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July 24 – James MacGillivray publishes an account of Paul Bunyan in The Detroit News. August 20–21 – The Great Fire of 1910 wildfire burns about 3 million acres (12,000 km 2 ) in northeast Washington , northern Idaho , and western Montana over 2 days and kills 86 people (believed to be the largest fire in recorded United States history).
The 1910s (pronounced "nineteen-tens" often shortened to the "'10s" or the "Tens") was the decade that began on January 1, 1910, and ended on December 31, 1919. The 1910s represented the culmination of European militarism which had its beginnings during the second half of the 19th century.
1910s in the United States by state or territory (63 C) 1910s disestablishments in the United States (61 C, 3 P) 1910s establishments in the United States (65 C)
1910 The White-Slave Traffic Act , or the Mann Act , is a United States federal law passed June 25. [ 61 ] It is named after Congressman James Robert Mann of Illinois , and in its original form made it a felony to engage in interstate or foreign commerce transport of "any woman or girl for the purpose of prostitution or debauchery , or for any ...
1910 – Mann–Elkins Act; 1910 – Mann Act; 1911 – Supreme Court breaks up Standard Oil; 1911 – Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire; 1911 – First Indianapolis 500 is staged; Ray Harroun is the first winner; 1912 – RMS Titanic sank; 1912 – New Mexico and Arizona become states; 1912 – Girl Scouts of the USA was started by Juliette ...
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The Era of Theodore Roosevelt and the Birth of Modern America, 1900–1912. survey by leading scholar; Pease, Otis, ed. The Progressive Years: The Spirit and Achievement of American Reform (1962), primary documents; Thelen, David P. "Social Tensions and the Origins of Progressivism," Journal of American History 56 (1969), 323–341 in JSTOR