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Alasks Purchased from Russia
Alaska was purchased for $7.2 million. They had reached an agreement for that amount. The treaty was negotiated and signed by the Secretary of State, William Seward and Russian Minister to the US Edouard de Stoeckl. -
Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad
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John D. Rockefeller started Standard Oil
He entered into the then-fledging oil business in 1863 by investing in a Cleveland, Ohio. He established standard oil, which by the early 1800s controlled some 90% of the US refineries and pipelines. He was very serious about this oil and the oil business. -
Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone
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Thomas Edison brought light into the world with a light bulb
Was done at his laboratory in Menlo Park, New York. He had built his first high resistance, incandescent light. It worked by passing electricity through a thin platinum filament in the glass vacuum bulb, which delayed the filament from melting. -
Samuel Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor
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Chinese Exclusion Act
Was a United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur. It prohibited all immigration of Chinese Laborers. It was an act to execute certain treaty stipulations relating to the Chinese. -
Sherman Antitrust Act
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Ellis Island Opens
It was opened as an immigration station. A 17 year old from County Cork, Ireland, was the first person to get processed there. It was open for more than 60 years. -
Carnegie Steel's Homestead Strike
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Plessy v Ferguson
Plessy v Ferguson was a landmark. The Supreme Court upheld a decision that the constitutionality of racial segregation under the "separate but equal" doctrine. The case stemmed from an incident in 1892 when an african american train passenger refused to ride in a train car for blacks. -
The U.S. Declares War on Spain
This followed the sinking of the Battleship Maine in Havana harbor. The war ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris. The United States congress declared war. -
Hawaii is annexed
Dole declared Hawaii an independent republic. Hawaii was made a territory in 1900, and Dole became it's first governor. It was spurred by the nationalism aroused by the Spanish-American War. -
Rudyard Kipling published “The White Man’s Burden” in The New York Sun
Was first published in The Times (London). It was also published in The New York Sun. Before he published it, he sent a copy to Theodore Roosevelt. -
The Start of the Boxer Rebellion
Was an anti-imperalist, anti-foreign, and anti-Christian uprising in China. A Chinese secret organization called the Society of the Righteous and Harmonious fists led the uprising. It was in Northern China against the spread of Western and Japanese influence there. -
Peak Year of Immigration through Ellis Island
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The Philippine Insurrection comes to an end
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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 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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Henry Ford produced his first Model T (car)
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Creation of the NAACP
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The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
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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.
