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1900 | The Foraker Act establishes a government for Puerto Rico |
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1900 | The citizens of Hawaii receive American citizenship |
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1900 | Gold Standard Act |
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1900 | William McKinley reelected president GO ! |
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1901 | U.S. President McKinley assassinated, Theodore Roosevelt sworn in as successor GO ! |
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1901 | Supreme Court insular cases |
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1901 | Platt Amendment approved by Congress GO ! |
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1902 | Drago Doctrine |
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1902 | Filipino-American War ends GO ! |
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1903 | Big Stick Diplomacy |
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1903 | Hay-Herran Treaty |
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1903 | Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty GO ! |
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1903 | Elkins Act - eliminates use of rebates by railroads |
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1904 | Theodore Roosevelt elected president GO ! |
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1904 | Roosevelt Corollary |
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1904 | Over next two years, United States intervenes in Nicaragua, Guatemala, and Cuba |
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1905 | Lochner v. New York (beginning of the "substantive due process" era) |
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1906 | Pure Food and Drug Act |
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1906 | Meat Inspection Act |
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1906 | Hepburn Act - strengthens powers of ICC |
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1907 | Oklahoma is the 46th admitted to the Union |
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1907 | Gentleman's agreement with Japan |
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1908 | Aldrich Vreeland Act |
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1908 | Root-Takahira Agreement |
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1908 | William Howard Taft elected president GO ! |
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1909 | NAACP formed |
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1910 | Mann-Elkins Act |
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1911 | United States intervenes in Nicaragua |
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1912 | Alaska receives territorial status |
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1912 | New Mexico is the 47th admitted to the Union |
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1912 | Arizona is the 48th admitted to the Union |
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1912 | Progressive party founded by T Roosevelt GO ! |
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1913 | Bill creating U.S. Federal Reserve System becomes law GO ! |
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1913 | Woodrow Wilson becomes 28th U.S. president GO ! |
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1913 | Sixteenth Amendment (income tax) GO ! |
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1913 | Underwood Tariff - effort to increase competition in industry |
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1913 | Seventeenth Amendment (direct election of senators) passed GO ! |
