Timeline Of The History Of The United States (1900–1929)
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Timeline Of The History Of The United States (1900–1929)
This section of the timeline of United States history concern events from 1900 to 1929. 1900s Presidency of William McKinley *1900 – President William McKinley reelected; Theodore Roosevelt elected vice president. 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 *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, Rose Bowl game played *1902 – Newlands Reclamation Act *1903 – ''The Great Train Robbery (1903 film), 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 ideolo ...
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Timeline Of United States History
The following outline is provided as an overview of and a topical guide to the history of the United States. By period * Prehistory of the United States * History of the United States ** Pre-Columbian era ** Colonial history of the United States ** 1776–1789 ** 1789–1815 ** 1815–1849 ** 1849–1865 ** 1865–1917 ** 1917–1945 ** 1945–1964 ** 1964–1980 ** 1980–1991 ** 1991–2016 ** 2016–present Named eras and periods These multi-year periods are commonly identified in American history. The existence and dating of some of these periods is debated by historians. * Plantation era () * First Great Awakening (1730s–1740s) * American Revolution (1775–1783) * Confederation period (1781–1789) * Federalist Era (1788–1800) * Second Great Awakening () * First-wave feminism (19th century–early 20th century) * Manifest Destiny () * Era of Good Feelings () * Jacksonian Era () * The Slave Power () * California Gold Rush (1848–1855) * Greater ...
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Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty
The Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty () was a treaty signed on November 18, 1903, by the United States and Panama, which established the Panama Canal Zone and the subsequent construction of the Panama Canal. It was named after its two primary negotiators, Philippe-Jean Bunau-Varilla, the French diplomatic representative of Panama, and United States Secretary of State John Hay. Background From 1882, Ferdinand de Lesseps, who had built the Suez Canal, started work on a canal traversing the Isthmus of Panama, which was then part of Colombia. By 1889, with engineering challenges caused by frequent landslides, slippage of equipment and mud, plus disease, the effort failed in bankruptcy.Musicant, I, ''The Banana Wars'', 1990, New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., After the collapse of the de Lesseps efforts to build the Panama Canal, Bunau-Varilla became an important shareholder of the ''Compagnie Nouvelle du Canal de Panama'', which still had the concession, as well as certain valuable a ...
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Industrial Workers Of The World
The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), whose members are nicknamed "Wobblies", is an international labor union founded in Chicago, United States in 1905. The nickname's origin is uncertain. Its ideology combines general unionism with industrial unionism, as it is a general union, subdivided between the various industries which employ its members. The Industrial Workers of the World philosophy and tactics, philosophy and tactics of the IWW are described as "revolutionary industrial unionism", with ties to History of the socialist movement in the United States, socialist, syndicalism, syndicalist, and Anarchism in the United States#American anarchism and the labor movement, anarchist labor movements. In the 1910s and early 1920s, the IWW achieved many of its short-term goals, particularly in the Western United States, American West, and cut across traditional guild and union lines to organize workers in a variety of trades and industries. At their peak in August 1917, IWW m ...
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Niagara Falls Conference
The Niagara Falls convention was a meeting of twenty-nine activists, held at the Erie Beach Hotel, Fort Erie, Ontario, on the Canadian side of the Niagara River, from July 11 until 14 July 1905. It was the first meeting of The Niagara Movement, a group of African-Americans, led by W. E. B. Du Bois, John Hope, and William Monroe Trotter. Instrumental in forming the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The subsequent Niagara Conference was held the following year at Storer College, Harpers Ferry, West Virginia Harpers Ferry is a historic town in Jefferson County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 269 at the 2020 United States census. Situated at the confluence of the Potomac River, Potomac and Shenandoah River, Shenandoah Rivers in the .... References External linksThe Niagara Movement founded 1905 in Canada 1905 conferences African-American history of New York (state) 1905 in Ontario {{canada-hist-stub ...
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Charles W
The F/V ''Charles W'', also known as Annie J Larsen, is a historic fishing schooner anchored in Petersburg, Alaska. At the time of its retirement in 2000, it was the oldest fishing vessel in the fishing fleet of Southeast Alaska, and the only known wooden fishing vessel in the entire state still in active service. Launched in 1907, she was first used in the halibut fisheries of Puget Sound and the Bering Sea as the ''Annie J Larsen''. In 1925 she was purchased by the Alaska Glacier Seafood Company, refitted for shrimp trawling, and renamed ''Charles W'' in honor of owner Karl Sifferman's father. The company was one of the pioneers of the local shrimp fishery, a business it began to phase out due to increasing competition in the 1970s. The ''Charles W'' was the last of the company's fleet of ships, which numbered twelve at its height. The boat was acquired in 2002 by the nonprofit Friends of the ''Charles W''. The boat was listed on the National Register of Historic Place ...
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1904 United States Presidential Election
Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 8, 1904. Incumbent Republican president Theodore Roosevelt defeated the conservative Democratic nominee, Alton B. Parker. Roosevelt's victory made him the first president who ascended to the presidency upon the death of his predecessor to win a full term in his own right. Roosevelt took office in September 1901 following the assassination of his predecessor, William McKinley. After the February 1904 death of McKinley's ally, Senator Mark Hanna, Roosevelt faced little opposition at the 1904 Republican National Convention. The conservative Bourbon Democrat allies of former president Grover Cleveland temporarily regained control of the Democratic Party from the followers of William Jennings Bryan, and the 1904 Democratic National Convention nominated Alton B. Parker, Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals. Parker triumphed on the first ballot of the convention, defeating newspaper magnate William Randolp ...
