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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
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Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone.
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Thomas Edison brings light to the world with the light bulb.
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Chinese Exclusion Act
The Chinese exclusion act placed requirements on the Chinese who had already entered the country. It also required non labors who sought entry to obtain a certificate. Each Chinese person had to have a certificate to enter the U.S. Then they also had to have a certificate to enter back into where they came from. It was meant to prohibit immigration. -
Samuel Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL)
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Sherman Antitrust Act
The Sherman Antitrust Act was the first act to permit trusts. A trust was an arrangement by which stockholders their shares into a single trustees/ It was based on the constitutional power of congress to regulate interstate commerce. The act was designed to restore competition, and in 1890 the act was passed. -
Ellis Island Opens
Ellis island was the largest federal immigrant processing station, before it was opened immigrants were required to be processed by the state. It was officially opened on January 1, 1892, and the first person to be processed was seventeen year old Annie Moore. -
Carnegie Steel homestead strike
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Plessy V. Ferguson
Louisiana enacted the Separate Car act, which required separate railway cars for blacks and white. Plessy who was seven-eighths Caucasian participated in a test where he would sit in a white's only car. Plessy was told to vacate the car and he refused and arrested. The lawyer that worked the case said that his 14th amendment was being violated, but the court convicted him anyways. They took the case to supreme court, and argued equal but separate, and won. -
Hawaii is Annexed
The annexation of Hawaii extended U.S. territory, and resulted from economic integration that led to the United states being a Pacific Power. In 1849 Hawaii and the U.S. concluded a treaty of friendship. Soon Hawaii's economy became increasingly integrated with the U.S. Then eventually President William McKinley urged the U.S. to annex them and they did in 1898. -
The U.S. Declares war on Spain
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Rudyard Kipling published “The White Man’s Burden”
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The start of the Boxer Rebellion
The Boxer Rebellion was a movement where the Boxers killed Chinese Christians, and Christian missionaries. They destroyed churches and railroad stations, and a lot of other property. The start of all this was because the Boxers blames their poor standard living on foreigners. -
Tenement Act
The Tenement act was the first law to ban poorly ventilated buildings like the tenement houses. Which were unsafe living spaces, they didn't meet the standards of sanitation, safety, and comfort in. In 1901 the real estate industry was required to make new tenement buildings so the people could have better living conditions. -
Pres. McKinley is assassinated and Progressive and 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"
Upton Sinclair released the Jungle, and it changed the Meat packing industry. He wrote a book, and it blew up just like he wanted. He exposed secrets that he believed the world should know about, and even though many people missed the point he hit them right where he needed to. The book fame lasted until the end of Sinclair's life, and it also passed laws to have a new regulations on food safety. -
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(car)
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Creation of NACCP
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The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York was burned, and killed 145 workers. Most of the victims died as a result of neglected safety features. The fire brought attention to the dangers in a sweatshop, and led to regulations and laws that protected the safety of the workers. -
The Assassination of Austria’s archduke Franz Ferdinand started WWI
Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and his wife Sophie were travelling to Bosnia, when a group of guys decided they wanted to assassinate Archduke. Serbian Gavrilo Princip was part of the group, and he shot and killed Ferdinand and his wife. Austria-Hungary was mad, and with Germany's support they started a war with Serbia. Soon Germany declared war on Russia because that was Serbia's ally and so on which eventually leading to World War I -
The Panama Canal is completed
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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
