I think the biggest thing would be the Spanish-American War, which marks the US’s start as a world power, our first real war fought outside the country. The S/A War only lasted about 3 months, but we took over the Philippines and then had to deal with an insurgency there, very much like the one we have in Iraq today, and that took another 3-4 years.

In 1901 President McKinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt became president. He did a lot of things to break up monopolistic businesses (called in those days ‘trusts’). He was a populist president, meaning he worked for the people, not the special interests. His presidency is very interesting to read about.

There was a terrible earthquake and fire in San Francisco in 1906. SF was the biggest city west of the Mississippi in those days.

Check out the Information Please online almanac for a US History timeline – it would be a good place to start.

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0903596.html

1896 – Plessy v Ferguson

1898 – Spanish/American War

1903 – US acquires Panama Canal Zone

1903 – 1st flight at Kitty Hawk

1906 – Large earthquake in San Franciso

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confident this is achievable. The Selective provider gadget remains in place, adult males nevertheless ought to sign up with it. in spite of the incontrovertible fact that, if there is yet another draft it is going to ought to be a classic draft, probable based upon a lottery gadget. women will ought to be secure too as you do no longer ought to be a male to fly try against jets, fly tanker jets, artwork as a nurse or universal practitioner or chaplain. There could be no justification to draft a guy to a non-try against interest without sharing the accountability with women. and don’t think of drafting women won’t ensue. for the period of Vietnam they might no longer get sufficient nurses to volunteer so as that they had a particular draft of 900 MALE nurses. right now a tournament could be filed with the aid of sexual discrimination and in the event that they opt to draft nurses, they’ll ought to flow after the girls besides because of the fact the adult males. Aint equivalent rights for women marvelous?

Spanish American War, 1898

Lizzie Borden, 1892

Spindletop, 1901