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Samuel Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL)
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Samuel Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL)
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Alaska is purchased from Russia
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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 starts Standard Oil
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John D. Rockefeller starts Standard Oil
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Tenement Act
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Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone
Alexander Bell hearing sound believed he could help people even more by inventing a device to send your voice through a wire.
He thought of an idea of electronic speech while he visited his hearing-impaired mother in Canada. He believed he could transmit sound through a wire when he thought of the idea when one of his assistants was trying to reactivate a telegraph transmitter. -
Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad
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Thomas Edison brings light to the world with the light bulb
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Chinese Exclusion Act
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Sherman Anti-trust Act
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Ellis Island opens
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Carnegie Steel’s Homestead Strike
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Plessy v Ferguson
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The U.S. declares war on Spain
The war on Spain was followed by the sinking of the U.S.S Maine in Havana harbor. The war was ended signing the Treaty
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Hawaii is annexed
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Rudyard Kipling published “The White Man’s Burden” inThe New York Sun
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The start of the Boxer Rebellion
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Peak year of immigration through Ellis Island
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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”
"The Jungle" was published serially in 1905 and was published as a single volume book in 1906. "The description on how the meat was diseased rotten and contaminated shocked the public. Was lead to the Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection are passed. -
Pure Food & Drug Act and The Meat Inspection Act are passed
Assured American people, the government was taking their steps to make sure their people were safe. It stopped the unsafe process off
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Henry Ford produced his first Model T (car)
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Creation of the NAACP
The NAACP was made in New York by white and black activists. It was in response to the violence against African Americans around the country. Led to the Springfield riot of 1908 due te race-based hatred. -
The Triangle Shirtwaste Fire
It was at Asch Building, Manhattan, New York City it killed 146 people and had 78 people with non-fatal injuries. This event brought attention to the public about the dangerous sweatshop, workshop conditions of factories. This event led to many regulations and laws to protect workers. -
The Assassination on Austria’s archduke Franz Ferdinand starts WWI
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he Panama Canal is completed and opened for traffic
The last time the Panama Canal was closed was in 1989 after the U.S. invaded Panama to topple strongman Manuel Noriega.
The Panama Canal took 10 years to make and more than 75,000
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The United States enters WWI
When the U.S. entered WW1 it allied with Britain, France, and Russia to Fight. WW1 lasted 4 years it started on July 28, 1914, and ended November 11, 1918. More than 16 million people died and was one of the worse fights in history. -
Ratification of the 18th Amendment - Prohibition
The main cause of prohibition in the first place was the many religious organizations that believed that less alcohol consumption would lessen the amount of crime. The League and other organizations influenced prohibition. Some benefits of the prohibition drunkenness lessened assault, vagrancy, and disorderly conduct. -
Women got the right to vote.
It was known as women's suffrage but was ratified on August 18, 1920. It ended almost a century of protest for their right to vote.
Susan B. Anthony was the leader of the women's suffrage act.
The first state to ratify the 19th amendment was Wisconsin Kansas ratified the 19th amendment on June 16, 1919.
