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Women's Suffrage
Women's suffrage is the right of women to vote in elections. -
U.S buys Alaska
On March 30, 1867, Secretary of State William H. Seward agreed to purchase Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million. -
Cuba gains independence
Cuba gain their independence in 1868 -
Yellowstone becomes 1st National Park
Roosevelt made Yellowstone the 1st national park in the United States. -
Spanish American War
A war between Spain and the United States, fought in 1898. The war began as an intervention by the United States on behalf of Cuba. -
U.S Annexes Hawaii
In 1893 the last monarch of Hawaii, Queen Lili'uokalani, was overthrown by party of businessmen, who then imposed a provisional government. Soon after, President Benjamin Harrison submitted a treaty to annex the Hawaiian islands to the U.S. Senate for ratification. -
T.R becomes President
At age 42, Teddy Roosevelt became the youngest man to assume the U.S. presidency after President William McKinley was assassinated in 1901 -
U.S begins Panama Canal work
The US begins working on the Panama Canal to make it easier to travel to the other side of our country. -
The Jungle
The Jungle is a 1906 novel written by the American journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair (1878–1968). Sinclair wrote the novel to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities -
Pure Food and Drug Act
An act for preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes. -
Taft elected President
Taft was elected to be President in 1908 -
NAACP Founded
Founded in 1909, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was one of the earliest and most influential civil rights organization in the United States. During its early years, the NAACP focused on legal strategies designed to confront the critical civil rights issues of the day. -
U.S finishes Panama Canal
The US finished the Panama Canal to make it easier to get to the other side of the country. -
Wilson elected President
President Wilson was Elected president in -
Prohibition
a nationwide constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation and sale of alcoholic beverages that remained in place from 1920 to 1933.
