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Peak year of immigration through Ellis Island
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Alaska is purchased from Russia
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Completion of Transcontinental Railroad
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Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone
He first started to experiment with harmonic telegraph and phonograph. he experimented with the harmonic telegraph because it would send multiple messages throw a wire. The phonograph was used to record things and thats how he got the idea of a phone. -
Thomas Edison brings light to the world with the light bulb
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Chinese Exclusion Act
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Samuel Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL)
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Sherman Anti-trust Act
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Ellis Island opens
More than 12 million immigrants traveled from this island to start a new life. The government soon bought the island and built Fort Gibson for New York's Harbor defense system. The first person to be processed when they opened was a teenage girl. -
Carnegie Steel’s Homestead Strike
It started when the workers went on strike because of a wage cut. The Homestead strike effected the workers and the unionism. The strike was a success because it won the workers a three year contract in there favor. -
Pure Food & Drug Act and The Meat Inspection Act are passed
The drug has to have a label of the ingredients and cant fall below the purity level. The had to pass a law for the meat because rats would get into it and they would still serve it. It was the first federal law for food and drugs. -
The U.S. declares war on Spain
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Rudyard Kipling published “The White Man’s Burden” in The New York Sun
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The start of the Boxer Rebellion
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Tenement Act
It was the nations first comprehensive housing reform law. Before this family's would pack into little rooms. Tenement houses were most popular in New York City. -
Pres. McKinley is assassinated and Progressive Theodore Roosevelt becomes President
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The Philippine Insurrection comes to an end
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The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe doctrine declares the U.S. right to intervene in the Wesern Hem
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Upton Sinclair releases “The Jungle”
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Ratification of the 18th Amendment - Prohibition
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Plessy v Ferguson
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Henry Ford produces his first Model T (car)
Goteborg Daimler invented the first automobile but it was two expensive for everyone at the time. Tom Ford then went and made the first inexpensive car. The Model T was sold for $850 which is $21,340 in today's money. -
Creation of the NAACP
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The Triangle Shirtwaste Fire
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The Assassination on Austria’s archduke Franz Ferdinand starts WWI
He got killed traveling to go check up on his troops because the car he was in had the top off. five years to the day after Franz Ferdinand’s death WWI was ended. Austria-Hungary blames the Serbian government for the death of Ferdinand. -
The Panama Canal is completed and opened for traffic
It was a american built waterway connecting the Atlantic and Pacific ocean. It is a 48 mile long canal that was made for international trade. The panama canal brought in 2 billion a year in revenue. -
The United States enters WWI
There was 4,734,991 U.S troops that was involved in WWI. The U.S. joined the allies that was at war against the central powers. American troops landed in France and held off a Germany offensive. -
Women got the right to vote.
two main groups formed when fighting to give women the right to vote, National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies and the Women’s Social and Political Union. The groups eventually got nick names, the Suffragists and the Suffragettes. The two groups used 2 very different tactics to get attention drawled to them. -
John D. Rockefeller starts Standard Oil
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Hawaii is annexed
