Timeline of events

  • Jacob Riis published how the other half lives

    Book about thebad things that are going on with people that nobody is aware of.
  • Hull house is founded

  • Sherman anti trust act passed

  • idaho becomes 43rd state

  • Yosemite national park was created

  • Wounded knee massacre

  • Pullman strike

  • Plessy vs Ferguson

    Trial about segregation.
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    William McKinley as president

  • De Lome letter was published

  • Hawaii annexed

  • U.S Maine explodes

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    Spanish American war

  • American anti imperialist league organized

  • Open door policy announced

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    Theodore Roosevelt as president

  • William McKinley assasinated

  • Roosevelt corollary issued

  • U.S aquire panama canal

  • Niagra falls conference

  • Upton Sinclair publishes "the Jungle"

  • Pure food and drug act and meat inspection act

    check food before sell it. more healthy foods.
  • Gentlemens agreement

  • NAACP was founded

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    William Taft as president

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    Dollar diplomacy

    Took place during William Tafts presidency.
  • 16th ammendment ratified

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    Woodrow Wilson as president

  • 17th Amendment ratified

  • Henry ford develops modern assembly line.

  • Assassination of Archduke ferdinand

  • Zimmerman telegram was published

  • W.W.1 Congress declares was-armistice

  • Sedition act passed

  • 18th Amendment ratified

  • Treaty of Versailles

    Treaty signed by Germany and other allied nations after the war
  • 19th Amendment ratified