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U.S Steel Founded
Founded by the famous industrialist Andrew Carnegie, the company grew to be one of the largest in the United States. -
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William McKinley - President
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William McKinley Assasination
President McKinley was shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at in Buffalo, New York. -
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Theodore Roosevelt - President
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NAACP Founded
The NAACP or The National Association for The Advancement of Colored People was founded by W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells, Mary White Ovington and others. -
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William H. Taft - President
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Woodrow Wilson - President
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RMS Lusitania Sinks
The British liner the RMS Lusitania was sank by a German U-boat killing nearly 1200 people. -
Zimmerman Telegram
A telegram was intercepted from Germany to Mexico offering an alliance between Germany and Mexico if the U.S. joined the allies in World War I. -
U.S. Enters World War I
With rising German aggression against democracy and the U.S., President Wilson asked congress to enter the "war to end all wars". -
Armistice Day
With Germany outnumbered and outgunned, on the 11th hour, of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, World War I ended.