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Alaska purchased from Russia
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Completion of Transcontinental Railroad
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John D Rockefeller started standard oil
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Alexander Graham bell invents telephone
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Thomas Edison brings light to the world with the light bulb
Thomas Edison creates maybe the biggest resource invention in the light bulb that would revolutionize the world -
Chinese exclusion act
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Samuel Gompers founded the AFL
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Sherman Antitrust act
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Carnegie steel homestead strike
The Carnegie Steel Homestead strike was all the workers being tired of conditions wages and hours and they attempted to bring change but instead brought death and injury -
Ellis island opens
Ellis island opens and soon much of other country immigrants would come to the US looking for change a better life and opportunity -
Plessy vs Ferguson
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The U.S declares war on Spain
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Hawaii is annexed
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Rudyard Kipling published "The White Mans Burden" in "The New York Sun"
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Start of Boxer Rebellion
The Chinese were tired of all the western influences in China so after everything was done the would revolve -
Tenement Act
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President 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 US the right to intervene in the western Hem
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Upton Sinclair releases the Jungle
After witnessing working conditions and terrible and disgusting behavior with the meat products and terrible sights of huge rats would make Sinclair to write about the scenes -
Peak year of immigration on Ellis Island
Years after the opening of Ellis Island, the number of immigrants would increase from all over the globe -
Pure food and drug act and Meat inspection are passed
After the release of The Jungle and many other reasons the laws of pure food and drug act would be passed to keep meat product and other uses clean -
Henry Ford produces first Model T
Henry Ford produces the first car and it would become today's most useful form of transportation -
Creation of NAACP
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The triangle shirtwaist fire
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The assassination of Austria Archduke Franz Ferdinand starts WWI
Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated would begin one of the deadliest wars of all time -
Panama Canal is opened for traffic
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The US enters WWI
The US would enter the World War bringing in Tanks and entering trench warfare and some of the deadliest face to face battles -
Ratification of 18th amendment
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Women get the right to vote
