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Alaska is purchased from Russia
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Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad
This was a golden spike was at Utah, signaling the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in the United States. The transcontinental railroad had long been a dream for people living in the American West -
Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone
Alexander Graham Bell is most well known for inventing the telephone. He came to the The United States as a teacher for the deaf kids and conceived the idea of "electronic speech" while visiting his hearing-impaired mother in Canada. -
Peak year of immigration through Ellis Island
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Chinese Exclusion Act
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Samuel Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL)
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Sherman Antitrust Act
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Ellis Island opens
Ellis Island officially opened as a route to America on January 1, 1892. Seventeen-year-old Annie Moore, from County Cork, Ireland was the first immigrant to be processed at the new federal immigration depot. -
Carnegie Steel’s Homestead Strike
The Homestead strike, in Pennsylvania, one of the most powerful new corporations, Carnegie Steel Company, against the nation's strongest trade union, the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers. -
Plessy v Ferguson
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The 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 The New York Sun
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The Philippine Insurrection comes to an end
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The start of the Boxer Rebellion
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Tenement Act
one of the first laws to ban the construction of dark poorly ventilated tenement buildings in the state of New York. This Progressive Era law required new buildings to have outward-facing windows, indoor bathrooms, proper ventilation, and fire safeguards. -
Pres. McKinley is assassinated
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Theodore Roosevelt becomes President
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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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Thomas Edison brings light to the world with the light bulb
Edison tested the one he's famous for resisting the heat of the current of electricity, while at the same time it becomes incandescent, and gives out one of the most brilliant lights which the world has ever seen. -
Pure Food & Drug Act and The Meat Inspection Act are passed
The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 was signed by President Theodore Roosevelt on the same day as the Federal Meat Inspection Act. -
Henry Ford produced his first Model T (car)
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Creation of the NAACP
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The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
fire in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City on March 25, 1911, was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city, and one of the deadliest in U.S. history. -
The Panama Canal is completed and opened for traffic
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The Assassination on Austria’s archduke Franz Ferdinand starts WWI
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The United States enters WWI
The U.S. joined its allies--Britain, France, and Russia--to fight in World War I. Under the command of Major General John J. Pershing, more than 2 million U.S. soldiers fought on battlefields in France. Many Americans were not in favor of the U.S. entering the war and wanted to remain neutral. -
Ratification of the 18th Amendment - Prohibition
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Women got the right to vote.
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John D. Rockefeller started Standard Oil
American industrialist John D. Rockefeller was born July 8, 1839, in Richford, New York. He built his first oil refinery near Cleveland and in 1870 incorporated the Standard Oil Company. By 1882 he had a near-monopoly of the oil business in the U.S., but his business practices led to the passing of antitrust laws.
