1900 1920

American Timeline 1900-1920

By Ctleach33

  • Theodore Roosevelt

    Theodore Roosevelt
    Theodore Roosevelt becomes President

  • Hepburn Act

    Hepburn Act
    Pure Food and Drug Act

  • Woodrow Wilson

    Woodrow Wilson
    Election of Woodrow Wilson

  • Sixteen Amendment

    Sixteen Amendment
    Sixteen Amendment authorizing income tax ratified.

  • Seventeenth Amendment

    Seventeenth Amendment
    Seventeenth Amendment providing for direct elections of Senators ratified

  • World War 1

    World War 1
    World War 1 begins

  • Haiti

    Haiti
    U. S. troops sent to Haiti

  • Lusitania sunk

    Lusitania sunk
    Lusitania was torpedoed by German U-boat.

  • U.S. enters WW1

    U.S. enters WW1
    U.S. enters WW1 due to the sinking of the Lusitania.

  • WW1 ends

    WW1 ends
    WW1 ends

  • Eighteenth Amendment

    Eighteenth Amendment
    Eighteenth Amendment prohibits alcoholic beverages

  • Nineteenth Amendment

    Nineteenth Amendment
    Nineteenth Amendment gives women the right to vote.