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Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone
Alexander Graham Bell's invention fundamentally changed the way that we communicate. Without this invention our messages would take much longer to communicate and might have ended up with armies at the time not being able to communicate as easily with base. Without this invention messages could've still taken hours or even days to deliver. -
Alaska is purchased from Russia
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Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad
This railroad revolutionized the way that we transported goods. It connect the Council Bluffs, Iowa, with the San Francisco Bay. This also allowed us to travel to other parts of the country much easier. -
John D. Rockefeller started Standard Oil
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Thomas Edison brings light to the world with the light bulb
Edison's invention revolutionized the world. It allowed us to see without need to burn oil in a lamp, so it made kerosene more available for other things. With the invention of the light bulb people were able to extend there day since the night would not be in complete darkness. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
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Samuel Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL)
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Sherman Antitrust Act
The Sherman Antitrust Act regulated competition between business. It made it so that A business could not have a monopoly over an industry. Prevented power from reducing economic competition. -
Ellis Island opens
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Carnegie Steel's homestead strike
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Plessy v Ferguson
This case allowed for separate but equal. what this meant was that black people would still have rights but they would not be let in the same places as white people. This later led to the Jim Crow Laws which were meant to discriminate against black people. -
The U.S. declares war on Spain
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Hawaii is annexed
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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
The Boxer Rebellion greatly weakened China. The Boxers were fighting against western control over China. They made the Western Imperial powers realize that trying to make China a colony was a bad idea. -
Tenement Act
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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”
Upton Sinclair reveals the horror of the meat packing industry. He detail the filthy condition of the factory and the tools used to prepare the meat. This leads to the Pure food and Drug act. -
Pure Food & Drug Act and The Meat Inspection Act are passed
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Peak year of immigration through Ellis Island
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Henry Ford produced his first Model T (car)
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Creation of the NAACP
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The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
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The Assassination on Austria’s archduke Franz Ferdinand starts WWI
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The Panama Canal is completed and opened for traffic
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The United States enters WWI
The war caused the U.S. economy to skyrocket. It solidified America as a leader in military and industrial power. The U.S. entering the war finally broke the stalemate between the Powers, because of their large population and vast resources. -
Ratification of the 18th Amendment - Prohibition
This was an attempt to stop crime and other social problems, but it did not go according to plan. It led to a rise in organized crime. It led to a rise in crime because people would make and sell alcohol illegally and made a lot of money from it. -
Women got the right to vote.
This was a huge victory for the women's rights movement. However after this women were still discriminated against. Suffragists continued fighting for more women's rights.
