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Alaska is purchased from Russia
Alaska was bought by the U.S from Russia for $7.2 Million. -
Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad.
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John D Rockefeller started Standard Oil.
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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
Law signed by President Chester A. Arthur, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. -
Samuel Gompers founded the American Federation Labor (AFL)
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Sherman Antitrust Act
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Ellis Island opens
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Peak year of immigration through Ellis Island.
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Carnegie Steel Homestead Strike
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Plessy V. Ferguson
The U.S Supreme Court that created laws for racial segregation in public places. -
Hawaii is annexed
Hawaii was eventually made a territory in 1900, 2 years after it was annexed. -
The U.S. declares war on Spain
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Rudyard Kipling published “The White Man’s Burden” in The New York Sun
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The start of the Boxer Rebellion
Violent uprising that happened because of a group of Chinese people who would attack foreigners. -
Tenement Act
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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 Wesern Hem
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Upton Sinclair releases “The Jungle”
Book written to expose meat packing industries. -
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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Creation of NAACP
NAACP stands for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. -
The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
One of the deadliest industrial fires in U.S. history. There would have been less fatalities if there were fire escapes. -
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.
