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Alaska is purchased from Russia
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Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad May 10 1869
The First Transcontinental Railroad was a 1,912-mile continuous railroad line constructed between 1863 and 1869 that connected the existing eastern U.S. rail network at Council Bluffs, Iowa with the Pacific coast at the Oakland Long Wharf on San Francisco Bay. -
John D. Rockefeller started Standard Oil 1870
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Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone
Alexander Graham Bell is most well known for inventing the telephone. He came to the U.S as a teacher of the deaf, and conceived the idea of "electronic speech" while visiting his hearing-impaired mother in Canada. -
Thomas Edison brings light to the world with the light bulb Oct 14 1878
Edison and his team of researchers in Edison's laboratory in Menlo Park, N.J., tested more than 3,000 designs for bulbs between 1878 and 1880. In November 1879, Edison filed a patent for an electric lamp with a carbon filament. -
Chinese Exclusion Act May 6 1882
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Samuel Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL) 1886
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Sherman Antitrust Act July 2 1890
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Ellis Island opens Jan 1 1892
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Carnegie Steel’s Homestead Strike
The Homestead strike, also known as the Homestead steel strike or Homestead massacre, was an industrial lockout and strike which began on July 1, 1892, culminating in a battle between strikers and private security agents on July 6, 1892. The battle was a pivotal event in U.S. labor history. -
12. Plessy v Ferguson May 18 1896
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The U.S. declares war on Spain April 25 1898
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The Philippine Insurrection comes to an end May 1 1898
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Hawaii is annexed July 7 1898
n 1897, William McKinley succeeded Cleveland as United States president. A year later he signed the Newlands Resolution, which provided for the annexation of Hawaii on July 7, 1898. The formal ceremony marking the annexation was held at Iolani Palace on August 12, 1898. -
Rudyard Kipling published “The White Man’s Burden” in The New York Sun Feb 1899
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The start of the Boxer Rebellion June 20 1900
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Tenement Act April 12 1901
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Upton Sinclair releases “The Jungle” Feb 26 1906
The Jungle is a 1906 novel by the American journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair. Sinclair wrote the novel to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities. -
Pure Food & Drug Act and The Meat Inspection Act are passed June 30 1906
The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 was the first of a series of significant consumer protection laws which was enacted by Congress in the 20th century and led to the creation of the Food and Drug Administration. -
Peak year of immigration through Ellis Island April 17 1907
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The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe doctrine declares the U.S. right to intervene in the Wesern Hem Dec 1904
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9. Henry Ford produced his first Model T (car) Aug 12 1908
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Creation of the NAACP
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as a bi-racial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group including W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington and Moorfield Storey. -
Pres. McKinley is assassinated and Progressive Theodore Roosevelt becomes President March 4 1909
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The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire March 25 1911
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory 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 Assassination on Austria’s archduke Franz Ferdinand starts WWI June 28 1914
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The Panama Canal is completed and opened for traffic August 15 1914
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The United States enters WWI April 6 1917
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Ratification of the 18th Amendment - Prohibition Jan 16 1919
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Women got the right to vote. Aug 18 1920
The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the states and the federal government from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex.
