1900-1920
- 1900: Gold Standard
- 1901: Theodore Roosevelt becomes President
- 1904: Roosevelt Corollary to Monroe Doctrine
- 1904-1914: Panama Canal built
- 1906
- Hepburn Act, Pure Food and Drug Act
- The Jungle
- 1912: Election of Woodrow Wilson
- 1913
- Sixteen Amendment authorizing income tax ratified
- Seventeenth Amendment providing for direct elections of Senators ratified
- Federal Reserve System begun
- Wilson broadens segregation in civil service
- 1914
- World War 1 begins
- U. S. troops occupy Vera Cruz
- 1915
- U. S. troops sent to Haiti
- Lusitania sunk, U. S. intervened
- KKK revived
- 1916: Germany issues Sussex pledge
- 1917
- Russian Revolution
- U.S. enters WW1
- 1918
- WW1 ends
- Treaty of Versailles
- 1919
- Eighteenth Amendment prohibits alcoholic beverages
- Red Scare
- 1920
- Nineteenth Amendment gives women the right to vote
- First radio station KDKA in Pittsburgh
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Aboukhadijeh, Feross. "1900-1920" StudyNotes.org. Study Notes, LLC., 17 Nov. 2012. Web. 02 Dec. 2024. <https://www.apstudynotes.org/us-history/timelines/1900-1920/>.
