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Alaska is purchased from Russia
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Completion of Transcontinental Railroad
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John D. Rockefeller starts Standard Oil
The Standard Oil made it so trains could go faster, and cheaper. Helped a whole bunch with exporting goods to different towns. Also helped with many inventions afterwards. -
Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone
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Thomas Edison brings light to the world with the light bulb
Thomas Edison actually wasn't the first one to create the light bulb but he had a patent out. Without a light bulb today, it would be so different. -
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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Carnegie Steel’s Homestead Strike
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Ellis Island opens
This Island helped with bringing in immigration's into the U.S. from Ireland and those countries over there. It made it to those immigration's can move into the U.S. and start a new life, have a job, and family safely. This made a huge impact into the history of U.S. Also made it so there were fights between Native Americans and immigrants. They had to pass a medical and legal test. -
Plessy V Ferguson
Both parties believed in two different ideas about segregation. One didn't want segregation and the other did. In the end the two fought it out and both agreed on a doctrine called "separate but equal" -
The U.S. declares war on Spain
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Hawaii is annexed
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Rudyard Kipling published “The White Man’s Burden” in The New York Sun2
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The start of the Boxer Rebellion
The Boxer Rebellion happened in China. Their goal was to remove all foreign influence out of China. They didn't want American beliefs or Christianity. At the beginning they planned on killing any foreigners. -
Tenement Act
The tenement act was an act were poor tenement houses were banned. This made it so living conditions were better for everyone, and diseases weren't so bad. Tenement houses were super small, disgusting, had diseases, and just wasn't good for anyone. -
Pres. McKinley is assassinated and Progressive 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 Western Hem
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Pure Food & Drug Act and The Meat Inspection Act are passed
This is very important to history. It has changed a long of way people think of health to today. The reason the act passed was because of the Upton Sinclair book, "The Jungle" which brought light to the meat packing industry -
Upton Sinclair releases "The Jungle"
Back then, in the meat packing industry there was no health restrictions. Without that, you could get sick from eating the meat people were packing which could have animals, human parts, or feces. Since Sinclair released a book about it, it raised awareness of the issues -
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
Hundreds of women were killed due to being locked up in their workplace. After the fire incident it led to workplace reforms all across America. Making it safer for people to work. -
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 WW1
It took a while for the US to enter the war. We didn't really want to go into war, that's why it took us until the end of the war to enter. We entered the war because one of our boats were attacked by Germany. -
Women got the right to vote
There was a long battle between many people as if women can have the right to vote or not. After a long journey many girls have fought their way to prove that they are smart, and strong enough to vote. Men finally realized that women can also. This changed the history to today -
Ratification of the 18th Amendment - Prohibition
