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Alaska is purchased from Russia.
Russia sold Alaska for $7.2 million to the U.S. The purchase of Alaska marked the end of Russians efforts in expansion of trade and settlements in the Pacific Coast of North America. This also became a much needed important step in the United State's rise as a great power in the Asia-Pacific region. -
Completion of the Transcontinental Railroads
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John D. Rockefeller started 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
Before Edison invented the light bulb, people would often go to bed around sundown. No light source other than the sun made people make as much use of the sunlight while they had it. The bulb made it possible for the people to use light without having to rely on the sun. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
Chester A. Arthur signed the Chinese Exclusion act which was the first law to restrict immigration coming from the People's Republic of China. This ban was supposed to last only up to 10 years, but got extended, which ultimately made it permanently a law in 1902. It caused so much harm and distress that it was repealed by the Magnuson Act of 1943. -
Samuel Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL)
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Sherman Antitrust Act
The Sherman Antitrust Act's purpose was to protect the public from the failure of the market. This law made it illegal for trusts to form, which wasn't effective because courts did not act on breaking up the trusts. It still remains in effect today, although it may not be invoked. -
Ellis Island Opens
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Carnegie Steel’s Homestead Strike
The Homestead Strike started, because Henry Frick wanted to break up unions in order to follow his plan of reducing the worker's wages. This strike is known one of the most bitterly fought industrial disputes in the history of U.S. labor. It was and was considered a total defeat for workers and unionism as a whole. -
Plessy v Ferguson
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The U.S. declares war on Spain
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Hawaii is annexed
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Rudyard Kipling published “The White Man’s Burden” in The New York Sun
"The White Man's Burden" is a poem supporting the U.S.'s shift from isolationism to imperialism in the Philippines. The audience of this poem was to be directed towards the imperialist powers. The poem was written in part to convince Americans to take over the Philippines. -
The start of the Boxer Rebellion
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Peak year of immigration through Ellis Island
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Tenement Act
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Pres. McKinley is assassinated
Before president William McKinley was assassinated, he lead the nation to victory in the Spanish-American War, as well as raising protective tariffs to promote American Industry. McKinley was killed because his attacker believed that he was part head of a corrupt government. His assassination changed America leading it to the creation of the Secret Service -
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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Upton Sinclair releases “The Jungle”
Upton Sinclair's publication of this book aroused public settlement, leading towards federal legislation. The book contained vivid description about diseased, rotten, and contaminated meats. This shocked the public which caused to new federal food safety laws. -
The Meat Inspection Act is passed
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Pure Food & Drug Act passed
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Henry Ford produced his first Model T (car)
The Model T car changed how the people in America lived, worked, and traveled. It became the first car to be quite affordable to a majority of Americans. Henry Ford's invention quickly became a prized possession for its low cost, durability, versatility, and its ease of maintenance. -
Creation of the NAACP
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The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
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The Assassination on Austria’s archduke Franz Ferdinand starts WWI
The archduke traveled to Sarajevo to inspect imperial forces in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which had been previously annexed by Austria-Hungary, this whole ordeal angered Serbian nationalists. Which then caused Franz Ferdinand and his wife to be shot and killed by Bosnian Serb Gavrilo Princip. This set off a rapid chain of events due to the Serbian government being instantly blamed for the attack, which led up to WWI. -
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.
