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Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone
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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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Thomas Edison brings light to the world with the light bulb
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Samuel Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL)
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Chinese Exclusion Act
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Sherman Antitrust Act
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Ellis Island opens
In 1892 Ellis Island officially opened. Ellis Island was where European immigrants would be vetted when they came to America. In Ellis Island they would check immigrants for diseases and decide who got to come and who got sent back -
Carnegie Steel’s Homestead Strike
In 1892 the Carnegie Steel's workers decided to form a union. They wanted to fight for better wages, better working conditions, and shorter hours. When the company decided they weren't gonna give it to them they went on strike. Carnegie Steel hired the Pinkerton agency to try to force the strikers to work again. It ended with 16 people dead. -
Plessy v Ferguson
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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
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Peak year of immigration through Ellis Island
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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 HemThe 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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Creation of the NAACP
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The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
In 1911 there was a factory staffed by mostly women. In the factory something caught on fire and 146 people died because there was no fire escapes. -
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
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Ratification of the 18th Amendment - Prohibition
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Women got the right to vote.
This event is important because women had been fighting for years to get their right to vote and it's good that they got their rights. -
Henry Ford produced his first Model T (car)
This invention was important because it changed the way we travel across America.
