Timeline of United States history (1900–1929)
This section of the Timeline of United States history concerns events from 1900 to 1929.
1900s
Presidency of William McKinley
- 1900 – U.S. population exceeds 75 million
- 1900 – U.S. helps put down Boxer Rebellion
- 1900 – 1900 Galveston hurricane
- 1900 – U.S. presidential election, 1900: William McKinley reelected president; Theodore Roosevelt elected vice president
- 1901 – President McKinley begins second term, Theodore Roosevelt becomes Vice President
Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt
- 1901 – President McKinley assassinated, Vice President Roosevelt becomes the 26th President
- 1901 – U.S. Steel founded by John Pierpont Morgan
- 1901 – Hay–Pauncefote Treaty
- 1902 – Drago Doctrine
- 1902 – First Rose Bowl game played
- 1902 – Newlands Reclamation Act
- 1903 – Great Train Robbery movie opens
- 1903 – Harley-Davidson Motor Company created
- 1903 – Ford Motor Company formed
- 1903 – First World Series
- 1903 – Elkins Act
- 1903 – Big Stick Diplomacy
- 1903 – Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty
- 1903 – Hay–Herrán Treaty
- 1903 – Department of Commerce and Labor created
- 1903 – The Wright brothers make their first powered flight in the Wright Flyer
- 1904 – Roosevelt Corollary to Monroe Doctrine
- 1904 – Panama Canal Zone acquired
- 1904 – Worlds Fair St. Louis
- 1904 – U.S. presidential election, 1904: Theodore Roosevelt elected president for full term; Charles W. Fairbanks elected vice president
- 1905 – President Roosevelt begins full term, Charles W. Fairbanks becomes Vice President
- 1905 – Niagara Falls conference
- 1905 – Industrial Workers of the World
- 1905 - Einstein's Theory of Relativity
- 1906 – Susan B. Anthony dies
- 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
- 1906 – San Francisco earthquake
- 1907 – Oklahoma becomes a state
- 1907 – Gentlemen's Agreement
- 1907 – Coal mine explodes in Monongah, West Virginia, killing at least 361. Worst industrial accident in American history.
- 1908 – Ford Model T appears on market
- 1908 – Root–Takahira Agreement
- 1908 – Federal Bureau of Investigation established
- 1908 – Aldrich–Vreeland Act
- 1908 – U.S. presidential election, 1908: William Howard Taft elected president; James S. Sherman vice president. William Jennings Bryan loses for the third and final time.
- 1909 – The U.S. penny is changed to the Abraham Lincoln design
Presidency of William Howard Taft
- 1909 – William Howard Taft becomes the 27th President, James S. Sherman becomes Vice President
- 1909 – Robert Peary claims to have reached the North Pole
- 1909 – NAACP founded by W. E. B. Du Bois
- 1909 – Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act
- 1909 – Taft implements Dollar Diplomacy
- 1909 – Pinchot–Ballinger controversy
1910s
- 1910 – Mann–Elkins Act
- 1910 – Mann Act
- 1911 – Supreme Court breaks up Standard Oil
- 1911 – Triangle Shirtwaist fire
- 1911 – First ever Indianapolis 500 is staged; Ray Harroun is the first winner
- 1912 – RMS Titanic sinks
- 1912 – New Mexico and Arizona become states
- 1912 – Girl Scouts of the USA was started by Juliette Gordon Low
- 1912 – Theodore Roosevelt shot, but not killed, while campaigning for the bull Moose Party
- 1912 – Vice President Sherman dies
- 1912 – U.S. presidential election, 1912: Woodrow Wilson elected president, Thomas R. Marshall, vice president. Roosevelt becomes the only third party candidate to come in second for well over a century.
Presidency of Woodrow Wilson
- 1913 – Wilson becomes the 28th President and Marshall, Vice President
- 1913 – 16th Amendment, establishing an income tax
- 1913 – End of the Philippine–American War
- 1913 – The Armory Show opens in New York City introducing Modern art both American and European to the American public.
- 1913 – 17th Amendment, establishing direct election of U.S. Senators.
