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Platt Amendment
Platt Amendment was signed into law by President William McKinley. The amendment defined the terms of Cuban–U.S. relations to essentially be an unequal one of U.S. dominance over Cuba. -
Assassination of William McKinley
William McKinley was shot at the Temple of Music in Buffalo when he was participating in Pan-American Exposition. He died eight days later. -
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Theodore Roosevelt became a President
Theodore Roosevelt was an American statesman, sportsman, conservationist and writer. He was 26th President of the United States. -
Hay–Pauncefote Treaty
The Hay–Pauncefote Treaty is signed by the United States and Great Britain for the legal preliminary of the U.S. to build the Panama Canal. -
Newlands Reclamation Act
This Act identified 16 states and territories. Much of the West could not have been settled without the water provided by the Act. -
Elkins Act
The Act authorized the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) to impose heavy fines on railroads that offered rebates, and upon the shippers that accepted these rebates. Real freight rates decreased slightly after the enactment of the Act. -
Cuban–American Treaty of Relations
The 1903 Cuban–American Treaty of Relations was a treaty between the Republic of Cuba and the United States. It was used as justification for the Second Occupation of Cuba from 1906 to 1909. -
Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty
Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty was signed by the United States and Panama. It established the Panama Canal Zone and the subsequent construction of the Panama Canal. -
Acquisition of the Panama canal
The US formally took control of the canal property. -
Industrial Workers of the World
Industrial Workers of the World was founded as an international labor union. -
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Niagara Falls conference
It was a meeting of twenty-nine men on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls. It was the first meeting of The Niagara Movement, a group of African-Americans, led by W. E. B. Du Bois, John Hope, and William Monroe Trotter. -
President Theodore Roosevelt won the Nobel Peace Prize
President Theodore Roosevelt won the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts in the negotiations that ended the conflict of the Russo-Japanese War. -
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Algeciras Conference
The purpose of the conference was to find a solution to the First Moroccan Crisis of 1905 between France and Germany. President Theodore Roosevelt persuaded the French to attend a January peace conference in Algeciras. -
Hepburn Act
The Hepburn Act is a 1906 United States federal law that gave the Interstate Commerce Commission the power to set maximum railroad rates and extend its jurisdiction. This led to the discontinuation of free passes to loyal shippers. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 was the first of a series of significant consumer protection laws. -
Aldrich–Vreeland Act
The Aldrich–Vreeland Act was passed in response to the Panic of 1907 and established the National Monetary Commission.It allowed national banks to start national currency associations in groups of ten or more. -
Federal Bureau of Investigation
The Federal Bureau of Investigation was created as a domestic intelligence and security service of the United States. It operates under the jurisdiction of the United States Department of Justice, and the U.S. Intelligence Community. It reports to both the Attorney General and the Director of National Intelligence. -
Root–Takahira Agreement
The Root–Takahira Agreement was an agreement between the United States and the Empire of Japan. The agreement was consisted of an recognition of the territorial status quo as of November 1908, affirmation of the independence and territorial integrity of China, maintenance of free trade and equal commercial opportunities, Japanese recognition of the American annexation of the Kingdom of Hawaii and the Philippines and American recognition of Japan's position in northeast China. -
Found of National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
The purpose of National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is "to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination." -
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William Howard Taft became a President
William Howard Taft was the 27th president of the United States and the tenth chief justice of the United States, the only person to have held both offices. -
Found of Boy Scouts of America
The mission of the Boy Scouts of America is to prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the Scout Oath and Law. -
New Mexico became a state
It was admitted to the Union as the 47th state. -
Arizona became a state
Arizona acquired the admission to Union. -
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Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow Wilson was the 28th president of the United States. During his presidency, the Revenue Act of 1913 was enacted, lowering tariffs and implementing a federal income tax. In early 1917, Wilson asked Congress for a declaration of war against Germany after Germany implemented a policy of unrestricted submarine warfare, and Congress complied. -
Federal Reserve Act
Its long title was an act to provide for the establishment of Federal reserve banks, to furnish an elastic currency, to afford means of rediscounting commercial paper, to establish a more effective supervision of banking in the United States, and for other purposes. -
Establishment of Federal Trade Commission
Its principal mission is the promotion of consumer protection and the elimination and prevention of anticompetitive business practices. -
Territory of Virgin Islands
Treaty of the Danish West Indies was signed and Virgin Islands were were sold to the United States. -
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First Red Scare
The First Red Scare was a period during the early 20th-century history of the United States marked by a widespread fear of Bolshevism and anarchism. -
Declaration of World War I
The U.S. declared war on Germany and entered World War I. -
Fourteen Points
The Fourteen Points was a statement of principles for peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I. -
Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles was the most important of the peace treaties that brought World War I to an end. It was signed in Versailles, France. It required Germany to disarm, make ample territorial concessions, and pay reparations to certain countries that had formed the Entente powers. -
Volstead Act
The National Prohibition Act, known informally as the Volstead Act, was enacted by the 66th United States Congress. The three distinct purposes of the Act were:
to prohibit intoxicating beverages,
to regulate the manufacture, sale, or transport of intoxicating liquor, and
to ensure an ample supply of alcohol and promote its use in scientific research and in the development of fuel, dye, and other lawful industries and practices, such as religious rituals. -
Senate rejects Treaty of Versailles and League of Nations
the Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles based primarily on objections to the League of Nations. The U.S signed separate peace treaties with the Central Powers. -
Sacco and Vanzetti case
The Sacco and Vanzetti case is widely regarded as a miscarriage of justice in American legal history. Sacco and Vanzetti were controversially convicted of murdering a guard and a paymaster. Despite worldwide demonstrations in support of their innocence, they were sentenced to death. Their innocences had not been admitted until 1977. -
Wall Street bombing
The blast killed 30 people immediately, and another eight died later of wounds sustained in the blast. There were 143 seriously injured, and the total number of injured was in the hundreds.