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American
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Major US
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1900
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1907 "The Caballero's
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1908 Bureau of Investigation, later called the FBI, established
within Department of Justice.
1908 Henry Ford introduces the Model T.
1908 National Board of Censorship formed.
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1909 William H. Taft |
1909 The NAACP (National Association for the
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1910
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1911 The Urban League, a black social welfare
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1913 Woodrow Wilson |
1913 Federal income tax instituted. |
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1914 U.S. troops invade Mexico. |
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1916 "Paper Pills" |
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1917 "A Jury of Her Peers" |
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1917 U.S. enters World War I. |
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1918 End of World War. More than 135,000
Americans dead and roughly 300,000 wounded. A small number by
European standards. |
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1919 Major Labor unrest.
1919 Race riots in Chicago.
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1920
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1920 Nineteenth Amendment to Constitution is
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1921 Warren G. Harding |
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