1913
The Sixteenth Amendment (income tax) becomes law.

The Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution becomes law, providing for direct election of United States senators by the people, instead of the state legislatures.

The Webb Alien Land Bill is enacted in California. It excludes Japanese from land ownership.

The Supreme Court upholds the constitutionality of the Mann Act, popularly called the White Slave Traffic Act.

The Ford Motor Company sets up the first moving assembly line and is soon producing 1000 Model T's per day. Ford pays workers an unheard-of minimum wage of $5 a day and establishes a 40-hr. workweek.

Thirty thousand march for women's suffrage in New York

1914
U.S. Marines occupy Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

Panama Canal opens.

The Federal Trade Commission is established and seeks to regulate interstate commerce.The Commission's intent is to prevent monopolies in business and to maintain competition in commerce.

The Clayton Antitrust Act strengthens the Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890. The Act limits the use of court injunctions in labor disputes and exempts labor and farm organization from anti-trust laws.

World War i begins. Wilson declares the United States Neutral, but offers to mediate the dispute and negotiate a peace between the warring countries..

Edgar Rice Burroughs publishes Tarzan of the Apes.
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