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| 1901–7 |
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| Streetcar segregation. Only Georgia had a segregated streetcar ordinance before 1901. Then in rapid succession, such ordinances spread throughout the upper and lower South. | 1 |
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| 1901 |
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| Formation of the Socialist Party of America under the leadership of Morris Hillquit of New York City, Victor Berger of Milwaukee, and Eugene V. Debs of the American Railroad Union. | 2 |
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| March 2 |
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| The Platt amendment respecting Cuba was added to the Army Appropriation Bill for 1901–2. The Cuban constitutional convention incorporated the amendment in the Cuban constitution (June 12) as a condition of American withdrawal from the island. Cuba agreed not to impair its independence by treaty with foreign powers, not to assume public debt beyond the ability of its ordinary revenues to liquidate, to permit American intervention for the protection of Cuban independence, and to sell or lease to the United States land necessary for naval or coaling stations. | 3 |
| The Insular Cases decided. The Supreme Court held that territory might be subject to the jurisdiction of the United States without being incorporated into the country. The Constitution was not applicable, in every particular, to all lands over which the country exercised sovereignty. This enabled the United States to develop a distinctive colonial policy and to enact legislation for the government of colonized peoples. | 4 |
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| Sept. 14 |
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| President McKinley died from an assassin's bullet. | 5 |
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| Sept. 14–1909, March 4 |
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| THEODORE ROOSEVELT (1887–1944), 26th president. | 6 |
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