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1916 – Adamson Act; 1916 – Federal Farm Loan Act; 1916 – Jones Act; 1916 – 1916 United States presidential election: Woodrow Wilson is reelected president and Thomas R. Marshall is reelected vice president, by a mere 3,773 votes in California; 1916 – Germany agrees to restrict submarine warfare; 1916 – The Great Migration begins
Timeline of United States history (1900–1929) List of years in the United States; ... Events from the year 1916 in the United States. Incumbents. Federal government
A Monetary History of the United States; A Patriot's History of the United States; A People's History of the United States; Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Political Economy, and the Political History of the United States; Land of Promise: An Economic History of the United States; The History of the United States of America 1801–1817 ...
March 4 – Herbert Hoover is sworn in as the 31st president of the United States, and Charles Curtis is sworn in as the 31st vice president. March 16 – A part-talkie film version of Show Boat , based on Edna Ferber 's novel rather than the musical, premieres in Palm Beach (starring Laura La Plante and Joseph Schildkraut ).
It is the only volcano to erupt in the contiguous United States between 1900 and the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens. June 9 – U.S. Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan resigns over a disagreement regarding his nation's handling of the Lusitania sinking.
November 3 – The first automobile show in the United States opens at New York City's Madison Square Garden. November 6 – U.S. presidential election, 1900 : Republican incumbent William McKinley is reelected by defeating Democratic challenger William Jennings Bryan on a record turnout of 73.7%.
The intellectual leader of this movement was Alexander Hamilton, the first Secretary of the Treasury of the United States (1789–1795). [12] The United States rejected David Ricardo's theory of comparative advantage and protected its industry. The country pursued a protectionist policy from the beginning of the 19th century until the middle of ...
Recent History Of The United States 1865–1929 (1929) online old survey by scholar; Tindall, George B., and David E. Shi. America: A Narrative History (8th ed. 2009), university textbook; White, Richard. The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States During Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896 (Oxford History of the United States ...