• William McKinley elected President

  • Foraker Act

  • Hay-Pauncefote Treaty

  • Geary Act

  • Philippine Government Act

  • Coal Strike

  • Wilber and Orville Wright, Kitty Hawk, NC

  • Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty

  • Elkins Act

  • Theodore Roosevelt elected President

  • National Child Labor Committee

  • Hepburn Act

  • Meat Inspection Act

  • William Howard Taft elected President

  • Court case US v Standard Oil

  • Court case US v American Tobacco

  • Triangle Shirtwaist Company Incident

  • Arizona and New Mexico declared States of America

  • Woodrow Wilson elected President

  • Keating Owens Act

  • 16th Amendment adopted to Constitution

  • 17th amendment adopted to Constitution

  • Smith-Lever Act

  • Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferndinand

    Started World War I
  • Panama Canal opened

  • Court case Guinn v US

  • Federal Farm Loan Act

  • Warehouse Act

  • Federal Highways Act

  • Adamson Act

  • Clayton Anti-trust Act

  • Period: to

    Great Slaughter

  • Court case Buchanan v Worley

  • Committee on Public Information

  • Jones Act

  • Smith-Hughes Act

  • War Industry Board formed

  • Food Administration formed

  • Espionage Act

  • Selective Service Act

  • America declared War on Germany

    Mainly because of the sinking of the Listitania
  • National War Labor Board formed

  • Sedition Act

  • Russian Revolution (Bolshevik Revolution)

  • Armistice Day

  • Treaty of Versailles

  • Court case US v US Steel

  • 19th amendment adopted to Constitution

  • 18th amendment adopted to Constitution