1900's

By clairejackson

  • 1900

    Galveston hurricane

  • 1902

    Drago Doctrine

  • 1903

    Wright Brother's make their first powered flight

  • 1905

    Niagra Falls conference

  • 1906

    Hepburn act

  • 1907

    Oklahoma becomes a state

  • 1906

    Pure food and Drug Act

  • 1908

    Ford Model T appears on market

  • 1906

    San Francisco earthquake

  • 1909

    US penny changed to Abraham Lincoln

  • 1907

    coal mine explodes in Monogah, West Virginia

  • 1909

    William Howard Taft becomes president

  • 1910

    Mann-Elkins act

  • 1908

    Federal Bureau of investigation created

  • 1910

    Mann Act

  • 1913

    New York's Grand Central Terminal Opens

  • 1910

    Boy Scouts Established in U.S.

  • 1910

    Halley's Comet Makes an Appearance

  • 1911

    Ernest Rutherford Discovers the Structure of an Atom

  • 1911

    The Incan City of Machu Picchu Discovered

  • 1912

    Oreo Cookies First Introduced

  • 1912

    The Titanic Sinks

  • 1914

    World War I Begins

  • 1914

    Archduke Ferdinand Assassinated

  • 1914

    Babe Ruth Pitches His First Game and Hits His First Home Run With Red Sox

  • 1914

    First Traffic Light

  • 1915

    Czar Nicholas II Personally Takes Control of the Russian Army

  • 1915

    Klu Klux Klan Revived

  • 1915

    One Millionth Model T Rolls Off Assembly Line

  • 1916

    First Use of Tanks in Warfare

  • 1916

    Jeanette Rankin Becomes First Woman to Serve in U.S. Congress

  • 1916

    John D. Rockefeller Becomes America's First Billionaire

  • 1917

    First Pulitzer Prizes Awarded

  • 1917

    U.S. Enters World War I

  • 1918

    Russian Czar Nicholas II and His Family are Killed

  • 1919

    Hitler Joins the Nazi Party

  • 1919

    Treaty of Versailles Ends World War I

  • 1920

    Prohibition Begins in the U.S.

  • 1920

    Women Granted the Right to Vote in U.S.