| 1890 | Moving picture shows first appear in NYC |
| 1892-1897 | An economic depression hits U.S. |
| 1894 | Labor Day established as a national holiday |
| 1894 | 750,000 US workers strike; 12,000 garment workers walk out of NYC sweatshops |
| 1898-1902 | Spanish-Cuban-American War; US acquires Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Phillippines; Filipinos, led by General Emilio Aguinaldo, begin fighting a war against US conquest |
| 1898 | Charlotte Perkins Gilman argues in Women and Economics that the traditional definition of sex roles is obsolete |
| 1900 | US Population: 75,994,575; 3.6 million immigrants have arrived since 1890 |
| 1900 | A quarter of a million children under the age of 15 work in factories, mines, and mills |
| 1900 | Formation of International Ladies Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU) in NYC |
| 1900-1914 | US averages one million immigrants a year |
| 1903 | Founding of Women's Trade Union League, linking middle and upper class women with female trade unionists |
| 1905 | First regular movie theater opens in Pittsburgh, PA, showing The Great Train Robbery for five cents |
| 1908 | NYC has 400 nickel movie houses |
| 1909-1910 | “Uprising of the 20,000,” a garment workers' strike that laid the foundation for the subsequent unionization of the garment industry |
| 1910 | US Population: 91.9 million; 8.7 million immigrants arrive in the previous decade |
| 1909-1913 | Nearly 40,000 clothing workers join unions |
| 1910 | Average US worker earns $15/week for 50-60 hours of work |
| 1910 | Founding of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People |
| 1911 | 146 garment workers die in Triangle Shirtwaist fire |
| 1912 | NY limits work week to 54 hours |
| 1912 | 38 states pass child labor laws Reformer Woodrow Wilson elected President |
| 1913 | 30,000 march for women's suffrage in NYC |
| 1914-1918 | World War I interrupts flow of immigrants |
| 1914-1920 | The Great Migration: 500,000 African-Americans migrate from South to North |
| 1920 | 19th Amendment passes: women win the right to vote |
| 1920 | The ILGWU claims more than 100,000 members and is one of the nation's most powerful industrial unions |
| 1924 | New federal laws sharply restrict immigration |
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