11 Highlights of 1907

As 2007 comes to a close, it's fascinating to take a look back and see how things have changed. A century ago, most of us could only expect to live until about 50! Check out this list of some of the major events of 1907.

20 Facts About the Statue of Liberty

The Statue of Liberty was given to the United States by France to symbolize freedom. Find out 20 interesting facts about the Statue of Liberty, including statue's real name and when construction began.

Dust Bowl

Dust Bowl, the popular name for that part of the southern Great Plains subjected to severe wind erosion during the 1930's.

Era of Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt believed that the Chief Executive should be an aggressive leader in both foreign and domestic affairs.

Francisco Villa

Villa, Francisco (known as Pancho ), the assumed name of Doroteo Arango (1877–1923), a Mexican outlaw and revolutionary leader.

Gifford Pinchot

Pinchot, Gifford (1865–1946), a United States forester and political leader. Pinchot was one of the first persons to advocate planned conservation of natural resources.

Grandfather clause

Grandfather Clause, a device once used by some states to discriminate against blacks in voting.

Hay-Pauncefote Treaty

Hay-Pauncefote Treaty, 1901–02, an agreement by which Great Britain recognized the right of the United States to build a canal across Nicaragua or Panama.

Initiative and Referendum

Initiative and Referendum, two methods of direct lawmaking by the people. These two devices of direct legislation are sometimes used where the voters have become too numerous or scattered to assemble in one meeting.

John Reed

Reed, John (Silas) (1887-1920), a United States journalist and revolutionary. He is best known for Ten Days That Shook the World (1919), an eyewitness account of the Russian Revolution of 1917.

La Follette

La Follette, a family prominent in United States politics and active in the Progressive movement in Wisconsin.

Lizzie Borden

Borden, Lizzie Andrew (1860–1927), the defendant in a celebrated murder case of the 1890's.

Louisiana Purchase Exposition

Louisiana Purchase Exposition, an exposition held in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1904.

Mooney Case

Mooney Case, a controversial California legal case that gained worldwide attention.

Muckrakers

Muckrakers, the name applied to certain United States writers who exposed social, economic, and political evils in the two decades before World War I.