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Foraker Act
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William Mckinley assassination
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Theodore Roosevelt becomes president
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Hay-Pauncefote Treaty
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U.S. requires Panama Canal
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Wright brothers make the first controlled, sustained flight in heavier-than-air aircraft at Kitty
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San Francisco Earthquake
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William Howard Taft becomes president
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Woodrow Wilson becomes president
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17th Amendment is ratified
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Panama canal opens for travel
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First long distance telephone service, between New York and San Francisco, is demonstrated.
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U.S. agrees to purchase Danish West Indies (Virgin Islands) for $25 million.
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Jeannette Rankin of Montana is the first woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.
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World War I: U.S. enters World War I, declaring war on Germany (April 6, 1917) and Austria-Hungary (Dec. 7, 1917) three years after conflict began in 1914
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Wilson begins 2nd term as president
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First regular airmail service begins, with one round trip a day between Washington, DC, and New York
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Influenza epidemic strikes
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Armistice is signed ending WWI
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League of Nations meet for the first time but the U.S. is not present
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18th amendment is ratified
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19th amendment is ratified allowing women to vote
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Outline for the Treaty of Versailles is rejected by the senate