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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
Events from the year 1900 in the United States ... Theodore Roosevelt (until end of December 31) Governor of North ... (died 1950) January 15 – Rogers E ...
President Theodore Roosevelt declares the end of Philippine–American War, July 4, 1902; Boxer Rebellion, November 2, 1899 – September 7, 1901 The Society of Right and Harmonious Fists attacks Beijing, June 20, 1900; The Eight-Nation Alliance relieves Beijing, August 14, 1900; The Boxer Protocol is imposed on China, September 7, 1901
July 13: Alfred Dreyfus is exonerated and reinstated as a major in the French Army; the Dreyfus affair ends. August 16: An earthquake in Valparaíso, Chile, magnitude 8.2, kills 20,000. September 28: The US begins the Second Occupation of Cuba. October 23: Brazilian inventor Alberto Santos-Dumont takes off and flies his 14-bis to a crowd in Paris.
New major spending programs that addressed education, medical care, urban problems, and transportation were launched later in the 1960s. 1964 – Economic Opportunity Act; 1964 – Civil Rights Act of 1964, outlawing major forms of legalized discrimination against blacks and women, and ended legalized racial segregation in the United States
By 1900, the U.S. had the strongest economy in the world. [158] McKinley was assassinated by Leon Czolgosz in 1901, and was succeeded by Theodore Roosevelt. [159] The period also saw a major transformation of the banking system, with the arrival of the first credit union in 1908 and the creation of the Federal Reserve System in 1913.
A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870–1920 (2003) Mowry, George. The Era of Theodore Roosevelt and the Birth of Modern America, 1900–1912. survey by leading scholar; Pease, Otis, ed. The Progressive Years: The Spirit and Achievement of American Reform (1962), primary documents
Four years later, the Hours of Service Act passed. The Railroad Brotherhoods had won an eight-hour day. The Supreme Court in Gompers v. Buck's Stove and Range Co. (221 U.S. 418) affirmed a lower court order for the AFL to stop interfering with Buck's Stove and Range Company's business or boycotting its products or distributors. [26]