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Timeline Project

By vandekie

  • Alaska is purchased from Russia

  • Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad

  • Rockefeller started Standard Oil

  • Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone

  • Thomas Edison invents the light bulb

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    Chinese Exclusion Act

    U.S. federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur, prohibits immigration of chinese laborers.

  • Samuel Gompers founds the AFL

  • Sherman Antritrust Act

  • Ellis Island opens

    Ellis Island opens

    Ellis Island was a historical site that was used as an immigration station. Europeans could cross over to America through there but Asians could not; they had their own station (Angel Island). Annie Moore, 17 year old from County Cork, Ireland was the first immigrant to go though Ellis Island.
  • Carnegie Steel's Homestead Strike

    Carnegie Steel's Homestead Strike

    The Homestead strike lasted from June 30-July 6 1892. The Homestead Plant workers went on strike to fight for better working conditions, fair hours, and fair payment.

  • Henry Ford produces 1st model (car)

  • Plessy v Ferguson

    Plessy v Ferguson

    A supreme court case established in 1896. The law states "separate but equal", basically promoting segregation among the whites and blacks of the United States.

  • Hawaii is annexed

  • The U.S. declares war on Spain

  • Rudyard Kipling published "The White Man's Burden" in The New York Sun

  • Start of the Boxer Rebellion

  • Tenement Act

    Tenement Act

    The tenement act was a NY state progressive law passed in 1901. It outlawed construction of unsafe and unhealthy tenements. The law requires all tenements to have lighting, better ventilation, and indoor bathrooms.

  • Pres. McKinely is killed & Roosevelt becomes president

  • The Philippine Insurrection comes to an end

  • The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe doctrine declares the U.S. right to intervene in the Wesern Hem

  • The Jungle is published

    The Jungle is published

    By Upton Sinclair, The Jungle is one of the most horrifying novels known by Americans. The book describes in great detail about the horrific conditions and manufacture of meats. Any person who read it was disgusted and many of them became vegetarian.
  • Pure Food & Drug Act and Meat Inspection is passed

    Pure Food & Drug Act and Meat Inspection is passed

    These laws prohibited the sale and manufacture of contaminated food products. Factories had to undergo inspection in order to produce and sell meats to make sure there were no health/safety violations.

  • Peak Year of immigration through Ellis Island

  • Creation of the NAACP

    Creation of the NAACP

    NAACP stands for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Their mission is to ensure make sure people of color are included in the rights that others have; to end hate and discrimination towards black people.

  • Assassination o Archduke Franz Ferdinand starts WW1

  • Panama Canal is Complete & Open for traffic

  • U.S. enters WW1

  • Ratification of the 18th Amendment - Prohibition

    Ratification of the 18th Amendment - Prohibition

    The 18th amendment prohibits the sell, manufacture, and trade of alcohol. People believed that it was damaging and served no purpose for people or society.
  • Women get the Right to Vote

    Women get the Right to Vote

    In the 19th amendment, women are given the right to vote. For many years women went through horrible suffrage and people looking down on them. They (suffragettes) fought for their rights until they couldn't anymore. After many strikes, protests, etc., they earned their rights.