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Alaska was bought from Russia
Russia and the US had made an agreement and settled with a treaty for the US to buy Alaska off of Russia for about $7.2 million dollars. -
Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad
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John D. Rockefeller started Standard Oil
There is no date to be found on the specific day but during this year he found that oil was much more profitable. The first refinery was built in Cleveland. From there he grew to have a monopoly of the industry. -
Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone
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Thomas Edison brings light to the world with the light bulb
The light bulb had already existed in lamp post form. But Edison had the idea to make it smaller and did so. He is famous for making and testing many bulbs just to get the one that the world started out on. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
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Samuel Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL)
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Sherman Antitrust Act
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Ellis Island opens up for the first time
This was the first day the immigration station opened up and let immigrants in to the USA. Annie Moore was the first person to be let through -
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Carnegie Steel’s Homestead Strike
The strike was started just because the pay and working conditions were terrible and the workers could not stand it much longer -
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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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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Peak years of immigration through Ellis Island
These years were the years that had the most immigrants come in and want to enter the USA. Nothing today has match this and may not in a long time. About 5000 to 10000 had been let through in this time. -
Tenement Act
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Pres. McKinley is assassinated and Progressive Theodore Roosevelt becomes President
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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”
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Pure Food & Drug Act and The Meat Inspection Act are passed
This act was made so that any dangers of eating food was reduced. It was made just because many meat packing places made meat without cleaning or making it safe. -
Henry Ford produced his first Model T (car)
This day marks the first day of the start of producing the car that started it all. Later in September the same car was released to be bought -
Creation of the NAACP
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The Philippine Insurrection comes to an end7
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The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
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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
The US wanted to remain neutral for the war. But with France, Britain, and Russia needing help the US entered the war. Many died while fighting on french battlefields -
Ratification of the 18th Amendment - Prohibition
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Women got the right to vote.
This was after the long argument and fight for the right to be a thing for women. Women had not given up and stayed strong just to be equal.
