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Alaska is purchased from Russia
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Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad
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Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone
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Thomas Edison brings light to the world with the light bulb
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Chinese Exclusion Act
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Plessy v Ferguson
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John D. Rockefeller starts Standard Oil
Railroads relied on oil in order to continue trading product. Rockefeller nearly had a whole monopoly over the whole oil industry. he had the ambition to become the best coast-to-coast oil provider. -
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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Carnegie Steel’s Homestead Strike
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Hawaii is annexed
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The U.S. declares war on Spain
believed that spain sunk the USS Maine. America was also supporting filipinos and cubans against spanish rule. several other reasons made usa declare war. -
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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Peak year of immigration through Ellis Island
over 10,000 people passed through ellis island.the turn out rate was up to 85 percent, but several people would be detained for days. only 2 percent were turned away. -
Tenement Act
this was created to ensure that immigrants were given proper living conditions. it also helped with the risk of disease. it also included having an outdoors area for the tenants aswell. -
Pres. McKinley is assassinated and Progressive and Theodore Roosevelt becomes President
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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 & Drug Act and The Meat Inspection Act are passed
after muckrakers identified that their were unsanitary conditions in manufacturing plants in the book 'The Jungle', a bill was passed to ensure that all foods sold were to contain a nutrition label. -
Henry Ford produced his first Model T
this was the earliest effort to make a car. Affordable and popular among Americans. helps more Americans become closer. -
Creation of the NAACP
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The Triangle Shirtwaste Fire
Deaths were caused by no safety featured put in the factory. This led to the development of laws and regulations to ensure safety in the factories. -
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
several Americans were not in favor of going to war. but over 2 million people were enlisted to fight. people still tried to fight against the idea of war. -
Ratification of the 18th Amendment - Prohibition
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Women got the right to vote
the victory took decades and several ups and downs. slowly but surely every state became to grant women the right to vote.
