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1865 BCE
Rudyard Kipling published “The White Man’s Burden” in The New York Sun
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John D. Rockefeller starts Standard Oil
One of the worlds wealthiest men started standard oil in 1839. It all started by investing in an old refinery his friends had which became the biggest in Clevland. Over the next years he found more partners and grew his business into a multi million dollar company. -
Russia Purchases Alaska
Russia wanted to sell their Alaska territory due to the lack of being able to live there. Reasons for that were there lack of resources of things such as gold and the fear of being taken over by the United Kingdom. Most reactions to this Purchase were positive but some still opposed. -
Completion of Transcontinental Railroad
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Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone
Alexander Graham Bells invention of the telephone in 1876 was something that now today is so much more advanced and an everyday tool in most peoples lives. Even though faced with several lawsuits Alexander got his glory in the end. -
Thomas Edison brings light to the world with the light bulb
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Carnegie Steel’s Homestead Strike
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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 Anti-trust Act
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Ellis Island opens
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Plessy v Ferguson
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The U.S. declares war on Spain
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Hawaii is annexed
Aroused by the Spanish American war the US annexed Hawii in 1898. This did this due to worry that Hawii would join the Eurpoen nation Empire. -
The start of the Boxer Rebellion
The Boxer Rebellion is a Chinese secret organization called the Society of Righteous and Harmonious led uprising to spread western culture. The movement started in 1800 in Bejing area and they killed Chinese christians and missionaries and destroyed churchs and property. -
Tenement Act
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. Pres. McKinley is assassinated and Progressive Theodore Roosevelt becomes President
The 25th President Mckinley was assassinated at the Pan American Exposition at the Temple of Music In Buffalo. He was shot twice in his stomach by the anarchists Leon Czolgosz. -
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 Hemisphere
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Upton Sinclair releases “The Jungle”
The message that Upton Sinclair's book is about is the disgusting ways of the Meatpacking industry. Due to this book the Meat spackings problems were brought to the public and new saftey laws were rulled out. Without his book nowadays who knows meat could still be bad. -
Pure Food & Drug Act and The Meat Inspection Act are passed
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Peak year of immigration through Ellis Island
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Henry Ford produces his first Model T (car)
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Creation of the NAACP
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The Triangle Shirtwaste Fire
The fire that was started in 1911 killed up to 145 workers almost all of these deaths were preventable but due to the lack of safety procedures, those people weren't so lucky. This tradegy brought much needed attention to the very unsafe enviorments that the workers were exsposed too. This attention is what lead to many new safety laws. -
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
After the US Senate voted 82 to 6 the Germans declared war on the US. In 1914 when the war erupted President Wilson pledged neutrality for the US. This did not stop Germany and the US from becoming more frustrated with each other. Until Germany sunk many of the Us ships and that's when the war began. -
Ratification of the 18th Amendment - Prohibition
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Women got the right to vote.
Beginning in the 1800's women began picketing to fight for there right to vote. Between 1878 when the amendment was introduced to the Congress until 1920 when it was passed women fought tirelessly to win the fight for there freedom. Through all of the descimnation that went on around them they prevaiked and now today we have this previelage.
