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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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John D Rockefeller starts Standard Oil
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Alaska is Purchased from Russia
President Andrew Johnson bought Alaska for $7.2 million. After buying Alaska everyone thought that he had made a huge mistake and they were mad at him for wasting so much money. With the 49th state purchased from Russia they found a bunch of natural resources and the land had been worth more than we bought it for. -
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Alaska is purchased from Russia
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Thomas Edison brings light to the world with the light bulb
Thomas Edison worked on perfecting the light bulb for years. His invention changed how we seen the world making it easier and safer to travel at night. -
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Thomas Edison brings light to the world with the light bulb
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Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone
Alexander wanted to create something that that as a "harmonic telegraph." The way that this early invention of a phone work is a current of electricity traveling through a wire that is able to transmit what we say to another location. -
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Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone
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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 Anti-trust Act
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Ellis Island opens
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Carnegie Steels Homestead Strike
Andrew Carnegie had left for a vacation in Ireland and left his plant manager Henry Clay Frick in charge. While Carnegie was in Ireland the union went on strike. During their strike Frick hired the strongest mercenary group (8 thousand militia members) at the time. Once the militia group had arrived they opened fire and killed a total of 16 people. -
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Carnegie Steel's Homestead Strike
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Plessy vs. Ferguson
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Hawaii is annexed
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The U.S. declares war on Spain
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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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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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Pure Food and Drug Act and The Meat Inspection Act are passed
After finding out that company's were putting drug's and leaving human meat to be package we passed the Pure Food and Drug Act. Company's like Coca-Cola would put cocaine into their drinks to make them more addicting and bring in more profits. Other company's such as meat company's would leave human hand/fingers or any other part of a person inside their packaging. -
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Pure Food and Drug Act and The Meat Inspection Act are passed
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Upton Sinclair releases “The Jungle”
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Peak year of immigration through Ellis Island
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Henry Ford Produced His First Model T (Car)
Henry Ford wanted to remake a car that was massed produced and affordable to every day people. Cars that were made at the time took a long time to build and was sold for a lot of money. Henry Ford made this easy for the average working citizen by making an assembly line making production much faster and the Model T cheaper. -
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Henry Ford produces his first Model T (car)
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Creation of the NAACP
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The Triangle Shirt Waste Fire
The Triangle Shirt Waste Fire was a horrific tragedy in New York that could have been avoided. The Managers lock the doors on a windowless room full of hundreds of workers. Because of this event new laws were set in place to prevent anything like this in the future. -
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The Triangle Shirtwaste Fire
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The Assassination on Austria’s archduke Franz Ferdinand starts WWI
The assassination of Austria's archduke was the start of WWI. The assassination wasn't committed by a government but by a rebel group. -
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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
The Panama Canal is a small part out of Central America that connects the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean making shipping goods and other items easier and faster from America and other countries. -
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The Panama Canal is completed and opened for traffic
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The United States enters WWI
Once the U.S. entered in the war we sent our troops over to Britain to train for another year before we sent them into war. As the troops marched to the trenches the confidence was "god-like" to the other European soldiers. -
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The United States enters WWI
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Women got the right to vote.
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Ratification of the 18th Amendment - Prohibition
