginning of America transitioning into WWI.
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US Congress declaring war on Germany would enter the country into the great war, better known as World Was I.
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Woodrow Wilson would propose a list of fourteen points which he hoped would be the beginning point for peace. The most important point coming out of this being the League of Nations.
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The 18th Amendment prohibited any sale, production, or transport of alcohol.
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The 19th Amendment allowed women to vote from then and into the future history of the US.
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The Treaty of Versailles in 1918 is signed, signalling the end of World War One, with the Allied Powers coming out on top.
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The US Senate for the first time rejects a peace treaty due to negotiations with President Woodrow Wilson going nowhere.