american timeline 1876--1919

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  • IMMIGRANTS AND URBANIZATION

    IMMIGRANTS AND URBANIZATION
    Porfirio Diaz seizes power in Mexico.

  • IMMIGRANTS AND URBANIZATION

    IMMIGRANTS AND URBANIZATION
    Rutherford B. Hayes is elected president.

  • LIFE AT THE TURN OF THE 20TH CENTURY

    LIFE AT THE TURN OF THE 20TH CENTURY
    Bicycling touring club founded in Europe.

  • IMMIGRANTS AND URBANIZATION

    IMMIGRANTS AND URBANIZATION
    James A. Garfield is elected president.

  • IMMIGRANTS AND URBANIZATION

    IMMIGRANTS AND URBANIZATION
    Chester A. Arthur succeeds Garfield after Garfield's assassination.

  • LIFE AT THE TURN OF THE 20TH CENTURY

    LIFE AT THE TURN OF THE 20TH CENTURY
    Construction of the Brooklyn Bridge is completed.

  • IMMIGRANTS AND URBANIZATION

    IMMIGRANTS AND URBANIZATION
    Grover Cleveland is elected president.

  • IMMIGRANTS AND URBANIZATION

    IMMIGRANTS AND URBANIZATION
    Berlin Conference meets to divide Africa among European nations.

  • LIFE AT THE TURN OF THE 20TH CENTURY

    LIFE AT THE TURN OF THE 20TH CENTURY
    Fifteen-nation conference on the division of Africa convences in Berlin.

  • IMMIGRANTS AND URBANIZATION

    IMMIGRANTS AND URBANIZATION
    Indian National Congress forms.

  • IMMIGRANTS AND URBANIZATION

    IMMIGRANTS AND URBANIZATION
    Benjamin Harrison is elected president.

  • LIFE AT THE TURN OF THE 20TH CENTURY

    LIFE AT THE TURN OF THE 20TH CENTURY
    Electric trolleys are first introduced.

  • LIFE AT THE TURN OF THE 20TH CENTURY

    LIFE AT THE TURN OF THE 20TH CENTURY
    Barnum & Bailey Circus in London.

  • THE PROGRESSIVE ERA

    THE PROGRESSIVE ERA
    Eiffel Tower opens for visitors.

  • IMMIGRANTS AND URBANIZATION

    IMMIGRANTS AND URBANIZATION
    Grover Clevenland is elected to a second term.

  • LIFE AT THE TURN OF THE 20TH CENTURY

    LIFE AT THE TURN OF THE 20TH CENTURY
    Ida B. Wells crusades against lynching

  • IMMIGRANTS AND URBANIZATION

    IMMIGRANTS AND URBANIZATION
    France establishes Indochina.

  • America Claims An Empire

    America Claims An Empire
    Business groups, aided by U.S. marines, overthroe Hawaii's Queen Liliuokalani.

  • AMERICA CLAIMS AN EMPIRE

    AMERICA CLAIMS AN EMPIRE
    Guglielmo Marconi develops the technology that led to modern radio.

  • IMMIGRANTS AND URBANIZATION

    IMMIGRANTS AND URBANIZATION
    William McKinley is elected president.

  • LIFE AT THE TURN OF THE 20TH CENTURY

    LIFE AT THE TURN OF THE 20TH CENTURY
    Supreme Court establishes "seperatebut-equal" Doctrine in Plessy v. Ferguson.

  • THE PROGRESSIVE ERA

    THE PROGRESSIVE ERA
    William McKinley is elected president.

  • IMMIGRANTS AND URBANIZATION

    IMMIGRANTS AND URBANIZATION
    Hawaii is annexed by the United States.

  • THE PROGRESSIVE ERA

    THE PROGRESSIVE ERA
    Marie Curie discovers radium.

  • AMERICA CLAIMS AN EMPIRE

    AMERICA CLAIMS AN EMPIRE
    U.S.S. Maine explodes and sinks. The Spanish American War begins.

  • LIFE AT THE TURN OF THE 20TH CENTURY

    LIFE AT THE TURN OF THE 20TH CENTURY
    Austria psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud publishes The Interpretation of Dreams.

  • THE PROGRESSIVE ERA

    THE PROGRESSIVE ERA
    Boer War in South Africa begins.

