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Alexander graham bell invents the telephone
Alexander came to the U.S as a teacher of the deaf and wanted to create "electronical speech." He created a way to communicate over wires. His invention impacted the world with new and updated communication. -
Alaska is purchased from Russia
Russia agreed to let the U.S. purchase Alaska for $7.2 Million. The treaty with Russia was negotiated and signed by Secretary of State William Seward and the Russian Minister of the U.S. Edouard de Stoeckl. -
Completion of Transcontinental Railroad
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John D. Rockefeller starts Standard Oil
Rockefeller built his first oil refinery near Cleveland. It controlled some 90% of refineries and pipelines. Critics said that Rockefeller just wanted to eliminate his competitors in order to gain a monopoly in the industry. -
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
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Ellis Island opens
Ellis island is an imigration station opened for incoming immigrants. Immigrants were first taken to ships so that they could enter the country. During that time many immigrants were from southern and eastern Europe. -
Carnegie Steel’s Homestead Strike
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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
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The start of the Boxer Rebellion
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Pres. McKinley is assassinated and Progressive, Theodore Roosevelt becomes President
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Tenement Act
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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”
"The Jungle" is a novel written by the American journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair. Sinclair wrote the novel to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar indutrialized cities. -
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 the NAACP
Was formed as a bi-racial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group inclusing W.E.B. Du Bois, mary White Ovington snd Moorfield Storey. -
The Triangle Shirtwaste Fire
The fire caused the deaths of 146 garment workers. 123 Women and 23 m3n diedd from fire, smoke inhalation, or failing or jumping to their deaths. Most of the victims were recent Italian and Jewish imigrant women aged 14 to 23. -
The Assassination on Austria’s archduke Franz Ferdinand starts WWI
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The Panama Canal is completed and opened for traffic
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The United States enters WWI
Joined it allies with Britain, France and Russia to fight in WWI. More than 2 million U.S. souldiers fought on battlefields in France. Many Americans did not want the U.S. to enter war and wanted it to remain neutral. -
Ratification of the 18th Amendment - Prohibition
Congress prohibited the manufacture, transportation, and sale of intoxicating liquors. Widespread public disillisonment led congress to ratify the 21st admendment which allowed alchohol back. -
Women got the right to vote.
The 19th admendment gives women the right to vote. The right of citizens of the U.S. should not deny access to all genders the right to vote.
