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Theodore Roosevelt becomes the 26th U.S. president
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Wilbur and Orville Wright made four brief flights at Kitty Hawk with their first powered aircraft. The Wright brothers had invented the first successful airplane.
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Sinclair wrote the novel to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities.
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Its main purpose was to ban foreign and interstate traffic in adulterated or mislabeled food and drug products, and it directed the U.S. Bureau of Chemistry to inspect products and refer offenders to prosecutors
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an American law that makes it a crime to adulterate or misbrand meat and meat products being sold as food, and ensures that meat and meat products are slaughtered and processed under strictly regulated sanitary conditions.
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Henry Ford makes T-Model car
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presidential election between William Howard Taft and William Jennings Bryan.
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William Howard Taft becomes the 27th president of the United States
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the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city, and one of the deadliest in U.S. history.
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The Titanic hits an iceberg and sinks in the Atlantic Ocean killing over 1,500 people.
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Presidential election between Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, and William Taft
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allows Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states on the basis of population.
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Woodrow Wilson becomes the 28th President of the United States
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gives voters the power to directly elect their senators.
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Congress developed the Federal Reserve Act to establish economic stability in the United States by introducing a central bank to oversee monetary policy.
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Archduke Ferdinand and his wife were assassinated by Princip, a member of a Serbian nationalist terrorist group fighting against Austria-Hungary's rule over Bosnia. This started WWI
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Also known as "the great war" involved most of the major countries of Europe along with the United States. Separated countries between the Central Powers, and the Allied Powers
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he Panama Canal officially opened on August 15, 1914, although the planned grand ceremony was downgraded due to the outbreak of WWI. Completed at a cost of more than $350 million, it was the most expensive construction project in U.S. history to that point
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During World War I the Lusitania was sunk by a German torpedo, resulting in great loss of life. Killed over 100 American lives. Motivated U.S. involvement in WWI
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Germany promised not to sink passenger ships without warning and to give civilians thirty minutes to leave any ship
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The U.S. enters WWI siding with the Allied Powers
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prohibiting the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcoholic beverages for consumption
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the most important of the peace treaties that brought World War I to an end.
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The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.