  • IMMIGRANTS AND URBANIZATION

    IMMIGRANTS AND URBANIZATION
    McKinley is reelected.

  • LIFE AT THE TURN OF THE 20TH CENTURY

    LIFE AT THE TURN OF THE 20TH CENTURY
    William McKinley is reelected.

  • THE PROGRESSIVE ERA

    THE PROGRESSIVE ERA
    William McKinley is reelected.

  • AMERICA CLAIMS AN EMPIRE

    AMERICA CLAIMS AN EMPIRE
    In China the Boxers rebel.

  • IMMIGRANTS AND URBANIZATION

    IMMIGRANTS AND URBANIZATION
    The Commonwealth of Australia is founded.

  • LIFE AT THE TURN OF THE 20TH CENTURY

    LIFE AT THE TURN OF THE 20TH CENTURY
    McKinley is assassinated.

  • LIFE AT THE TURN OF THE 20TH CENTURY

    LIFE AT THE TURN OF THE 20TH CENTURY
    Theodore Roosevelt becomes president.

  • THE PROGRESSIVE ERA

    THE PROGRESSIVE ERA
    McKinley is assassinated; Theodore Roosevelt becomes president.

  • THE PROGRESSIVE ERA

    THE PROGRESSIVE ERA
    Commonwealth of Australia is created.

  • AMERICA CLAIMS AN EMPIRE

    AMERICA CLAIMS AN EMPIRE
    Theodore Roosevelt becomes president after McKinley is assassinated.

  • IMMIGRANTS AND URBANIZATION

    IMMIGRANTS AND URBANIZATION
    The Wright Brothers achieve the first successful airplane flight.

  • AMERICA CLAIMS AN EMPIRE

    AMERICA CLAIMS AN EMPIRE
    Panama declares its independencce from Columbia.

  • LIFE AT THE TURN OF THE 20TH CENTURY

    LIFE AT THE TURN OF THE 20TH CENTURY
    Theodore Roosevelt is elected president.

  • IMMIGRANTS AND URBANIZATION

    IMMIGRANTS AND URBANIZATION
    Workers revolt in St. Petersburg, Russia.

  • IMMIGRANTS AND URBANIZATION

    IMMIGRANTS AND URBANIZATION
    Oil is discovered in Persia.

  • LIFE AT THE TURN OF THE 20TH CENTURY

    LIFE AT THE TURN OF THE 20TH CENTURY
    Henry Ford introduces the Model T.

  • LIFE AT THE TURN OF THE 20TH CENTURY

    LIFE AT THE TURN OF THE 20TH CENTURY
    William H. Taft is elected president.

  • THE PROGRESSIVE ERA

    THE PROGRESSIVE ERA
    William H. Taft is elected president.

  • AMERICA CLAIMS AN EMPIRE

    AMERICA CLAIMS AN EMPIRE
    William Howard Taft is elected president.

  • LIFE AT THE TURN OF THE 20TH CENTURY

    LIFE AT THE TURN OF THE 20TH CENTURY
    W.E.B. Du Bois helps found the National Assossiation for the Advancement of Colored people (NAACP).

  • IMMIGRANTS AND URBANIZATION

    IMMIGRANTS AND URBANIZATION
    The appearence of Halley's comet causes widespread panic.

  • LIFE AT THE TURN OF THE 20TH CENTURY

    LIFE AT THE TURN OF THE 20TH CENTURY
    Mexican Revolution begins.

  • AMERICA CLAIMS AN EMPIRE

    AMERICA CLAIMS AN EMPIRE
    The Mexican Revolution begins.

  • IMMIGRANTS AND URBANIZATION

    IMMIGRANTS AND URBANIZATION
    Woodrow Wilson is elected president.

  • IMMIGRANTS AND URBANIZATION

    IMMIGRANTS AND URBANIZATION
    Qing dynasty in China is overthrown.

  • LIFE AT THE TURN OF THE 20TH CENTURY

    LIFE AT THE TURN OF THE 20TH CENTURY
    Woodrow Wilson is elected president.

  • LIFE AT THE TURN OF THE 20TH CENTURY

    LIFE AT THE TURN OF THE 20TH CENTURY
    China's Qin dynasty topples.

