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Tenement Act
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Alaska is purchased from Russia
Russia offered to sell Alaska because they were in debt from the Crimean War. The treaty with Russia, was negotiated and signed by Secretary of State William Seward and the Russian Minister. Alaska was sold for $7.2 million but in today's time- it was about $125 million today. -
Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad
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John D. Rockefeller started Standard Oil
He built his first oil refinery near Cleveland incorporated with the Standard Oil Company. This helped established a strong foothold in the U.S. and other countries in the transportation, production, refining, and marketing of petroleum products. Rockefeller demanded rebates, or discounted rates, from the railroads. He used all these methods to reduce the price of oil to his consumers. -
Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone
Bell was always very interested in sound, because his mom and wife were deaf. On March 10th, Alexander made the very first phone call, to his assistant. The cost for a call was $9, for the first five minutes. -
Thomas Edison brings light to the world with the light bulb
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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 opened
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Start of immigration through Ellis Island
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Carnegie Steel’s Homestead Strike
The Homestead Strike, was a bitterly fought labor dispute. There were about 7 workers dead in the aftermath. They were on strike to try and get no wage decreases, because they would work for so many hours for a small amount of pay, this event was a major setback on the unionization of steel workers. -
U.S. declares war on Spain
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Plessy v Ferguson
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Hawaii is annexed
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Rudyard Kipling published “The White Man’s Burden” in The New York Sun
White Man's Burden is a phrase to justify European imperialism in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The phrase implies that imperialism was motivated by a high-minded desire of whites to uplift people of color. The Poem was written when the debate over ratification of the Treaty of Paris was still taking place, and while the anti-imperialist movement in the United States. -
The Philippine Insurrection comes to an end
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Start of the Boxer Rebellion
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Pres. McKinley is assassinated and Progressive Theodore Roosevelt becomes President
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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 & Drug Act and The Meat Inspection Act are passed
The main purpose of this act was to ban foreign and interstate traffic in adulterated or mislabeled food and drug products, and it directed the U.S. Bureau of Chemistry to inspect products. Meat inspections were done to prevent public health hazards such as food-borne pathogens, which are chemical contaminants in meat. Firstly, the Pure Food & Drug Act was passed and then the Meat Inspection Act to help control the production and distribution of meat. -
Henry Ford produced his first Model T (car)
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Creation of the NAACP
NAACP was formed in New York City by white and black activists, partially in response to the ongoing violence against African Americans around the country. The mission of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is to secure the political, educational and the economic equality of right for all people, especially for African Americans. Also, they're job was to try and eliminate the race-based discrimination and ensure the health and well-being of all people. -
The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
This fire took place in the Greenwich neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. The fire broke out on the top floor. Everyone on the higher floors were trapped because the fire escape doors were locked. Many workers jumped out of the windows, trying to save their own life but instead jumped to their deaths. This brought widespread attention to the dangerous conditions of factories and sweatshops, also the development of laws and regulations to better protect workers everywhere. -
The Assassination on Austria’s archduke Franz Ferdinand starts WWI
The political reason for the assassination was to break off Austria-Hungary's South Slav provinces so they could be combined into a new country, Yugoslavia. Franz and his wife were both shot by a Bosnian Serb nationalist during an visit to the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo. The Serb that assassinated them was a member of the Black Hand, which were know for solving a lot of matters by their self or with death involved. -
The Panama Canal is completed and opened for traffic
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The United States enters WWI
President Woodrow Wilson declared war because he got fired of American merchant ships being hit which lead to sinking. The US declared war with Germany because they sunk our U-boat called the Lusitania. We were were with the Allied Powers and against the Central Powers. We may have not been in the war very long but we did make a pretty good impact. -
Ratification of the 18th Amendment - Prohibition
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Women got the right to vote
