Timeline Project

By robinlog

  • John D. Rockefeller starts Standard Oil

  • Samuel Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL)

  • Completion of Transcontinental Railroad

  • Plessy v Ferguson

  • Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone

  • Alaska is purchased from Russia

  • Thomas Edison brings light to the world with the light bulb

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

  • Sherman Antitrust Act

  • Ellis Island opens

  • Carnegie Steel Homestead Strike

  • Hawaii is annexed

  • The U.S. declares war on Spain

  • Rudyard Kipling published “The White Man’s Burden" in The New York Sun

  • The start of the Boxer Rebellion

  • Tenement Act

  • Pres. McKinley is assassinated and Progressive Theodore Roosevelt becomes President

  • The Philippine Insurrection comes to an end

  • The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe doctrine declares the U.S. right to intervene in the Western Hem

  • Upton Sinclair releases “The Jungle”

  • Pure Food & Drug Act and The Meat Inspection Act are passed

  • Peak year of immigration through Ellis Island

  • Henry Ford produced his first Model T (car)

  • Creation of the NAACP

  • The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

  • The Assassination of Austria’s archduke Franz Ferdinand starts WWI

  • The Panama Canal is completed and opened for traffic

  • The United States enters WWI

  • Ratification of the 18th Amendment - Prohibition

  • Women got the right to vote