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U.S buys alaska
as the United States' acquisition of Alaska from the Russian Empire on March 30, 1867 by a treaty ratified by the United States Senate, and signed by president Andrew Johnson -
Yellowstone becomes 1st national park
First park creative -
Spanish American War
Was a conflict fought between Spain and the United States in 1898. -
Cuba gains independence
Spanish–American War resulted in a Spanish withdrawal from the island in 1898, and Cuba gained formal independence in 1902. -
U.S begins Panama Canal Work
is a man-made 48-mile (77 km) waterway in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean. -
The Jungle
A novel written by the American journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair -
Pure Food And Drug 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
President Theodore Roosevelt, honoring a promise not to seek a third term, persuaded the Republican Party to nominate William Howard Taft, his close friend and Secretary of War, to become his successor -
NAACP
Is an African American civil rights, organization in the United States, formed in 1909 by Moorfield Storey. -
T.R becomes president
Nevertheless, in 1901, Theodore Roosevelt became William McKinley's Vice President; and when McKinley was assassinated in September of that year, Roosevelt assumed the presidency. -
U.S finishes panama canal
Canal is finally done -
Womens Suffrage
Women's Right to Vote -
Prohibition
A nationwide constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation and sale of alcoholic beverages that remained in place from 1920 to 1933. -
Wilson elected President
ncumbent President Woodrow Wilson, the Democratic candidate, was pitted against Supreme Court Justice Charles Evans Hughes, the Republican candidate. -
U.S Annexes Hawaii
submitted a treaty to annex the Hawaiian Islands to the U. S. Senate for ratification.
