Century TImeline

By yesseniatorres

  • Samuel Gompers founded the american federation of labor

  • John D. Rockefeller starts Standard Oil

  • Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone

    Fist words where to his assistant ¨Mr.Watson, come here. I want to see you¨. Later on by 1886 more than 150,0000 people owned one. Now the elevoltion of a telephone is big. being able to talk to family really far or near by it is so much help to get information around and just being able to talk to people with out having to send out a bird with a paper.

  • Alaska is purchased from Russia

  • Completion of Transcontinental Railroad

  • Upton sinclair releases ¨The Jungle¨

  • Thomas Edison brings light to the world with the light bulb

    Many people have done their own things to make the light bulb to work but the one man to make it work was Thomas Edison. With the light bulb now we dont have to go around in the dark holding candels. we have the chance to just turn on a switch and there is it light.

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

  • Sherman Anti Trust Act

    Named after one its main supporters Ohio Senator John Sherman. This act was made to maintain free competition in business. If in which you are cought monopolized any part of the trade is a crime. This act brougt a balance in industy allowing equal opportunitie sto alll businesses

  • Ellis Island opens

  • Carnegie Steel´s Homestead Strike

  • Plessy V Ferguson

  • US declares war on Spain

  • Hawaii is annexed

  • The Philippine insurrection comes to an end

  • Rudyard kipling published ¨the white mans 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 Roosevelt Corollary to the monroe doctrine declares US right to intervene in the Western Hem

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

    First federal law to regulate foods and drugs. Groups raised awareness to the dangerous and unhealthly working conditions. in which they where foruced to work in to making the life earnings.

  • Peak year of immigration through ellis island

  • Henry Ford produces his first Model T Car

    It was the first affordable automoblie. had nine different style changes and 4 colors which where grey, green, blue and red. this car made traveling so much faster and easier for people to get around.

  • Creation of NAACP

    The National Association for the Advancement of Colored Pople was founded after a race riots broke out in Springfield Illinois. It was established to eliminate racial discrimination, fair housing, employment, social change, legal actions and fair educations.

  • The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

  • The Assassination on Austrias archduke Franz Ferdinand at the start of WWI

  • The Panama Canal is completed and opened for traffic

    Was started but not finished due to not having enough money, so the US took over and finsihed it. Over 25,000 people died trying to finsh the over 50 miles long canal .US transferred control over to panama.

  • The United States enter WWI

  • Ratification of the 18th Amendment - Prohibition

  • women got the right to vote

    The 19th amendemnt is the women´s right to vote which took over 70 years. women at the time didnt own property and had no legal claim to money or there own children. this movement started off small and then went on a grew a grew. men and some other women saw that women should only have to worry about motherhood and housework.