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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
John D. Rockefeller was born inJuly 8 1839. He built his first oil refinery in Cleveland Ohio. By 1870 he incorporated the standard oil company. -
Thomas Edison brings light to the world with the light bulb
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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
This act was the first to permit trusts. A trust is and arrangement in which stockholders have their shares put into a single person/ trustee. The act was designed to restore competition, and the act was passed. -
Carnegie steel's homestead strike
This strike was one of the most fought industrial disputes because the management and labor had been locked in negotiations for months, and wage cuts were happening. The workers started a strike, and Pinkerton agents and them got into a battle were several strikers were killed, and wounded. After the strike workers would remain devoid of union protections. -
Plessy v Ferguson
Plessy v. Ferguson was a supreme court case that upheld the “separate but equal” doctrine. The results of this came from when an african-american male Plessy refused to sit in a train car full of blacks, because he didn’t believe that it was right. Plessy said that his 14th amendment was being violated, and took it to the supreme court. -
Hawaii is annexed
When Hawaii was annexed it extended U.S. territory, and led the United states to being a Pacific Power. Hawaii and the United states concluded a treaty of friendship, but americans were taking over more land than they anticipated. Soon the U.S. was urged into annexing Hawaii and they finally made their move in 1898. -
The U.S. declares war on Spain
America decided to declare war on Spain because the sinking of the main. They started it on February 15 1898. it ended in December 10 1898 with america winning. -
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
The tenement act banned poorly built buildings (tenement houses). The houses were unsafe living spaces, and didn’t meet certain standards such as sanitation, and safety. The real estate was finally required to make new buildings for the families so they could have better living conditions. -
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 Wesern Hem
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Pure Food & Drug Act and The Meat Inspection Act are passed
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Upton Sinclair releases “The Jungle”
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Peak year of immigration through Ellis Island
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Ellis Island opens
Ellis is where the Europeans came to when they wanted to come to america. It opened in January 1 1908. It is still open to this day. -
Henry Ford produces his first Model T (car)
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Creation of the NAACP
The NAACP was created because it was suppose to work for the abolition of segregation and discrimination in housing, education, employment, and etc..The people that created the group was 3 black americans and they created it mostly for the people facing challenges like them. -
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 open in August 15 1914. At first it was Americans territory. But in 1977 they gave it back. -
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.
