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Alaska is purchased from Russia
United states reached an agreement with Russia for the price of 7.2 million. A Treaty was also signed by Secretary of state William Sward -
Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad
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John D. Rockefeller started Standard Oil
John D. Rockefeller formed the Standard Oil Company along with his younger brother William Henry Flagler along with a group of other men. -
Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone
Alexander is the father of the telephone but he wasn't the first person to come up with this idea. He invented it because he though he could solve the problem of sending a human voice over wire. -
Thomas Edison invents the Light Bulb
Edison and his crew tested over 3,000 designs for the light bulb. He filed a patent for an electric lamp with a carbon filament -
Chinese Exculsion Act
A law where prohibiting all immigration of Chinese labors. President Chester. A signed it. -
Samuel Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL)
Samuel Gompers founded this group because he believed there needed to be more safer laws with labor. He also believed that if somebody didn't do it, labor would of been never changed. -
Sherman Antritrust Act
Approved on this date, Was outlawed monopolistic Business practice. It was first measured passed by the U.S congress to prohibit trust. -
Ellis Island Opens
Offically opened as an immigration center. 17 year old Annie Moore was the first to be processed. -
Carnegie Steel's Homestead Strike
Workers went on strike in hopes of their wage not being decreased. Resulted in defeat. -
Plessy v ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S supreme court that upheld racial segregation laws. -
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 New York Sun
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The start of the Boxer Rebellion
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Tenement Act
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Pres. Mckinley is assassinated and Progessive 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 Western Hem
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Upton Sinclair releases The Jungle
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Pure food and Drug act and the Meat Inspection act are passed
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Peak Year of immigration through Ellis Island
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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 WWl
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The panama Canal is completed and opened for Traffic
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Ratification of the 18th amendment - Prohibition
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Women got the right to vote
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U.S enters WWl
