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Turn of the Century

By hallall

  • Alaska is purchased from Russia

  • Completion of Transcontinental Railroad

    Completion of Transcontinental Railroad
    After the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad helped connect the east to the west and bring the nation closer together. Not only did it connect us but it also made travel much easier and took a lot less time.

  • John D. Rockefeller starts Standard Oil

  • Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone

  • Thomas Edison brings light to the world with the light bulb

    Thomas Edison brings light to the world with the light bulb
    Thomas Edison did not invent the Incandescent Light bulb, 23 were created before then. Thomas Edison's light bulb was able to produce a light bulb that could continously run for 13 hours.

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

  • Samuel Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL)

  • Sherman Anti-Trust Act

  • Ellis island opens

    Ellis island opens
    Ellis Island was originally a mud bank in the New York Bay. There were no Immigration Laws until 1820 which led to the need for a place such as Ellis Island. In November of 1954 Ellis Island officially closed.

  • Carnegie Steel’s Homestead Strike

  • Plessy v. Ferguson

  • The U.S. declares war on Spain

  • Hawaii is annexed

  • Rudyard Kipling published “The White Man’s Burden” in The New York Sun

  • The start of the Boxer Rebellion

  • Tenement Act

    Tenement Act
    The Tenement Act helped create better living situations for the poor. This "new" act required fire escapes and outwards facing windows. This helped with decreasing the spread of disease.

  • Pres. McKinley is assassinated and Progressive Theodore 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 Western Hem

  • Pure Food & Drug Act and The Meat Inspection Act are passed

    Pure Food & Drug Act and The Meat Inspection Act are passed
    These acts were the first of many to protect consumers. This led to the creation of the Food and Drug Administration. The Meat Inspection Act made it illegal to misbrand meat and made sure slaughter and processing is done under sanitary conditions.

  • Upton Sinclair releases “The Jungle”

  • Peak of immigration through Ellis Island

  • Henry Ford produces his first Model T (car)

  • Creation of the NAACP

  • The Triangle Shirtwaste Fire

    The Triangle Shirtwaste Fire

  • The Assassination of Austria’s archduke Franz Ferdinand starts WWI

  • The Panama Canal is completed and opened for traffic

  • The United States enters WWI

  • Ratification of the 18th Amendment - Prohibition

  • Women got the right to vote

    Women got the right to vote
    The Women's Suffrage Movement was a decades long fight. With the National Women's Party helping with the fight for their rights. The 19th Amendment not only gave women the right to vote but protected voter rights.