1900-1920

By schawannagray

  • President Theodore Roosevelt

    The energetic Republican President had taken his first oath of office upon the death of President McKinley, who died of an assassin's gunshot wounds on September 14, 190

  • Typhoid Mary

    Feb 19 Typhoid Mary [Mary Mallon] is freed from her first periods of forced isolation and goes on to cause several further outbreaks of typhoid in the New York area

  • Alexander Graham Bell

    Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service, speaking from New York to Thomas A. Watson or Thomas Watson in San Francisco.

  • Guinn v. United States

    The Supreme Court of the United States named U.S. Supreme Court hands down its decision in 'Guinn v. United States' 238 US 347 1915, striking down an Oklahoma law denying the right to vote to some citizens.

  • Hurricane hits Galveston, Tx

    17th August » A 1915 Galveston hurricane Category 4 hurricane hits Galveston, Texas with winds at convert 135 mph km/h.

  • Women gained the right to vote

    The women’s suffrage movement reached as far back as 1638, when Margaret Brent, a successful businesswoman in Virginia, demanded the right to vote in the state’s House of Burgesses. By 1920, every state west of the Mississippi River allowed women to vote.

  • The Klan

    The Ku Klux Klan, a genocidal domestic terrorist organization founded during Reconstruction, was revitalized in 1920, the result in part of new Klan leadership with an eye for publicity. The Klan’s activities, Burns describes, were “reigns of terror, spaced widely in time and place,” that could be “loosely compared to latter-day outbreaks of the Inquisition.”