Documents in Year 1900                     

Links of Interest:

• William McKinley, Twenty-fifth U.S. President

(1897-1901)

• U.S. Census Overview 1900

• U.S. Census Fast Facts 1900

• Gold Standard Act Passed www.mintgov./kids

Set the worth of a dollar at 1.5 grams of gold and severed link with silver.
Go to 1971 for end of link between gold and U.S. currency.

• Edward S. Curtis

(American Photographer of Native Americans 1899-1929)

• Jell-O goes mainstream, Sugar is spun into cotton candy and Hershey manufactures a milk chocolate bar. Anderson, Jean American Century Cookbook. p 11