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This section of the timeline of United States history concern events from 1900 to 1929 .
U.S. territorial extent in 1900 1900s Presidency of William McKinley Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt March 4, 1901 – President McKinley begins second term; Roosevelt becomes the 25th vice president. September 6, 1901 – McKinley is shot, in Buffalo, New York . September 14, 1901 – President McKinley dies, Vice President Roosevelt becomes the 26th president[1] 1901 – U.S. Steel founded by John Pierpont Morgan 1901 – Hay–Pauncefote Treaty 1901 – Louis Armstrong born 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 ideology 1903 – Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty 1903 – Hay–Herrán Treaty 1903 – United States Department of Commerce and Labor created 1903 – The Wright brothers make their first powered flight in the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina 1904 – Roosevelt Corollary to Monroe Doctrine 1904 – Panama Canal Zone acquired 1904 – Louisiana Purchase Exposition , St. Louis 1904 – U.S. presidential election : Theodore Roosevelt elected president for full term; Charles W. Fairbanks elected vice president March 4, 1905 – President Roosevelt begins full term, Fairbanks becomes the 26th vice president 1905 – Niagara Falls conference 1905 – Industrial Workers of the World 1905 – Albert Einstein publishes his theory of relativity 1906 – Susan B. Anthony dies 1906 – Algeciras Conference 1906 – Pure Food and Drug Act and Federal Meat Inspection Act 1906 – Hepburn Act 1906 – Theodore Roosevelt negotiates Treaty of Portsmouth , receives Nobel Peace Prize Teddy Roosevelt, the Bull Moose, led American progressives in the early 20th century. Presidency of William Howard Taft 1910s Presidency of Woodrow Wilson March 4, 1913 – Wilson becomes the 28th president and Marshall becomes the 28th vice president 1913 – Woman Suffrage Procession , a large woman suffrage parade in Washington, D.C., is organized by Alice Paul and held on the eve of Wilson's inaugural 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 the direct election of U.S. Senators. 1913 – Underwood Tariff 1913 – Federal Reserve Act was passed by the 63rd United States Congress and signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson on December 23, 1913. Federal_Reserve_Act 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 1914 – World War I begins when Austria–Hungary declares war on Serbia 1915 – The Birth of a Nation opens 1915 – RMS Lusitania sunk 1915 – First transcontinental telephone is hooked up 1916 – the U.S. acquires Virgin Islands 1916 – Jeannette Rankin first woman elected to U.S. congress 1916 – Louis Brandeis appointed to Supreme Court 1916 – Adamson Act 1916 – Federal Farm Loan Act 1916 – Jones Act 1916 – 1916 United States presidential election : Woodrow Wilson is reelected president and Thomas R. Marshall is reelected vice president, by a mere 3,773 votes in California 1916 – Germany agrees to restrict submarine warfare 1916 – The Great Migration begins 1917 – Zimmermann Telegram March 4, 1917 – President Wilson and Vice President Marshall begin their second terms 1917 – U.S. enters World War I 1917 – Espionage and Sedition Acts 1917 – Lansing–Ishii Agreement 1917 – National Hockey League formed 1917 – U.S. Virgin Islands purchased from Denmark 1917 – Temperance movement leads to prohibition laws in 29 states 1917–1919 – Silent Sentinels hold a vigil outside the White House gates in favor of women's suffrage, a nearly two–and–a–half year demonstration organized by Alice Paul and the National Woman's Party 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 postwar peace in Europe 1918 – Republicans win back Congress in the Midterm elections. 1918 – Armistice agreement ends World War I 1918 – Spanish flu pandemic begins 1918 – Daylight saving time is first adopted 1919 – Treaty of Versailles agreed to by victorious powers . 1919 – President Wilson has a massive stroke. First Lady Edith Wilson takes over in a "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 , with the fallout lasting for decades 1919 – Sherwood Anderson publishes Winesburg, Ohio 1919 – Palmer Raids 1920s Presidency of Warren G. Harding Presidency of Calvin Coolidge 1924 – 1924 U.S. presidential election : Calvin Coolidge elected president for a full term, Charles G. Dawes elected vice president 1924 – The Dawes Plan March 4, 1925 – President Coolidge begins full term, Dawes becomes the 30th vice president 1925 – Scopes Trial , whose outcome found that the teaching of evolution in the classroom "does not violate church and state or state religion laws but instead, merely prohibits the teaching of evolution on the grounds of intellectual disagreement" 1925 – Nellie Tayloe Ross elected governor of Wyoming 1925 – WSM broadcasts the Grand Ole Opry for the first time. 1925 – Countee Cullen published a book of poems called Color . 1925 – F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes The Great Gatsby 1926 – NBC founded as the U.S.'s first major broadcast network 1926 – United States intervenes in Nicaragua 1926 – Opportunity Magazine publishes Langston Hughes ' The Weary Blues 1926 – The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway is published. 1927 – Sacco and Vanzetti executed, seven years after they were convicted of murdering two men during an armed robbery in Massachusetts 1927 – Charles Lindbergh makes first trans–Atlantic flight 1927 – The Jazz Singer , the first motion picture with sound , is released 1927 – U.S. citizenship granted to inhabitants of U.S. Virgin Islands 1927 – Columbia Broadcasting System (later called CBS) was founded, and becomes the second national radio network in the U.S. 1927 – The 15,000,000th Model T rolled off the Assembly Line at Ford Motor Company . 1927 – Babe Ruth hits a record 60 home runs in a single season 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 across the Atlantic Ocean. 1928 – First color motion pictures are demonstrated by George Eastman 1928 – 1928 U.S. presidential election : Herbert C. Hoover elected president and Charles Curtis vice president Presidency of Herbert C. Hoover See also References External links