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President William McKinley wins the presidential term once again with Theodore Roosevelt as his vice president against William J. Bryan in 1900. -
After just one season of minor league baseball, The American League of Major League Baseball declares that they are a Major League in 1901. This year signified the year of major league competition. -
President McKinley, shot while innocently shaking hands with fair vistors at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, died a week later from his gunshot wound. -
After a ten million dollar donation from Andrew Carnegie, the Carnegie Institution of Science was formed in Washington, D.C. -
The Electric Theatre in Los Angeles, California becomes the first theatre in America to open in 1902. -
Cuba gained their indepence from the United States of America in 1902. -
Starting on May 23 in San Fransico and ending on August 1 in New York, the very first cross country automobile trip across America occured in 1903. -
In Kill Devil Hill, North Carolina, the Wright inventor brothers sustained the first plane flight which flew for 12 seconds then 59 seconds 852 feet into the air. -
Invented by Benjamin Holt, the very first field tractor in America was used to spread the weight in heavy agricultural machinery. -
Rossevelt becomes the 27th president in 1905. -
The Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition in Portland, Oregon opened in 1905. -
The aftershocks of this tragic earthquake killed 478 residents and started a fire in the area because of the earthquake in 1906. There was a report later of nearly 3,000 dead. -
These two food and meat acts were passed in 1906 to help with the cleanliness of meats and processed foods. -
This short-lived financial crisis in 1907 effected the business community. It was also known as The Bank Panic of 1907. -
The new state of Oklahoma finally formed because of the Oklahoma Territory and the Indian Territory becoming one thus creating the 46th state of America. -
This ironic New Year's Eve tradition was inaugurated in 1908. This was the first time for the ball to drop from a flagpole. -
This was the production of the Model T Ford bulit by the Ford assembly line. It was also one of the first mass production of vehicles in 1908. -
Republican Taft won 321 Electoral Votes over Democrat William Jennings Bryan in 1908. -
After being in Cuba since the Spanish-American War (1898), the American troops were finally able to leave Cuba in 1909. -
This census resulted in the population number of 92,228,496 living in America in 1910. -
Because of an act, the Bureau of Mines within the Department of the Interior was sucessfully authorized in 1910. -
In 1911, Rockefeller's Standard Oil company was declared an unfair monopoly and thus causing The Sherman Antitrust Act to break it up. -
After 20 years of Repulblicans in the White House, Democrat Wilson takes the presidential position in 1912. -
The world's lagest rail terminal opened to the public in 1913 in New York City. -
The 16th Amendment allows for the government treasury to impose income taxes on the states. -
Because of Congress's establishment of the Federal Reserve System, the financial and banking system of America improved greatly. -
In 1914, workers would work a eight hour work day and generously get paid $5 per day. -
Pitching seven innings in a game against the Cleveland Indians, Babe made his major league debut in 1914. He was currently playing for the Boston Red Sox when he won the game. -
As the European conflict that would lead to World War I, President Woodrow Wilson announced that America would remain netural in the growing. -
The mighty ocean liner Lusitania was sunk in 1915 by German U-boat submarine causing 128 Americans were killed on the liner. -
Thomas R. Marshall was Wilson's vice president during his second term in 1916. -
General John Pershing was placed in command of American forces as they went to fight along side their European allies in the begining of World War I in 1917. -
By July 1918, there were more than one million Americans soliders over in Euorpe fighting in World War I. -
The 18th Amendment prohibits alcohol and the transportation of such liquors in the United States. -
This census revealed a 15% increase in the population. There was 106,021,537 people living in America in 1920. -
Women finally receive the right to vote in America because of the 19th Amendent's ratification in 1920. -
Republican Harding becomes the 29th U.S. president in the 1920 election with 16 million popular votes.