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Alaska is purchased from Russia
Russia agreed to sell Alaska for $7.2 million. Treaty with Russia was signed by Secretary of State William Seward and Russian Minister to the United States Edouard de Stoeckl. -
Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad
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Thomas Edison brings light to the world with the light bulb
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John D. Rockefeller started Standard Oil
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Chinese Exclusion Act
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Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone
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Samu$el Gompers founded the American Federation of 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’s Homestead Strike
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Plessy v Ferguson
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Hawaii is annexed
Hawaii's location offered a strategic placement for a military base. It is the center of several continents. -
The U.S. declares war on Spain
Mckinley was pressured to protect free trade in the Caribean. He acted by declaring war with Spain. As the United States claimed the victory the world watched Spain's empire fade away. -
Rudyard Kipling published “The White Man’s Burden” in The New York Sun
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The Philippine Insurrection comes to an end
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The start of the Boxer Rebellion
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Tenement Act
Banned poorly ventilated buildings. Specific requirements for buildings helped step forth to making more livable homes. Diseases and rodents were less likely to be found in these houses more after the upgrade. -
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
First series of consumer protection laws. This made manufacturers add nutrition labels to canned, boxed foods, and drugs. -
Henry Ford produced his first Model T (car)
Henry Ford was determined to build an affordable car for the average American. He saw an opportunity, at the time cars were only for the wealthy. -
Creation of the NAACP
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The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
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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
The U.S. joined its allies Britian, France, and Russia to fight in WWI. The wa -
Women got the right to vote.
Was not truly ratified and became the 19th amendment until 1920. After petitioning and throwing illegal parades women's suffrage was finally ended. This made a big difference in America and helped shaped it into what it became today. -
Ratification of the 18th Amendment - Prohibition
