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Turn of the Century

By Loudbubbles

  • Alaska was purchased from Russia

  • Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad

  • John D. Rockefeller starts Standard Oil

    John D. Rockefeller starts Standard Oil
    In 1870, Rockefeller and a few associates incorporated the Standard Oil Company. It controlled the majority of refineries in Cleveland. It also made deals with the railroads to ship its oil.

  • Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone

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

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

  • Samuel Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL)

  • Sherman Anti-trust Act

    Sherman Anti-trust Act
    First federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices. It was passed under the presidency of Harrison. It helps regulate competition among other enterprises.

  • Ellis Island opens

  • Carnegie Steel's Homestead Strike

    Carnegie Steel's Homestead Strike
    It was an industrial lockout strike. It was a battle between strikers and some private security agents. Because of this there was a setback in the unionization of steel workers.

  • Plessy V Ferguson

    Plessy V Ferguson
    It upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws. It started when Homer Plessy refused to sit in a car meant for black people. It came to be known as separate but equal.

  • Hawaii is annexed

  • The U.S. declares war on Spain

  • Rudyard Kipling published "The White Man's Burden" in The New York Sun

  • The start of the Boxer Rebellion

  • Pres. McKinley is assassinated and Progressive Theodore Roosevelt becomes President

  • Tenement Act

    Tenement Act
    It banned the construction of poorly lit, and ventilated tenement buildings. It required that new buildings must be built with outward facing windows in every room. They are also supposed to have indoor toilets, and fire safeguards.

  • The Philippine Insurrection comes to an end

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

  • Upton Sinclair releases "The Jungle"

    Upton Sinclair releases "The Jungle"
    A novel written by the American journalist Upton Sinclair. He wrote it exposing the harsh conditions and lives of immigrants. He also exposed the meat packing industry.

  • Peak year of immigration through Ellis Island

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

    Pure Food & Drug Act and The Meat Inspection Act are passed
    The first set of significant consumer protection laws. It was enacted by congress. It requires truth in labeling of products.

  • Henry Ford produces his first Model T

  • Creation of the NAACP

    Creation of the NAACP
    The NAACP is a civil rights organization for African Americans. It helped with discrimination in housing, education, employment, voting, and transportation. The group consisted of W.E.B Du Bois, Ida Wells-Barnett, Mary White Ovington, and several others.

  • The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

    The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
    It was a fire in New York City. It was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city. It led to safety regulations in factories.

  • The Assassination on Austria's archduke Franz Ferdinand starts WWl

  • The Panama Canal is completed and opened for traffic

  • The United States enters WWl

  • Ratification of the 18th Amendment - Prohibition

  • Women gain the right to vote

    Women gain the right to vote
    The 19th amendment passed allowing women the right to vote. It guarantees that all American women have the right to vote. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Lucy Stone fought for years for equality.