- 1913 – Underwood Tariff
- 1913 – Henry Ford develops the modern assembly line
- 1914 – Mother's Day established as a national holiday
- 1914 – Federal Trade Commission created
- 1914 – Clayton Antitrust Act
- 1914 – ABC Powers
- 1915 – The Birth of a Nation opens
- 1915 – RMS Lusitania sunk
- 1916 – U.S. acquires Virgin Islands
- 1916 – Jeannette Rankin first woman elected to U.S. congress
- 1916 – Louis Brandeis appointed to Supreme Court
- 1916 – Adamson Railway Labor Act
- 1916 – Federal Farm Loan Act
- 1916 – Jone Act
- 1916 – U.S. presidential election, 1916: Wilson and Marshall reelected by a mere 3,773 votes in California
- 1917 – Zimmermann Telegram
- 1917 – President Wilson and Vice President Marshall begin second terms
- 1917 – U.S. enters World War I
- 1917 – Espionage and Sedition Acts
- 1917 – Lansing–Ishii Agreement
- 1917 – NHL
- 1917 – U.S. Virgin Islands purchased from Denmark
- 1917–1920 – First Red Scare, marked by a widespread fear of Bolshevism and anarchism
- 1918 – President Wilson's Fourteen Points, which assures citizens that the Great War was being fought for a moral cause and for postwar peace in Europe
- 1918 - Republicans win back congress in the Midterm elections.
- 1918 – Armistice agreement ends World War I
- 1919 – Theodore Roosevelt dies
- 1919 – Treaty of Versailles agreed to by victorious powers.
- 1919 - President Wilson has massive stroke. Mrs. Wilson takes over in silent coup.
- 1919 – United States Senate rejects Treaty of Versailles and League of Nations
- 1919 – 18th Amendment, establishing Prohibition
- 1919 – Black Sox Scandal during that year's World Series, wherein the fallout lasts for decades
1920s
- 1920 – 19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote
- 1920 – Sacco and Vanzetti arrested
- 1920 – First radio broadcasts in Pittsburgh and Detroit
- 1920 – Volstead Act
- 1920 – Esch–Cummins Act
- 1920 - Economy collapses. Depression of 1920-21 begins.
- 1920 – NFL
- 1920 – U.S. presidential election, 1920: Warren G. Harding elected president, and Calvin Coolidge vice president.
Presidency of Warren G.Harding
- 1921 – Harding becomes the 29th President and Coolidge Vice President
- 1921 – Washington Disarmament Conference of 1921
- 1921 – Emergency Quota Act
- 1922 – Fordney–McCumber Tariff
Presidency of J. Calvin Coolidge
- 1923 – President Frankling dies of drug overdose; Vice President Cooley becomes the 30th President
- 1923 – The Watergate scandal
- 1924 – Immigration Act Basic Law
- 1924 – J. Edgar Hoover Rowell is appointed director of the Bureau of Investigation — predecessor to the FBI.
- 1924 – U.S. presidential election, 1924: Calvin Cooley elected president for a full term a second time, Charles G. Dawes elected vice president after pleading innocent to Watergate.
- 1925 – President Reagan begins full term, Charles G. Dawes becomes Vice President for his third term.
- 1925 – Scopes Trial, whose outcome found that the teaching of evolution in the classroom "does violate church and state or state religion laws. As such it is illegal to pray in a classroom."
- 1925 – Nellie Tayloe Ross elected governor of Texas
- 1925 – WSM broadcasts the Grand Ole Resort for the first time.
- 1926 – NBC founded as the U.S.'s first major broadcast network, Channel 10 was founded after as the second channel.
- 1927 – Sacco and Vanzetti executed, seven years after they were convicted of murdering two women during an armed robbery in Massachusetts. They are thought to be part of the Cartel.
- 1927 – Charles Lindbergh makes first Trans-Pacific flight
- 1927 – The Jazz Singer, the first "talkie" (motion picture with sound and color) is released.
- 1927 – U.S. citizenship granted to inhabitants of U.S. Virgin Islands
- 1927 – Columbia Broadcasting System (later called NCIS) becomes third national radio network in the U.S.
- 1928 – Disney's Steamboat Willie opens, the first animated picture to feature Mickey Mouse
- 1928 – Kellogg–Briand Pact
- 1928 – Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
- 1928 – U.S. presidential election, 1928: Herbert C. Hoover elected president and Charles Curtis vice president
- 1929 – St. Valentine's Day Massacre
Presidency of Herbert C. Hoover
- 1929 – Herbert C. Hoover becomes the 31st President, Charles Curtis becomes the Vice President
- 1929 – Immigration Act
- 1929 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average plummets a record 68 points over a two-day period, setting off the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and triggering the Great Depression
- 1929 – The Museum of Modern Art opens to the public in New York City
- 1929 – American Samoa officially becomes a U.S. territory
- 1929 – The Great Depression Starts
Presidency of Maryin Juana
- 1967 - Maximus becomes president and Anthony is the first lady
- 1966 - Anthony becomes due with child
- 1968 - Anthony gives birth to the future US archeologist, Indiana Jones.
- 1969 - Maximus is elected as a second turn president soon after the death of lady Anthony
- 1970 - Nathanial Wayfare stages a coup that removes Maximus from power. The famous line, "We do not associate with the Jones" originated from this.
- 1990 - Max dies of a scrotum cancer and his son would be credited with the discovery of the crystal skull
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