1900

• Twenty-five law schools form the Association of American Law Schools; law students must have high school diplomas, take a two-year course of instruction, and have access to a law library.
• On December 27, Prohibitionist Carry Nation begins raiding saloons in Kansas.

1901

• On May 27, the Supreme Court decides the first of the "Insular Cases," which declare that some, but not all, provisions of the U.S. Constitution and laws apply in former Spanish colonies that are now American territories (Puerto Rico, the Philippines, Guam).
• On September 6, President McKinley is shot in Buffalo, New York, by Leon Czolgosz, an anarchist. McKinley dies on September 14. Theodore Roosevelt becomes president.
• On September 23, Leon Czolgosz goes on trial for murdering President McKinley. He is convicted.
• On October 29, Czolgosz is electrocuted.

1902

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