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Alaska is purchased from Russia
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Completion of Transcontinental Railroad
The railroad meet in Promontory, Utah where the presidents of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads drove a ceremonial spike into the rail line and connected them. A lot of people died due to harsh conditions and brutal work hours. -
John D. Rockefeller starts Standard Oil
Standard Oil started in Ohio and Rockefeller started it with his younger brother William, Henry Flagler, and a group of other men. John was its president and largest shareholder. -
Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone
The fist message was from Bell to his assistant - "Mr. Watson, come here, I need you.". This was three days after the filling the patent. -
Thomas Edison brings light to the world with the lightbulb
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Chinese Exclusion Act
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Samuel Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor (ALF)
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Sherman Anti-Trust Act
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Ellis island Opens
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Hawaii is annexed
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Carnegie Steel's Homestead Strike
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Plessy v Ferguson
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The U.S. declares war on Spain
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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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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 Western Hem.
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Upton Sinclair releases "The Jungle"
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Pure Food & Drug Act and The Meat Inspection Act are passed
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Peak year of immigration through Ellis Island
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Henry Ford produces his first Model T
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Creation of the NAACP
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The Triangle Shirtwaste Fire
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The Assassination of 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
