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Pres. McKinley is assassinated and Progressive Theodore Roosevelt becomes President
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Tenement Act
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Alaska is purchased from Russia
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Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad
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John D. Rockefeller started Standard Oil
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Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone
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Thomas Edison brings light to the world with the light bulb
Light bulbs already existed by that time, but Edison recreated it to resist heat, and at the same time it is incandescent and gives out more light -
Chinese Exclusion Act
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Samuel Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL)
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Sherman Antitrust Act
A law that passed a banning monopolistic business practices -
Ellis Island opens
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Carnegie Steel’s Homestead Strike
An industrial lockout that then created a massacre, seven workers were killed -
Plessy v Ferguson
It was court case between Plessy and Ferguson was a advancement to black rights as "separate but equal" -
Hawaii is annexed
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Rudyard Kipling published “The White Man’s Burden” in The New York Sun
warns about the personal costs faced, endured, and paid in building an empire. -
The start of the Boxer Rebellion
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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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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)
The forced modeled car to drive without any help from anyone else, it had a v4 engine -
Creation of the NAACP
NAACP aka National Association for the Advancement of Colored People -
The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
A tragic fire that happened in a factory, with it being the deadliest industrial disaster, it had killed 146 people were killed -
The Assassination on Austria’s archduke Franz Ferdinand starts WWI
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The Panama Canal is completed and opened for traffic
When the panama canal was open and used for the public, President Jimmy signed a treaty to hand over the canal by the end of the century -
The United States enters WWI
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Ratification of the 18th Amendment - Prohibition
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Women got the right to vote.
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The U.S. declares war on Spain