  • LIFE AT THE TURN OF THE 20TH CENTURY

    LIFE AT THE TURN OF THE 20TH CENTURY
    Woodrow is elected president.

  • AMERICA CLAIMS AN EMPIRE

    AMERICA CLAIMS AN EMPIRE
    Woodrow Wilson is elected president.

  • IMMIGRANTS AND URBANIZATION

    IMMIGRANTS AND URBANIZATION
    Panama Canal opens.

  • LIFE AT THE TURN OF THE 20TH CENTURY

    LIFE AT THE TURN OF THE 20TH CENTURY
    World War 1 begins in Europe.

  • AMERICA CLAIMS AN EMPIRE

    AMERICA CLAIMS AN EMPIRE
    World War 1 begins in Europe.

  • AMERICA CLAIMS AN EMPIRE

    AMERICA CLAIMS AN EMPIRE
    The Panama Canal opens.

  • THE FIRST WORLD WAR

    THE FIRST WORLD WAR
    Hollywood, California, becomes the center of movie production in the U.S.

  • THE FIRST WORLD WAR

    THE FIRST WORLD WAR
    Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife are assassinated.

  • THE FIRST WORLD WAR

    THE FIRST WORLD WAR
    Germany declares war on Russia and France. Great Britain declares war on Germany and Austria Hungary.

  • THE FIRST WORLD WAR

    THE FIRST WORLD WAR
    German U-boats sink the Lusitania, and 1,198 people die.

  • THE FIRST WORLD WAR

    THE FIRST WORLD WAR
    Alexander Graham Bell makes first transcontinental telephone call.

  • THE FIRST WORLD WAR

    THE FIRST WORLD WAR
    Albert Einstein proposes general theory of relativity.

  • LIFE AT THE TURN OF THE 20TH CENTURY

    LIFE AT THE TURN OF THE 20TH CENTURY
    Woodrow Wilson is reelected.

  • THE FIRST WORLD WAR

    THE FIRST WORLD WAR
    Woodrow Wilson is reelected president.

  • THE FIRST WORLD WAR

    THE FIRST WORLD WAR
    The battles of Verdun and Somme Claim millions of lives.

  • AMERICA CLAIMS AN EMPIRE

    AMERICA CLAIMS AN EMPIRE
    Puerto Rico becomes U.S. citizens.

  • AMERICA CLAIMS AN EMPIRE

    AMERICA CLAIMS AN EMPIRE
    The United States enters World War 1.

  • AMERICA CLAIMS AN EMPIRE

    AMERICA CLAIMS AN EMPIRE
    Mexico revises and adopts its constitution.

  • THE FIRST WORLD WAR

    THE FIRST WORLD WAR
    The Selective Service Act sets up the draft.

  • THE FIRST WORLD WAR

    THE FIRST WORLD WAR
    The United States declared war on Germany.

  • THE FIRST WORLD WAR

    THE FIRST WORLD WAR
    Russia withdraws from the war.

  • THE FIRST WORLD WAR

    THE FIRST WORLD WAR
    Congress passes the Sedition Act.

  • THE FIRST WORLD WAR

    THE FIRST WORLD WAR
    President Wilson proposes the League of Nations.

  • THE FIRST WORLD WAR

    THE FIRST WORLD WAR
    The Bolsheviks establish a Communist regime in Russia.

  • THE FIRST WORLD WAR

    THE FIRST WORLD WAR
    The First World War ends.

  • LIFE AT THE TURN OF THE 20TH CENTURY

    LIFE AT THE TURN OF THE 20TH CENTURY
    Eighteenth Amendment outlaws alcoholic beverages.

  • LIFE AT THE TURN OF THE 20TH CENTURY

    LIFE AT THE TURN OF THE 20TH CENTURY
    Mohandas Gandhi becomes leader of the independence movement in India.

  • THE FIRST WORLD WAR

    THE FIRST WORLD WAR
    A worldwide influenza epidemic kills over 30million.

  • THE FIRST WORLD WAR

    THE FIRST WORLD WAR
    Congress approves the Nineteenth Amendment, granting women the vote.

  • LIFE AT THE TURN OF THE 20TH CENTURY

    LIFE AT THE TURN OF THE 20TH CENTURY
    Nineteenth Amendment grants women the right to vote.