Tech Project #2 1900-1920

By Davidpinilla
  • Period: to

    Boer War

  • President William McKinley assassinated

  • U.S. Steel Corporation formed

  • U.S. signs Panama Canal treaty

  • First airplane in U.S.

  • Period: to

    Russo-Japanese War

  • Flatation Building

    First skyscraper in U.S dedicated.

  • Niagara Movement

    founded by W.E.B. DuBois

  • First African-American university fraternity founded

  • Pure Food and Drug Act

  • Meat Inspection Act

  • New York Film Review board established.

  • National Association for the Advancement of Colored People founded.

  • Federal Income Tax begins with 16th Amendment to the Constitution.

  • Period: to

    Ballinger-Pinchot dispute over Hetch-Hetchy

  • Mann-Etkins Act

  • Period: to

    Mexican Revolution

  • Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

  • New York establishes minimum wage

  • Election of Woodrow Wilson

  • Period: to

    First and Second Balkan Wars

  • Department of Labor established

  • Henry Ford introduces conveyer belt in factory

  • Federal Reserve Act

  • Direct Election of Senators established with 17th Amendment.

  • The End of Progressivism

  • Period: to

    World War 1

  • KKK revived

  • Lusitania sunk, U.S. intervened

  • Period: to

    Armenian Genocide

  • Germany issues Sussex pledge.

  • Russian Revolution

  • Treaty of Versailles

  • Period: to

    Russian Civil War

  • Red Scare

  • Eighteenth Amendment prohibits alcoholic beverages.

  • Period: to

    Irish War of independence

  • Nineteenth Amendment gives women the right to vote.

  • First radio station in Pittsburgh