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Alaska is purchased from Russia
Russia offered to sell Alaksa to the US because they thought it would offset their rival Great Britian. Russia sold Alaska for $7.2 million. The treaty was signed by secretary of state William Seward and minister Edouard De Stoeckl. -
Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad
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John D. Rockefeller starts Standard Oil
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Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone
American inventor, scientist and engineer.
Alexander also co-founded AT&T in 1885.
It took 10 years to perfect the telephone. -
Thomas Edison brings light to the world with the light bulb
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Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law signed by Chester A Arthur.
Lasted for 10 years but was extended for another 10 by the Geary Act.
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Samuel Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL)
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Sherman Anti-trust Act
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Carnegie Steel’s Homestead Strike
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Ellis Island opens
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Plessy v Ferguson
allowed seperate but equal rights between blacks and whites.
the reason for this occurng was the car act passed to seperate blacks and whites by travel.
although the act was passed, states still refused to accept that blacks were equal and madfe laws that do but don't go againt the new law. -
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
Main goal was to kick out all foreigners from China.
Boxers was a term used by foreigners given to a Chinese secret society known as the Yihequan.
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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”
Written to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States.
readers were more concerned with several passages exposing health violations and unsanitary practices in the American meat packing industry than the real purpose of the book.
the was purpose to describe the meat industry and its working conditions, but was to advance socialism -
Pure Food & Drug Act and The Meat Inspection Act are passed
Its main purpose was to ban foreign and interstate traffic in adulterated or mislabeled food and drug products.
It required that active ingredients be placed on the label of a drug’s packaging.
The jungle written by Sinclar exposed the ikndustires and helped back up why the laws needed to be placed. -
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 Shirtwaste Fire
About 150 died making it one of Americas most deadly in history.
Owners were charger with manslaughter after the fire.
The fire cuased laws to be placed for afer working enviroments. -
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
Joined and allied with Britain, France, and Russia.
More than 2million soldiers fought.
Entered because U-boats were sinking their boats on purpose even after making a peace dealm on ocean waters. -
Ratification of the 18th Amendment - Prohibition
Was put in place because of the temperence movement.
After the admendment was put in place a year late the Volstead act to provide federal enfourcement of prohibition.
the Volstesad act declared liquor such as wine, beer, and hard liquor as intoxicating. -
Women got the right to vote