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Louisiana Purchase Exposition
The Louisiana Purchase Exposition, informally known as the St. Louis World's Fair, was an World's fair, international exposition held in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States, from April 30 to December 1, 1904. Local, state, and federal funds totaling $15 million (equivalent to $ in ) were used to finance the event. More than 60 countries and 43 of the then-45 American states maintained exhibition spaces at the fair, which was attended by nearly 19.7 million people. Historians generally emphasize the prominence of the themes of Race (human categorization), race and imperialism, and the fair's long-lasting impact on intellectuals in the fields of history, architecture, and anthropology. From the point of view of the memory of the average person who attended the fair, it primarily promoted entertainment, consumer goods, and popular culture. The monumental Greco-Roman architecture of this and other fairs of the era did much to influence permanent new buildings and master p ...
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Panama Canal
The Panama Canal () is an artificial waterway in Panama that connects the Caribbean Sea with the Pacific Ocean. It cuts across the narrowest point of the Isthmus of Panama, and is a Channel (geography), conduit for maritime trade between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Lock (water navigation), Locks at each end lift ships up to Gatun Lake, an artificial fresh water lake Above mean sea level, above sea level, created by damming the Chagres River and Lake Alajuela to reduce the amount of excavation work required for the canal. Locks then lower the ships at the other end. An average of of fresh water is used in a single passing of a ship. The canal is threatened by low water levels during droughts. The Panama Canal shortcut greatly reduces the time for ships to travel between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, enabling them to avoid the lengthy, hazardous route around the southernmost tip of South America via the Drake Passage, the Strait of Magellan or the Beagle Channel. Its ...
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Monroe Doctrine
The Monroe Doctrine is a foreign policy of the United States, United States foreign policy position that opposes European colonialism in the Western Hemisphere. It holds that any intervention in the political affairs of the Americas by foreign powers is a potentially hostile act against the United States. The doctrine was central to American grand strategy in the 20th century. President Presidency of James Monroe, James Monroe first articulated the doctrine on December 2, 1823, during his seventh annual State of the Union, State of the Union Address to United States Congress, Congress (though it would not be named after him until 1850). At the time, nearly all Spanish colonies in the Americas had either achieved or were close to Spanish American wars of independence, independence. Monroe asserted that the New World and the Old World were to remain distinctly separate Sphere of influence, spheres of influence, and thus further efforts by European powers to control or influence s ...
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Roosevelt Corollary
In the history of United States foreign policy, the Roosevelt Corollary was an addition to the Monroe Doctrine articulated by President Theodore Roosevelt in his 1904 State of the Union Address, largely as a consequence of the Venezuelan crisis of 1902–1903. The corollary states that the United States could intervene in the internal affairs of Latin American countries if they committed flagrant wrongdoings that "loosened the ties of civilized society". Roosevelt tied his policy to the Monroe Doctrine, and it was also consistent with his foreign policy included in his Big stick ideology. Roosevelt stated that in keeping with the Monroe Doctrine, the U.S. was justified in exercising "international police power" to put an end to chronic unrest or wrongdoing in the Western Hemisphere. President Herbert Hoover in 1930 endorsed the Clark Memorandum that repudiated the Roosevelt Corollary in favor of what was later called the Good Neighbor policy. Background The Roosevelt Coro ...
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Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
Kitty Hawk is a town in Dare County, North Carolina, United States, located on Bodie Island within the state's Outer Banks. The population was 3,708 at the 2020 United States census. It was established in the early 18th century as Chickahawk. History The name Kitty Hawk is derived from the native Algonquian languages, Algonquin Native American language word Chickahawk, meaning "a place to hunt geese". Kitty Hawk became world-famous after the Wright brothers made the first controlled powered airplane flights at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, Kill Devil Hills, south of the town, on December 17, 1903. After the four flights in their ''Wright Flyer'', the brothers walked back to Kitty Hawk. Here, they sent a telegram from the Weather Bureau office to their father informing him of their success. Kitty Hawk is usually credited as the site of the powered flights because it was the nearest named settlement at the time of the flight; the modern town of Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina ...
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Wright Flyer
The ''Wright Flyer'' (also known as the ''Kitty Hawk'', ''Flyer'' I or the 1903 ''Flyer'') made the first sustained flight by a manned heavier-than-air powered and controlled aircraft on December 17, 1903. Invented and flown by brothers Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur Wright, it marked the beginning of the Aviation in the pioneer era, pioneer era of aviation. The aircraft is a single-place biplane design with Dihedral (aeronautics)#Anhedral and polyhedral, anhedral (drooping) wings, front double Elevator (aeronautics), elevator (a canard (aeronautics), canard) and rear double rudder. It used a gasoline engine powering two pusher propellers. Employing "wing warping", it was relatively unstable and very difficult to fly. The Wright brothers flew it four times in a location now part of the town of Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, Kill Devil Hills, about south of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. The airplane flew on its fourth and final flight, but was damaged on landing, and ...
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