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Devastating hurricane in Galveston, Texas
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U.S. population is over 75,000,000
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William McKinley is re-elected president of the U.S.
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President McKinley shot
President McKinley is shot twice on September 6 by anarchist Leon Czolgosz, while touring the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. One bullet was removed, but the doctors were unable to find the second. McKinley dies on September 14. Theodore Roosevelt becomes the twenty-sixth president. -
First successful airplane flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina by Orville and Wilbur Wright
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Theodore Roosevelt inaugurated president
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San Francisco's great earthquake
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Oklahoma becomes the 46th state in the U.S.
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First Model T Ford introduced
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William Howard Taft inaugurated as twenty-seventh president.
Teddy Roosevelt leaves for hunting trip in Africa. -
Boy Scouts of America and Camp Fire Girls Organization founded
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Calbraith Perry Rodgers makes the first transcontinental flight across the U.S.
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Titanic sinks
The RMS Titanic sinks, April 15, 1912, causing the deaths of 1,514 people. -
Woodrow Wilson is inaugurated as the 28th president.
Democrat Woodrow Wilson defeats Republican William H. Taft, Bull Moose Theodore Roosevelt and Socialist Eugene V. Debs for the presidency -
Henry Ford introduces moving assembly line
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Federal Reserve Bank established
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Transcontinental phone service from New York to San Francisco
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand and wife Sophie assassinated in Sarajevo; World War I begins
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The Lusitania is sunk off the coast of Ireland and the Coast Guard is formed
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Woodrow Wilson is re-elected on "He Kept Us Out of War" slogan
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National Park Service created
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U.S. Congress declares war on Germany and passes the Selective Service Act, entering World War I.
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18th Admendment
On August 1, 1917 the Senate passes a resolution with the language of the 18th Amendment to ban the sale, distribution, and manufacture alcoholic beverages. This then needed to be ratified by 36 states. -
In June 1918 the Italian Army successfully defeats the Austrian army at the Piave River, a major turning point in World War I. The U.S. supports Italy with needed materials such as coal and steel.
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"Spanish flu" influenza epidemic becomes global pandemic
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Grand Canyon National Park is established in Arizona
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"Black Sox" baseball scandal
9 men are accused of throwing the World Series in exchange for money from gamblers. One of whom is Shoeless Joe Jackson, one of the greatest to ever play. -
Versailles Peace Conference in France.
Negotiations for end of World War I. U. S. Senate will refuse to ratify resulting treaty due to League of Nations. -
19th Amendment ratified; gives women the right to vote