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Hull-House, a settlement house, opens in Chicago
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Republic of Hawaii is proclaimed
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Cuban insurrection breaks out against Spanish rule
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U.S. battleship Maine explodes in Havana Harbor
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War of 1898
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United States annexes Hawaii
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U.S. Senate ratifies the Treaty of Paris, ending the War of 1898
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Filipino insurgents resist U.S. domination
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Army Yellow Fever Commission confirms the cause of yellow fever
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International alliance quells the Boxer Rebellion
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Theodore Roosevelt attempts to arbitrate the coal strike
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Justice Department breaks up Northern Securities Company
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Panamanians revolt against Colombia
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Congress passes the Elkins Act
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Wright Brothers fly the first airplane
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Ford Motor Company is founded
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Russo-Japanese War
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First movie house opens
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Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle is published
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Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act
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Great White Fleet circumnavigates the globe in a demonstration of America’s rise to world-power status
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Supreme Court issues Muller v. Oregon decision
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William Taft is inaugurated president
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Congress passes the Mann-Elkins Act
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is founded
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Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire
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Congress passes the Federal Reserve Act
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Panama Canal opens
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Congress passes the Clayton Anti-Trust Act
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World War I begins in Europe
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The United States intervenes in Mexico
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British liner Lusitania, with Americans aboard, is torpedoed without warning by a German submarine
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Louis Brandeis is nominated to fill a seat on the Supreme Court
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Congress passes the National Defense Act
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Marcus Garvey brings to New York the Universal Negro Improvement Association
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Zimmermann telegram reveals that Germany is attempting to incite Mexico to enter the war against the United States
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United States enters the Great War
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Woodrow Wilson delivers his Fourteen Points speech
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Representatives of warring nations sign armistice
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Supreme Court issues Schenck v. United States decision
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Treaty of Versailles is presented to the Germans
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Race riots break out in Chicago
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U.S. attorney general launches Red Scare
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Nineteenth Amendment, guaranteeing women’s suffrage, is ratified
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Prohibition begins
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F. Scott Fitzgerald’s This Side of Paradise is published
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Joint resolution of Congress officially ends the war among the United States, Germany, and Austria-Hungary
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Albert Einstein receives the Nobel Prize in physics
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Congress passes the Emergency Immigration Act
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Representatives of the United States, Great Britain, France, Italy, and Japan attend the Washington Naval Conference
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T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land is published
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First radio commercial is aired
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Benito Mussolini comes to power in Italy
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United States begins sending observers to the League of Nations
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President Warren G. Harding dies in office
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Congress passes the Immigration Act
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Scopes “monkey trial” tests the teaching of evolution in Tennessee public schools
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Charles Lindbergh Jr. makes first solo transatlantic flight
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Herbert Hoover is elected president
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More than sixty nations sign the Kellogg-Briand Pact pledging not to go to war with one another, except in matters of self-defense
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Stock market crashes
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Congress passes the Hawley-Smoot Tariff
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Congress sets up the Reconstruction Finance Corporation
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Congress passes the Glass-Steagall Act
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Congress passes the Glass-Steagall Act
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Congress sets up the Reconstruction Finance Corporation
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Bonus Expeditionary Force converges on Washington to demand payment of bonuses promised to war veterans
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Bonus Expeditionary Force converges on Washington to demand payment of bonuses promised to war veterans