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The National Women Sufferage Association was founded
It was created in response to a split in the American Equal Rights Association over whether the woman's movement should support the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Its founders, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, opposed the Fifteenth Amendment unless it included the vote for women. -
The National Consumers' League was founded
Its a private, nonprofit advocacy group representing consumers on marketplace and workplace issues. The NCL provides government, businesses, and other organizations with the consumer's perspective on concerns including child labor, privacy, food safety, and medication information. -
Hurricane devastated Galevston Texas; recovery produces new model for city government
It had estimated winds of 145 miles per hour at landfall, making it a Category 4 storm on the Saffir–Simpson Hurricane Scale.It was the deadliest hurricane in US history.The hurricane caused great loss of life with the estimated death toll between 6,000 and 12,000 individuals. -
The Boxer Rebellion fails to drive foriegners out of China
The siege was ended when the Eight-Nation Alliance brought 20,000 armed troops to China, defeated the Imperial Army, and captured Beijing. -
Albert Einstein put his special theroy of relativity.
The theory was originally termed "special" because it applied the principle of relativity only to the special case of inertial reference frames, i.e. frames of reference in uniform relative motion with respect to each other. Einstein developed general relativity to apply the principle in the more general case, that is, to any frame so as to handle general coordinate transformations, and that theory includes the effects of gravity. -
Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle exposes unsanitary conditions in the meatpacking industry.
Sinclair wrote the novel with the intent to portray the lives of immigrants in the United States. However, readers were more concerned with the large portion of the book pertaining to the bad practices and corruption of the American meatpacking industry during the early 20th century, and the book is now often interpreted and taught as a journalist's account of the poor working conditions in the industry. -
American Robert Peary reaches the North Pole.
Explorers regarded the North Pole as the last prize in the Northern Hemisphere. The quest for the Pole turned into an international race with teams from Britain, Norway and America vying for the distinction of reaching it first. -
The Mexican Revoultion Begins
It was a major armed struggle that started in 1910, with an uprising led by Francisco I. Madero against longtime autocrat Porfirio Díaz, and lasted for the better part of a decade until around 1920. Over time the Revolution changed from a revolt against the established order to a multi-sided civil war. This armed conflict is often categorized as the most important sociopolitical event in Mexico and one of the greatest upheavals of the 20th century. -
Roosevelt runs for Pres. under the new Progressive Party & splits the GOP vote, giving the election to Wilson
After former President Theodore Roosevelt failed to receive the Republican nomination, he called his own convention and created the Progressive Party (nicknamed the "Bull Moose Party").Wilson defeated Taft, Roosevelt, and Debs in the general election, winning a large majority in the Electoral College and 42% of the popular vote, while his nearest rival, Roosevelt, won only 27%. -
World War 1 begins
Centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918.The allies won. -
The Clayton Antitrust Act gives the federal government broad anti monopoly power.
It was enacted in the United States to add further substance to the U.S. antitrust law regime by seeking to prevent anticompetitive practices in their incipiency. That regime started with the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890, the first Federal law outlawing practices considered harmful to consumers (monopolies, cartels, and trusts). -
The Russian Revolution begins
The Emperor was forced to abdicate and the old regime was replaced by a provisional government during the first revolution of February 1917. In the second revolution, during October, the Provisional Government was removed and replaced with a Bolshevik (Communist) government. -
The Treaty of Versailles is signed
It was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I.It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. -
The 19th Amendment is ratified.
It prohibits any United States citizen to be denied the right to vote based on sex.The Constitution allows the states to determine the qualifications for voting, and until the 1910s most states disenfranchised women. The amendment was the culmination of the women's suffrage movement in the United States, which fought at both state and national levels to achieve the vote.
