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Alaska is purchased from Russia
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Completion of transcontinental railroad
Getting goods and materials through out the U.S. was a big thing. But the rail roads helped a lot with that. The opening of the transcontinental brought trains to many other places. -
John D. Rockefeller starts Standard Oil
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Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone
WHen the telephone was invented there was no more writing letters for the people who were wealthy. Though telephones were expensive they were also something that made things easier. Instead of riding to your friends house you could call them instead. -
Thomas Edison brings light to the world with the light bulb
Instead of using candles we had light bulbs. This was a major invention in history. This made life easier for everyone. -
Chinese exclusion act
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Samuel Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL)
No one got in trouble for overworking people back then. The AFL were restrictions on how many hours people could work. This was big because places couldn't make people work extremely hard hours. -
Sherman Anti-trust act
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Ellis Island Opens
Ellis Island was huge because of immigration. Many people came through the island when arriving at the U.S. It was used to check on people and to determine which ones should not be allowed in. -
Carnegie steel homestead strike
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Plessy V. Ferguson
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Hawaii is annexed
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The U.S. declares war on Spain
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The Philippine Insurrection comes to an end
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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
Its never good when a president gets assassinated. When this happens the vice president takes his spot. Mckinley was shot by a man who was an anarchist. -
The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe doctrine declares the U.S. right to intervene in the Western 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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Henry Ford produces his first Model T
Transportation was more than just getting in your car back then. It used to be hop on your horse and take a three day trip to town. The creation of the model T made transportation 100x easier. -
Creation of the NAACP
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The Triangle Shirt Waste Fire
This was a major event because it finally got peoples attention. This began the start of inspection in the work area. Many women and people died in this tragedy. -
Assassination on Austria’s archduke Franz Ferdinand starts WWI
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The Panama Canal is completed and opened for traffic
This is once again another event that made life much easier. Instead of sailing all around to get to the pacific and atlantic you could cut staright across the canal. But the creation wasnt a cheap one it was costly but was made up for. -
The United States enters WWI
War is never a little thing especially when it came to this one. Entering WWI was huge and many people died fighting for our country. And in the end, we won the war. -
Ratification of the 18th amendment - Prohibition
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Women got the right to vote
