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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
Map of North America at the start of Queen Anne's War (1702), showing areas occupied by the three European powers. England reunites the Province of East Jersey and the Province of West Jersey as the Province of New-Jersey; Queen Anne's War, 1702 – April 11, 1713 Treaty of Utrecht, April 11, 1713
Events from the year 1900 in the United ... Two U.S. cruisers are sent to Central America to protect U.S. interests in a ... film director (died 1950 ...
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.
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.
For a timeline of events from 1801 to 1900, see Timeline of the 19th century; For a timeline of events from 1901 to 1945, see Timeline of the 20th century. For 1914–1918, see Timeline of World War I; For 1939–1945 see Timeline of World War II
The New Deal was a series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the United States of America between 1933 and 1939. Major federal programs agencies included the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), the Civil Works Administration (CWA), the Farm Security Administration ...
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