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Brown Timeline Project

By brownkri

  • Alaska is purchased from Russia

  • Completion of Transcontinental Railroad

  • John D. Rockefeller starts Standard Oil

  • Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone

    Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone

    -On March 7, 1876, Bell was awarded a patent on the device, and three days later, he made his first telephone call to Thomas Watson
    -He had an almost 20 year battle with people who claimed that they had invented it, not him.
    -Within 10 years 100,000 people had telephones.
  • Thomas Edison brings light to the world with the light bulb

    Thomas Edison brings light to the world with the light bulb

    -After the invention of Edison's light bulb, it was followed by the start of the Edison Electric Illuminating Company of New York
    -Edisons lightbulb was based off past knowledge and was a different version of someone elses
    -Edison made the first cheap successful bulb in 1879

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

  • Samuel Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL)

  • Sherman Anti-trust Act

  • Ellis Island opens

  • Carnegie Steel’s Homestead Strike

  • Plessy v Ferguson

    Plessy v Ferguson

    • This made the rule of having public facilities and having them separate but equal -The case started in 1892 as a challenge to Louisiana’s Separate Car Act -it gave punishment to laws designed to achieve racial segregation

  • Hawaii is annexed

  • The U.S. declares war on Spain

    The U.S. declares war on Spain

    -United States declared war on Spain after the sinking of the Battleship Maine in Havana
    -The signing of the Treaty of Paris, ended the war on December 10, 1898.
    - Spain lost its control over, Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippines Islands, Guam, and other islands.

  • Rudyard Kipling published “The White Man’s Burden” in The New York Sun

  • The start of the Boxer Rebellion

  • Tenement Act

  • Pres. McKinley is assassinated and Progressive Theodore Roosevelt becomes President

  • The Philippine Insurrection comes to an end

  • The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe doctrine declares the U.S. right to intervene in the Wesern Hem

  • Upton Sinclair releases “The Jungle”

  • Pure Food & Drug Act and The Meat Inspection Act are passed

  • Peak year of immigration through Ellis Island

  • Henry Ford produces his first Model T (car)

    Henry Ford produces his first Model T (car)

    -Ford factories produced more than 15 million Model Ts.
    -The first model Ts were not available in black.
    -They started out with hand cranks, but turned to battery starters.
  • Creation of the NAACP

    Creation of the NAACP

    -It was created to advance justice for African Americans
    -It is America’s oldest and largest civil rights organization
    -Some of the founding members included some white progressives
  • The Triangle Shirtwaste Fire

    The Triangle Shirtwaste Fire

    -The fire brought widespread attention to the poor conditions of the workplace
    -The owners employed young immigrant women who worked in a cramped space at sewing machines
    -Forty-nine workers had burned to death or been suffocated by smoke, 36 were dead in the elevator shaft and 58 died from jumping to the sidewalks

  • The Assassination on Austria’s archduke Franz Ferdinand starts WWI

  • The Panama Canal is completed and opened for traffic

    The Panama Canal is completed and opened for traffic

    -Construction on the canal began in 1881.
    -On November 3, 1903, some Panamanians declared independence from Colombia.
    -in 1977 U.S. the president signed a treaty to turn over the canal to Panama by the end of the century
  • The United States enters WWI

    The United States enters WWI

    -More than 2 million U.S. soldiers fought on battlefields in France.
    -Some Americans didn't want to enter in WWI and they wanted to stay neutral
    -When the war started, the president actually pledged neutrality

  • Ratification of the 18th Amendment - Prohibition

  • Women got the right to vote.

    Women got the right to vote.

    -Sometimes those who did not agree, would abuse the women and put them in jail
    -Secretary of State certified the ratification on August 26, 1920
    -19th Amendment gave women the right to vote