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Alaska is purchased from Russia
The russians buy the state of alaska -
Completion of Transcontinental Railroad
The Completion of Transcontinental Railroad had long been dreamed by people -
John D. Rockefeller starts Standard Oil
incorporated the standard oil company in cleveland -
Alexander Graham bell invents the telephone
The first working telephone is invented -
24. Thomas Edison brings light to the world with the light bulb
thomas edison created the first working lightbulb -
Samuel Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL)
Promoted harmony among the diffrent craft unions -
Chinese exclusion act
United states federal law signed by president chester A. Aurthor -
Sherman Anti-trust Act
outlawed monopolistic buissnes practices -
Ellis Island opens
Was offically oppened as an imigration station -
Peak year of immigration through Ellis Island
1,004,756 immigrants processed -
Carnegie steel's homestead strike
Lock out and strike -
Plessy v Ferguson
It was a land mark decision -
22. The U.S. declares war on Spain
Spain sunk the battleship maine and the united states got mad -
Hawaii is annexed
America's annexation of Hawaii in 1898 extended U.S. territory into the Pacific and highlighted resulted from economic integration and the rise of the United States as a Pacific power. -
19. The Philippine Insurrection comes to an end
The Philippines viewed this as a cuntinuation of struggle for independence -
Rudyard Kipling published “The White Man’s Burden” in The New York Sun
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29. The start of the Boxer Rebellion
The chinese viewed foreigners as barbarians -
Pres. McKinley is assassinated and Progressive Theodore Roosevelt becomes President
When theodore became president he elected McKinley as assistant -
Tenement Act
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20. The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe doctrine declares the U.S. right to intervene in the Wesern Hem
Sought to prevent European intervention -
25. Upton Sinclair releases “The Jungle”
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Pure Food & Drug Act and The Meat Inspection Act are passed
One of the first costomer protection laws -
Creation of the NAACP
bi-racial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group -
21. The Triangle Shirtwaste Fire
A builsing in manhatten got destroyed by fire -
17. The Assassination on Austria’s archduke Franz Ferdinand starts WWI
Put australia into world war 1 -
18. The Panama Canal is completed and opened for traffic
People used it to get to places faster -
23. The United States enters WWI
Declared war against germany -
Ratification of the 18th Amendment - Prohibition
Prohibited the manufacture and transportation -
26. Women got the right to vote.
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Henry Ford produces his first Model T (car)
Henry Ford produced the first running car
