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John D. Rockefeller starts Standard Oil
He starts to pump oil out of the ground. back then oil was a very important thing because it make fire and it was a main component in almost any kind engine. -
Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone
The telephone was a tube that you blew through to talk to someone. This telephone stretched a distance of 3 miles. This was the world's first commercial telephone service. -
Alaska is purchased from Russia
Alaska was bought from Russian by the United States. the one of the two states that isn't touching to US. -
Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad
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Thomas Edison brings light to the world with the light bulb
coils in a glass ball heat up and produce a lot of light which is what we can a light ball. Thomas Edison made a light ball that is powered by electricity -
Chinese Exclusion Act
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Samuel Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL)
served as the organization's president from 1886 to 1894, and from 1895 until his death in 1924. He promoted harmony among the different craft unions that comprised the AFL, trying to minimize jurisdictional battles. -
Sherman Anti-trust Act
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7. Ellis Island opens
Seven hundred immigrants passed through Ellis Island that day, and nearly 450,000 followed over the course of that first year. -
Carnegie Steel’s Homestead Strike
a Jewish immigrant labor union leader and a key figure in American labor history. Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor, and served as the organization's president from 1886 to 1894, and from 1895 until his death in 1924 -
Plessy v Ferguson
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Hawaii is annexed
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The U.S. declares war on Spain
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The start of the Boxer Rebellion
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Rudyard Kipling published “The White Man’s Burden” inThe New York Sun
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Peak year of immigration through Ellis Island
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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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Pure Food & Drug Act and The Meat Inspection Act are passed
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Upton Sinclair releases “The Jungle
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Creation of the NAACP
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The Triangle Shirtwaste 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
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Ratification of the 18th Amendment - Prohibition
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Women got the right to vote.
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Henry Ford produced his first Model T (car)
