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Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone
He began a teacher for the deaf and then he wanted to have something to communicate. His mother was hearing impaired. HE wanted to figure out a electronic way for them to hear, so he invented the microphone. -
Alaska is purchased from Russia.
The price Russia payed for Alaska was 7.2 million dollars. The treaty of Russia was signed bu Edouard de Stoeckl. They had a deal to purchased Alaska and called it Seward's Folly. -
Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad
It was a dream for a lot of people to have this railroad. To make it easier to have transportation. This was the train that traveled in the West, so it was easier to go across places. -
Thomas Edison brings light to the world with the light bulb
They call a filament housed in a glass vacuum bulb an Edison's lamp. He came with resistance system that require far less electrical power that was used for the arc lamp. He built the first high resistance it is and incandescent electric light. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
The federal law was signed by the President Chester A. Arthur. It was prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. It banned Chinese women from immigrating to the United States. -
Samuel Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL)
It was a Jewish immigrant labor union leader and it was major importance in American labor history. It was served as the organization president. Gompers and the AFL openly supported the war effort. -
Sherman Antitrust Act
It was the 1st Federal act that was outlawed the monopolistic business practices. It was the 1st measure passed the congress to prohibit trusts. The trust was an arrangement bu which stockholders in several companies that transferred their shares to a single set of the trustees. -
Ellis Island opens
Ireland was the first immigrant to be processed at the new federal immigration depot. It was served as an immigration station. There was a lot a places that had arrivals. -
Peak year of immigration through Ellis Island
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Carnegie Steel’s Homestead Strike
It was a violent labor dispute between the Carnegie steel company and the workers. It didn't help the company's management. There was a gun battle that resulted Pinkerton agents and strikers that got killed and injured. -
The U.S. declares war on Spain
The war sinking the Battleship Maine in Havana. The ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris. The result was they lost its control over the remains of its overseas empire. -
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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The Philippine Insurrection comes to an end
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The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe doctrine declares the U.S. right to intervene in the Wesern Hem
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Upton Sinclair releases “The Jungle”
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Pure Food and Drug Act and The Meat Inspection Act are passed.
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Henry Ford produced his first Model T (car)
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John D. Rockefeller started Standard Oil
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Creation of the NAACP
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The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
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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
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The United States enters WWI
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Ratification of the 18th Amendment- Prohibition
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Women got the right to vote.
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Pres. McKinley is assassinated and Progressive Theodore Roosevelt becomes President
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Plessy vs. Ferguson
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Hawaii is annexed
