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Alaska is purchased from Russia
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Completion of Transcontinental Railroad
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John D. Rockefeller starts Standard Oil
Rockefeller's oil company had already detained 90 percent of American's oil process. His oil was so cheap, that the american consumers were pleased. He also shared his oil with 34 companies, which added up his wealth. -
Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone
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Chinese Exclusion Act
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Samuel Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL)
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Sherman Anti-trust Act
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Ellis Island opens
Arrivals came from Northern and Western Europe. Immigrants had to get physical and mental exams for them to fully pass to the United States. It became more famous for deportation than immigration. -
Carnegie Steel's Homestead Strike
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Plessy v Ferguson
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The U.S. declares war on Spain
The U.S. battleship Maine sunk, killing 260 troops, the incident caused the U.S. to go to war with Spain. Spain declared war on the U.S. because the U.S. supported Cuba's wish to be independent of Spanish rule. The war ended by signing the treaty of Paris. -
Hawaii is annexed
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Rudyard Kipling published "The White Man's Burden" in The New York Sun
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The start of the Boxer Rebellion
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Pres. McKinley is assassinated and Progressive Theodore Roosevelt becomes president
The republican leaders really didn't want Roosevelt as President. He was moderately successful third-party candidate. President McKinley was assassinated after winning the second term of his presidency. -
Tenement Act
Most urban immigrants lived in tenements, they were run-down, low rent apartment buildings. A NYC social worker counted 1,231 people living in 120 rooms. The place was filthy, and it had little freshening, light and very few bathrooms. -
The Philippine Insurrection comes to an end
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The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe doctrine declares U.S. right intervene in the Western He=
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Upton Sinclair releases "the Jungle"
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Pure Food & Drug Act and The Meat Inspection Act are passed
The cause was to protect the public against contamination of food and from products established as healthful without scientific support. To remove harmful and built up foods and drugs from the market and regulate the manufacture and sale of drugs and food winding in interstate trade. President Roosevelt signed the act for the pure food and drug. -
Peak year of immigration through Ellis Island
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Henry Ford produces his first Model T(car)
This was the original car that Ford manufactured using the assembly line process. Ford did not invent cars, or the assembly line, he just perfected it so less wealthy people can afford it. Teams of two or more skilled mechanics in the factory would gather these parts and put them together at a workstation. -
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
The Panama Canal was opened to traffic, later it pushed to revoke the Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty, and the U.S. President Jimmy Carter and Panamanian dictator Omar Torrijos signed a treaty to turn over the canal to Panama. -
The United States enters WWI
The causes of WWI were militarism, alliances, imperialism, and nationalism. The event that started WWI was the assassination of Archduke. The alliances system dragged members of each alliances had promised to come to defense of fellow members. -
Ratification of the 18th Amendment - Prohibition
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Women got the right to vote
Susan B Anthony & Elizabeth led the protesters. President Woodrow Wilson agreed with the women and urged congress to pass the 19th amendment. -
Thomas Edison brings light to the world with the light bulb
