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Standard Oil Company
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First Car Model is Produced.
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Alaskan Purchase.
Russia purchases Alaska, -
Alaskan Purchase.
We made an acquisition of Alaska. It was bought for a price of 7.2 million. When we bought it, it cut off the trade and settlements for Russia to the Pacific coast of North America. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
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Completion of Transcontinental Railroad
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Telephone Creation!
Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone. -
Telephone Creation!
Alexander Graham Bell was awarded the first U.S. patent for the invention of the telephone. It was a culmination of work done by many, although Alexander is given the credit. Although Samuel Morse's telegraph came first. -
Light bulb is introduced.
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Samuel Gompers founded the AFL
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Sherman Anti-trust act
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Ellis Islands Opened
Ellis Island officially opened as an immigration station. The first immigrant to be processed at this new federal immigration depot was 17 year old Annie Moore. She came from County Cork, Ireland. -
Carnegie Steel's Homestead Strike.
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Plessy V Ferguson
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US declares war on Spain.
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Hawaii is annexed.
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Rudyard Kipling published "The White Man's Burden."
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The start of the Boxer Rebellion
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Tenement Act
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President McKinley is assassinated.
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Philippine insurrection comes to an end.
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Monroe Doctrine.
The Monroe Doctrine had been sought to prevent European intervention in the Western Hemisphere, but now the Roosevelt Corollary justified American intervention throughout the Western Hemisphere. In 1934, Franklin D. Roosevelt renounced interventionism and established his Good Neighbor policy within the Western Hemisphere. -
Upton Sinclair releases "The Jungle"
"The Jungle" is a 1906 novel by Upton Sinclair. He wrote the novel to make the harsh conditions prominent and exploited the lives of immigrants. His primary purpose in describing the meat industry and its working conditions was to advance socialism in the US. -
Laws for Food Inspection Passed.
The two laws passed were the Pure Food & Drug Act and The Meat Inspection Act. Around this time food was filled with nasty things. These laws were a way to protect the food and filter it. -
Peak year of immigration through Ellis Island.
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NAACP is created
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Triangle shirtwaist fire.
This fire occurred in Greenwich Village. It was one of the deadliest industrial disasters in US history. It killed 145 workers due to neglected safety features and locked doors within the factory building. -
Assassination of Franz Ferdinand.
Franz was on a trip to City Hall. The car in front of them was supposed to carry six specially trained officers but instead had only one, plus three local policemen. Then when visiting wounded officers, they took a wrong turn and Franz and his wife shortly after were shot and killed. -
Panama Canal is completed and opened for traffic.
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US enters WW1
In early 1917 Berlin forced the issue. Its declared decision on 31 January 1917 to target neutral shipping in a designated war-zone became the immediate cause of the entry of the United States into the war. Five American merchant ships went down in March. -
Prohibition.
The ratification of the 18th amendment was completed. It did not prohibit the consumption of alcohol but rather the sale/manufacture. It was proposed by Congress on December 18, 1917 -
Women get the right to vote.
