turn of the century

By frankkad2
  • Alaska is purchased from Russia

    Alaska is purchased from Russia

    the United States had an agreement to purchase Alaska from Russia for a price of $7.2 million. The Treaty with Russia was signed by Secretary of State William Seward and Russian Minister to the United States.

  • Completion of Transcontinental Railroad

  • John D. Rockefeller starts Standard Oil

    John D. Rockefeller starts Standard Oil

    john built his first oil refinery near Cleveland and in 1870 . he incorporated the Standard Oil company . By 1882 john had a monopoly of the oil business in the U.S.
  • Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone

    Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone

    He first became interested in the science of sound because both his mother and wife were deaf. His experiments in sound eventually let him to want to send voice signals down a telegraph wire.

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

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

  • Samuel Gompers founded the American Federation

  • Sherman Anti-trust Act

  • Carnegie Steel’s Homestead Strike

    Carnegie Steel’s Homestead Strike

    what happened was a industrial strike which began on July 1, 1892, a battle between the strikers and private security agents .

  • . Plessy v Ferguson

  • Hawaii is annexed

  • The U.S. declares war on Spain

  • published “The White Man’s Burden”

  • The Philippine Insurrection comes to an end

  • The start of the Boxer Rebellion

  • Tenement Act

    Tenement Act

    Increasing awareness by the public of poor living conditions led to housing reform such as the Tenement House Act of 1901
  • president assassinated

    president assassinated

    McKinley is assassinated and Progressive
    Theodore Roosevelt becomes President

  • The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe doctrine declares the U.S. right to intervene in the Wesern Hem

  • Upton Sinclair releases “The Jungle”

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

  • Peak year of immigration through Ellis Island

  • Henry Ford produces his first Model T (car)

    Henry Ford produces his first Model T (car)

    The first production Model T was produced on August 12, 1908 and left the factory on September 27, 1908, at the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant in Detroit, Michigan.

  • Creation of the NAACP

  • The Triangle Shirtwaste Fire

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

  • the canal

    the canal

    The Panama Canal is completed and opened for traffic
  • ww1

    ww1

    The United States enters WWI
  • woman vote act

    woman vote act

    The Representation of the People Act 1918 saw British women over 30 gain the vote, Dutch women in 1919, and American women won the vote on 26 August 1920 with the passage of the 19th Amendment

  • Ratification of the 18th Amendment - Prohibition