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Plessy v. Ferguson
US Supreme Court rules that segregation of blacks and whites as long as they had seprate Facilities. This is about the time The Rosa Parks story started -
U.S.S Maine
The battleship Maine blows up and sinks while anchored in Cuba's Havana harbor. It was the United States Navy's second commissioned pre-dreadnought battleship, -
President McKinely
President McKinley signs a resolution annexing Hawaii Islands, making them part of the United States.The annexation of the Hawaiian Islands was one illustration of how the United States emerged on the world stage in new and unprecedented ways during the presidency of William McKinley. -
Population
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Oil discovery
Oil is discovered at Spindletop near Beaumont, Texas. The strike at Spindletop represented a turning point for Texas and the nation -
U.S Steel Corporation
U.S. Steel is organized, becoming the country's first billion dollar corporation. -
Assination of President McKinley
President William McKinley is shot in Buffalo, N.Y. by Leon Czolgosz, an anarchist. The president died on September 14, and we wa succeeded by Theodore Roosevelt. -
United Mine Workers
The United Mine Workers stage a strike against anthracite coal mine operators. President Roosevelt appointed a commission to mediate the settlement. -
Monroe Doctrine
President Theodore Roosevelt announces the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine. -
Great San Francisco Earthquake
The California earthquake of April 18, 1906 ranks as one of the most significant earthquakes of all timeThe Great San Francisco Earthquake kills 400 people and causes $500 million worth of damage. -
Race Riot
An anti-black riot in Atlanta results leaves 21 people dead, including 18 African Americans. Racial segregation became more formalized. -
The Great White Fleet
"The Great White Fleet," consisting of sixteen battleships, sets sail for an around the world cruise. The Great White Fleet was the popular nickname for the United States Navy battle fleet that completed a circumnavigation of the globe from 16 December 1907 to 22 February 1909 by order of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt. -
New York City Movies
New York City revokes the licenses of the city's movie theaters and returns them only when the theaters agree not to show immoral films. -
Mann-Elkins Act
The Mann-Elkins Act extends the authority of the Interstate Commerce Commission to include telegraph and telephone companies and gives it the power to suspend railroad rate increases pending investigation and court rulings. -
Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire
146 Jewish and Italian immigrant women are killed in a fire at New York's Triangle Shirtwaist Company. -
Theodore Roosevelt Shot
Theodore Roosevelt is shot in a Milwaukee hotel during a campaign tour. Roosevelt delivered a speech before going to a hospital. -
Coal Miners Strike
Company guards and National Guard troops attack striking coal miners at John D. Rockefeller's Colorado Fuel & Iron Co. in Ludlow, Colo. When the Ludow War is over, 74 people had died, including eleven children. -
Panama Canal
The Panama Canal officially opens. After 10 years of construction and much multination diplomacy, the Panama Canal opened for operation -
D.W. Griffith: Birth of a Nation
D.W. Griffith's luridly racist film, Birth of a Nation, provides a sympathetic treatment of the Ku Klux Klan. it wa orginally called Clansman. -
Nevada Divorces
Nevada grants divorces after six months' residence. -
Military Draft
The United States institutes a military draft. All men 21-30 are required to register. -
Leo Frank
Leo Frank, a Jew, is lynched in Atlanta, for allegedly murdering an employee at the National Pencil Company. -
Peace Plan
President Woodrow Wilson issues his 14 Point plan for a lasting peace. It calls for open peace treaties without secret agreements; freedom of the seas; arms reductions, and establishment of a League of Nations. French Prime Minister Clemenceau responds: "Even God Almighty has only ten." -
Palmer Raids
Palmer Raids. Under orders from Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, Department of Justice agents raid the headquarters of leftist organizations in a dozen cities. -
Woman's Suffrage Amendment
The Woman's Suffrage Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is ratified.
