1900-1920

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  • 1900

    Gold Standard

  • 1901

    Theodore Roosevelt becomes President

  • 1904

    Roosevelt Corollary to Monroe Doctrine
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    1904-1914

    Panama Canal built

  • 1906

    Hepburn Act, Pure Food and Drug Act
    The Jungle

  • 1912

    Election of Woodrow Wilson

  • 1913

    Sixteen Amendment authorizing income tax ratified
    Seventeenth Amendment providing for direct elections of Senators ratified
    Federal Reserve System begun
    Wilson broadens segregation in civil service

  • 1914

    World War 1 begins
    U. S. troops occupy Vera Cruz

  • 1915

    U. S. troops sent to Haiti
    Lusitania sunk, U. S. intervened
    KKK revived

  • 1916

    Germany issues Sussex pledge

  • 1917

    Russian Revolution
    U.S. enters WW1

  • 1918

    WW1 ends
    Treaty of Versailles

  • 1919

    Eighteenth Amendment prohibits alcoholic beverages
    Red Scare

  • 1920

    Nineteenth Amendment gives women the right to vote
    First radio station KDKA in Pittsburgh