https://padlet.com/1813121/r5894mm2h67i en-us 2020-04-05 01:41:33 UTC 2025-10-26 07:22:04 UTC hello@padlet.com 1813121 https://padlet.com/1813121/r5894mm2h67i/wish/492850968 The Gold Standard Act of the Unites States was passed in 1900  and established gold as the only standard for redeeming paper money, stopping bimetallism . It was signed by President William McKinley. ]]> 2020-04-05 01:47:17 UTC https://padlet.com/1813121/r5894mm2h67i/wish/492850968 1813121 https://padlet.com/1813121/r5894mm2h67i/wish/492856454 The Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt began on September 14, 1901, when Theodore Roosevelt became the 26th President of the Unites States. This was after the assassination and death of president William McKinley. Roosevelt had been the Vice President of the United States for only 194 days when he succeeded to the presidency.]]> 2020-04-05 02:04:44 UTC https://padlet.com/1813121/r5894mm2h67i/wish/492856454 1813121 https://padlet.com/1813121/r5894mm2h67i/wish/492861472 The United States commenced building a canal across a 50-mile stretch of the Panama isthmus in 1904. The project was helped by the elimination of disease-carrying mosquitoes, while chief engineer John Stevens devised innovative techniques .]]> 2020-04-05 02:26:25 UTC https://padlet.com/1813121/r5894mm2h67i/wish/492861472 1813121 https://padlet.com/1813121/r5894mm2h67i/wish/492866279 The Sixteenth Amendment  to the United States Constitution allows Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states. The Sixteenth Amendment was ratified on February 3, 1913, and effectively overruled the Supreme Court's ruling in Pollock.]]> 2020-04-05 02:44:02 UTC https://padlet.com/1813121/r5894mm2h67i/wish/492866279 1813121 https://padlet.com/1813121/r5894mm2h67i/wish/492872002 The amended Joint Resolution was adopted by the Senate on a close vote in May of 1911. Over a year later, the House accepted the change, and the amendment was sent to the states for ratification. On April 8, 1913, three-quarters of the states had ratified the proposed amendment, and it was officially included as the 17th Amendment.]]> 2020-04-05 03:01:22 UTC https://padlet.com/1813121/r5894mm2h67i/wish/492872002 1813121 https://padlet.com/1813121/r5894mm2h67i/wish/492881870 World War I began in 1914 after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and lasted until 1918. During the conflict, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire fought against Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, Romania, Japan and the United States (the Allied Powers).]]> 2020-04-05 03:36:33 UTC https://padlet.com/1813121/r5894mm2h67i/wish/492881870 1813121 https://padlet.com/1813121/r5894mm2h67i/wish/492882846 A German U-boat torpedoed and sank the RMS Lusitania, a British ocean liner en route from New York to Liverpool, England. There were 1,900 passengers and crew members on board, and more than 1,100 perished, including more than 120 Americans.]]> 2020-04-05 03:40:08 UTC https://padlet.com/1813121/r5894mm2h67i/wish/492882846 1813121 https://padlet.com/1813121/r5894mm2h67i/wish/492886335 The Sussex Pledge was a promise made by Germany to the United States in 1916. Early in 1915, Germany had instituted a policy of unrestricted submarine warfare, allowing armed merchant ships, but not passenger ships, to be torpedoed without warning. Despite this restriction,  the Sussex, was torpedoed without warning on March 24, 1916 the ship was severely damaged and about 50 people died.]]> 2020-04-05 03:50:41 UTC https://padlet.com/1813121/r5894mm2h67i/wish/492886335 1813121 https://padlet.com/1813121/r5894mm2h67i/wish/492888333 The Treaty of Versailles was signed in June 1919  at the end of WWI. The Treaty of Versailles held Germany responsible for starting the war and caused loss of territory, massive reparations payments and demilitarization.]]> 2020-04-05 03:57:19 UTC https://padlet.com/1813121/r5894mm2h67i/wish/492888333 1813121 https://padlet.com/1813121/r5894mm2h67i/wish/492889570 The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted American women the right to vote, a right known as women’s suffrage, and was ratified on August 18, 1920, ending almost a century of protest.]]> 2020-04-05 04:01:46 UTC https://padlet.com/1813121/r5894mm2h67i/wish/492889570