CHRONOLOGY

1889

  • Jane Addams opens Hull House.

    • 1896

  • Plessy v. Ferguson decided.

    • 1900

  • Socialist Party founded.

    • 1901

  • William McKinley assassinated; Theodore Roosevelt becomes president.

    • 1902

  • Antitrust lawsuit filed against Northern Securities Company.

  • Roosevelt mediates anthracite coal strike.

    • 1903

  • Women’s Trade Union League founded.

  • Panama Canal construction begins.

    • 1904

  • Roosevelt Corollary to Monroe Doctrine announced.

    • 1905

  • Industrial Workers of the World founded.

    • 1906

  • Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act enacted.

  • Atlanta race riot kills several hundred blacks.

  • Hepburn Act enacted.

    • 1907

  • Panic on Wall Street causes economic downturn.

  • “Gentlemen’s Agreement” made with Japan.

    • 1908

  • Muller v. Oregon decided.

  • William Howard Taft elected president.

    • 1909

  • Garment workers strike.

  • National Association for the Advancement of Colored People formed.

    • 1911

  • Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire kills workers.

    • 1912

  • Roosevelt runs for president on Progressive Party ticket.

  • Woodrow Wilson elected president.

    • 1913

  • Suffragists march in Washington, D.C.

  • Federal Reserve Act enacted.

    • 1914

  • Federal Trade Commission created.

  • Clayton Antitrust Act enacted.

    • 1916

  • Margaret Sanger opens first U.S. birth control clinic.