Timeline of United States history 1900-1929
This section of the
Timeline of United States history
concerns
events from
1900
to
1929
.
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1900s
1900
- US
population
exceeds 75
million
1900
-
Foraker Act
1900
-
Gold Standard Act
1900
- US helps put down
Boxer Rebellion
in
China
1901
-
William McKinley
assassinated
1901
-
Theodore Roosevelt
becomes
President
1901
-
US Steel
founded by
John Pierpont Morgan
1901
-
Platt Amendment
1901
-
Hay-Pauncefote Treaty
1902
-
Drago Doctrine
1902
- First
Rose Bowl
game played
1902
-
Newlands Reclamation Act
1903
-
Great Train Robbery
opens
1903
-
Ford Motor Company
formed
1903
- First
World Series
1903
-
Elkins Act
1903
-
Big Stick Diplomacy
1903
-
Hay-Bunau Varilla Treaty
1903
-
Hay-Herran Treaty
1903
- Department of Commerce and Labor created
1904
-
Roosevelt Corollary
to
Monroe Doctrine
1904
-
Panama Canal
Zone acquired
1905
-
Niagara Falls conference
1905
-
Industrial Workers of the World
(IWW) formed
1906
-
Algeciras Conference
1906
-
Pure Food and Drug Act
and
Meat Inspection Act
1906
-
Hepburn Act
1906
- Theodore Roosevelt negotiates
Treaty of Portsmouth
, receives
Nobel Peace Prize
1907
-
Gentleman's Agreement
1907
-
Oklahoma
becomes a
state
1907
- Panic of 1907
1908
-
Ford Model T
appears on market
1908
- Root-Takahira agreement
1908
-
Federal Bureau of Investigation
established
1908
-
Aldrich Vreeland Act
1909
-
The U.S. penny
is changed to the
Abraham Lincoln
design
1909
-
William Howard Taft
becomes President
1909
-
Robert Peary
plants
American flag
at
North Pole
1909
-
NAACP
founded by
W. E. B. DuBois
1909
-
Payne-Aldrich tariff
1909
- Taft implements
Dollar Diplomacy
1909
- Ballinger-Pinchot controversy
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1910s
1910
-
Boy Scouts of America
chartered
1910
-
Mann-Elkins Act
1910
-
Mann Act
1911
-
Supreme Court
breaks up
Standard Oil
1912
-
Titanic
sinks
1912
-
New Mexico
and
Arizona
become states
1913
-
Woodrow Wilson
becomes President
1913
-
Federal Reserve Act
1913
-
16th Amendment
1913
-
17th Amendment
1913
-
Underwood tariff
1914
-
Mother's Day
created
1914
-
Federal Trade Commission
created
1914
-
Clayton Antitrust Act
1914
-
ABC Powers
1915
-
The Birth of a Nation
opens
1915
-
RMS Lusitania
sunk
1916
- US acquires
Virgin Islands
1916
-
Jeanette Rankin
elected
1916
-
Louis Brandeis
appointed to
Supreme Court
1916
-
Adamson Railway Labor Act
1916
-
Federal Farm Loan Act
1917
-
Zimmerman telegram
1917
- US enters
World War I
1917
-
Espionage and Sedition Acts
1917
-
Lansing-Ishii Agreement
1918
- President Wilson's
Fourteen Points
1918
-
Treaty of Versailles
ends World War I
1919
-
Senate
rejects
Treaty of Versailles
and
League of Nations
1919
-
18th Amendment
1919
-
1920
Red Scare
(NOTE: the time that this event occurred can be debated. These are the two major years.)
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1920s
1920
-
19th Amendment
1920
- U.S. population tops 100 million
1920
-
Sacco and Vanzetti
arrested
1920
- First
radio
broadcast in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1920
-
Volstead Act
1920
-
Esch Cummins Act
1921
-
Warren G. Harding
becomes President
1921
- Washington Disarmament Conference
1921
-
Emergency Quota Act
1922
-
Fordney McCumber tariff
1923
-
Warren G. Harding
dies
1923
-
Calvin Coolidge
becomes President
1923
-
Yankee Stadium
opens
1923
-
Teapot Dome Scandal
1924
-
Immigration Act Basic Law
1924
-
Indian Reorganization Act
1925
-
Scopes trial
1925
-
Nellie Tayloe Ross
elected
1927
-
Sacco and Vanzetti
executed
1927
-
Charles Lindbergh
makes first trans-Atlantic
flight
1927
-
The Jazz Singer
, the first "
talkie
" (motion picture with sound) is released
1928
- Disney's
Steamboat Willie
opens
1928
-
Kellogg-Briand Pact
1929
-
Herbert Hoover
becomes President
1929
-
Saint Valentine's Day Massacre
1929
-
Immigration Act
1929
-
Great Depression
begins
1860-1899
1900-1929
History of the United States
1930-1949