| 1895 |
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Battle for Cuban independence (1895) |
| 1896 |
"All Coons Look Alike to Me"
"Down in Poverty Row" |
William McKinley is President of the United States (1897)
Battleship Maine explodes in Havana, Cuba (1898)
Treaty of Paris signed (1898)
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| 1899 |
"Hello! Ma Baby" |
Open Door Policy |
| 1900 |
"He Lies in the American Land"
"Lift Every Voice and Sing" |
Hawaii becomes a U.S. territory
Boxer Rebellion |
| 1901 |
"I'll Overcome Some Day" |
William McKinleyis assassinated
Theodore Roosevelt is President of the United States
Pennsylvania coal mine strike (1902)
Roosevelt Corollary issued (1904) |
| 1905 |
"We'll Understand it Better By and By" |
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| 1906 |
"You're a Grand Old Flag" |
1909 NAACP formed (1909)
William Howard Taft is President of the United States (1909) |
| 1910 |
"El Corrido de Gregorio Cortez"
"Chinatown, My Chinatown"
"Cancion mixteca" |
Mexican Revolution
Arizona, New Mexico statehood (1912)
Henry Ford introduces assembly line (1913)
Federal Reserve Act (1913)
Woodrow Wilson is President of the United States (1913) |
| 1914 |
"St. Louis Blues" |
Clayton Antitrust Act
Panama Canal opens
World War I begins |
| 1915 |
"I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier"
"Solidarity Forever" |
Lusitania sinks |
| 1917 |
"Over There" |
Russian Revolution
The U.S. Declares war on Germany
Armistice (1918)
Influenza epidemic (1918-1919) |
1919
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"The Alcoholic Blues" |
Treaty of Versailles
The Red Scare (1919-1920) |
| 1920 |
"So Long! Oo-Long (How Long You Gonna Be Gone?)"
"The Japanese Sandman"
"Women's Doxology"
"The Argentines, the Portuguese, and the Greeks"
"How 'Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the Farm?"
"Ching-A Ling's Bazaar" |
Prohibition begins
Women win suffrage
Harlem Renaissance
first radio station, KDKA in Pittsburgh, begins broadcasting |
| 1921 |
"I'm an Indian"
"Ain't We Got Fun" |
U.S. signs peace treaties with defeated central powers
Emergency Quota Act
Washington Conference
Teapot Dome Scandal (1923)
Calvin Coolidge is President of the United States (1923) |
| 1925 |
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The Great Gatsby is published (1925)
Scopes Trial (1925) |
| 1927 |
"Lindbergh, The Eagle of the U.S.A." |
Lindbergh flight
Sacco and Vanzetti executed
The Jazz Singer, the first talking movie, premieres
General Motors surpasses Ford as top auto producer
Philo T. Farnsworth invents television |
| 1928 |
"Henry's Made a Lady out of Lizzie" |
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Amelia Earhart's transatlantic flight |
| 1929 |
"Follow the Drinking Gourd"
"Black and Blue" |
Herbert Hoover is President of the United States
Stock Market Crash
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| 1930 |
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Unemployment reaches 5 million people (1930) |
| 1935 |
"Can the Circle Be Unbroken?" |
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