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The Americas to 1620
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Events
Adkins v. Children’s Hospital
Assassination of William McKinley
Carrie Nation’s barroom-smashing campaign began.
Cherokee Nation v. United States
Chromosomal determination of sex discovered
Clayton Antitrust Act
Coal strike ended
Eighteenth Amendment
Emergency Quota Act
Emma Goldman arrested
Federal Reserve Act
Federal Trade Commission Act
First birth control clinic
First woman in US House of Representatives
Ford Motor Company founded
Hepburn Act
Indian Citizenship Act
Keating-Owen Child Labor Act
Major industry changes by Ford
Mann Act
McKinley died; Roosevelt became president
Meat Inspection Act
Model T introduced
Muller v. Oregon
National Origins Act of 1924
National Park Service established
New York shirtwaist strike
Nineteenth Amendment
Payne-Aldrich Tariff
Pittsburgh Survey published
Pure Food and Drug Act
Railway Labor Act
San Francisco Earthquake of 1906
Seventeenth Amendment
Sinking of the Titanic
Sixteenth Amendment
Socialist Party of America formed
Start of Prohibition
Suffrage parade in New York
The Jungle
Theodore Roosevelt elected president
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
Underwood Tariff
William Howard Taft elected president
Woodrow Wilson re-elected
Wright brothers’ first flight
People
Belva Lockwood
Carrie Nation
Charles Schwab
Clarence Darrow
Eleanor Roosevelt
Emma Goldman
Frances Perkins
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Gifford Pinchot
Henry Ford
Hiram Johnson
Ida B. Wells
Ida Tarbell
Jacob Riis
Jane Addams
Jeannette Rankin
John Muir
Joseph Pulitzer
Marcus Garvey
Margaret Sanger
Mary Edwards Walker
Mary Elizabeth Lease
Robert M. La Follette
Theodore Roosevelt
Upton Sinclair
William Howard Taft
William Jennings Bryan
William Randolph Hearst
Places
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Panama Canal
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anarchists
muckrakers
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