A Growing World Power
1891 - 1913
1891 James Naismith invents basketball
1892 Ellis Island opens
1893 American Take-over of Hawaii
1894 Pullman strike in Chicago
1895 America's first automobile race
1896 Dow Jones Industrial Average first publihsed
1897 Bram Stoker publishes Dracula
1898 USS Maine explodes in Havana harbor
1899 Patent issued for Aspirin
1900 Boxer rebellion in China
1901 William McKinley assassinated
1902 AAA begun
1903 First Crayola crayons
1904 General Slocum ferry disaster
1905 First Nickelodeon theater opens
1906 San Francisco earthquake
1907 Romanian Peasants' Revolt
1908 Robert Baden-Powell starts Boy Scouts
1909 First use of fingerprints in law case
1910 Boxer Jack Johnson beats James Jeffries
1911 Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire
1912 Sinking of the Titanic
1913 First crossword puzzle
1914 - 1920
1921 - 1928
1929 - 1940
1929 St. Valentines Massacre
1930 'All Quiet on the Western Front' film
1931 Japan invades Manchuria
1932 Parking meter invented
1933 Prohibition repealed
1934 Bonnie and Clyde killed by FBI
1935 Persia renamed Iran
1936 Olympian Jesse Owens wins 4 gold medals
1937 Amelia Earhart disappears
1938 Seabiscuit beats War Admiral
1939 New York World's Fair opens
1940 Prehistoric cave paintings discovered in France
Supplemental Information For This Era
American Troops Abroad
Spain dominated Cuba in the late 19th century. Spurred by tales against the population by their Spanish overlords, it took an explosion on the battleship Maine to catapult our country into conflict.
Library of Congress 1898
Images of Spanish American War
Causes of the War
The USS Maine
The Rough Riders and T.R.
Treaty of Paris
The War to End All Wars
A Bosnian student changed history one day in 1914 by assassinating a member of German royalty and his wife. The resulting war produced some of the most horrific weapons used in conflict and killed millions of Europe's young men.
World War I
Causes of WWI
Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, 1914
Germany's Last Kaiser
The Great War Timeline
Trench Warfare
Weapons
Results of the War
World War I Material
Small Arms
Rifles
Tanks
Artillery
Aircraft
Social Management
The act of making alcohol illegal was an effort to place controls on an American society. See how the experiment went. Having grown up on Chicago's south side, tales of parents and friend's parent’s involvement in this era was the norm for the Webmaster.
The 18th Amendment
Prohibition
The Prohibition Era
1919-1933
The Roaring 20's
1920's Gangsters
The stock market crash of '29 may have been the instigator of the Depression but economic policies made it more prolonged. See what your grandparents endured to give us a better life.
About the Great Depression
Great Depression Pictures
NY Times
Crash of 1929
About the Great Depression
Depression Timeline