Progressive Movement

  • Thomas Edison invents the electric light.

  • Jane Addams founds Hull House.

  • North American Women's Suffrage Association is founded.The Sherman Antitrust Act.

  • Alcohol Ban

  • North American Women's Suffrage Association is founded.The Sherman Antitrust Act.

  • The Homestead Strike.

  • NAACP is founded.

  • The Sixteenth Amendment is ratified.The Seventeenth Amendment is ratified.

  • The USS Lusitania is sunk by a German submarine