United states problems are turn century problems

turn of the century timeline

By ehock

  • Chinese exclusion act

  • Alaska is purchased from Russia

    Alaska is purchased from Russia
    Alaska is now part of America. this being one of 50 states to be part of America.

  • Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad

    Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad
    The start of one of the biggest Enterprise in america. this brings the transportation of goods and people to many places in america.

  • John D. Rockefeller started Standard Oil

  • Alexander Graham bell invents the telephone

  • Women got the right to vote.

    Women got the right to vote.
    Women finally get to vote. Now that they can vote woman are more seen as equal. This led to more rights to women and freedom.

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

    Thomas Edison brings light to the world with the light bulb
    Thomas editions invention started a whole other world.Allowing people to see in the dark and bringing new life to the world.

  • The Panama Canal is completed and opened for traffic

  • Samuel Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor

  • Sherman Antitrust Act

  • Ellis Island opens

    Ellis Island opens
    Ellis island was the main port for immigrants to come through. This gave freedom and new life to many people. without it so many people would be stuck in other countries.

  • Carnegie steel homestead act

  • Plessy v Ferguson

  • The U.S. declares war on Spain

  • Hawaii is annexed

  • The Philippine Insurrection comes to an end

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

  • The start of the Boxer Rebellion

  • Peak year of immigration through Ellis Island

  • Tenement Act

    Tenement Act
    Many homes where horrible and unhealthy. Homes where to tiny and families were crammed in tiny rooms. this made the tenements built bugger and spacious.

  • Rudyard Kipling published “The White Man’s Burden” in The New York Sun

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

  • Upton Sinclair releases “The Jungle”

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

    Pure Food & Drug Act and The Meat Inspection Act are passed
    This helped the disease threw foods decrease. This event helped start today's bossiness of inspection of foods. without this who knows how many deaths would happen from unhealthy foods.

  • Henry Ford produced his first Model T

    Henry Ford produced his first Model T
    This event is important because shaped our life today.Without this the sport of NASCAR racing wouldn't be possible.Nor would be everyday transportation.

  • Creation of the NAACP

  • The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

    The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
    After this fire the businesses of health inspection was opened. This led to less deaths in the factory. And is still part of are life today

  • The Assassination on Austria’s archduke Franz Ferdinand starts WWI

  • The United States enters WWI

    The United States enters WWI
    We lost a ton of men in this war. This changed how life was in america. This also helped with the freedom of the Jews from the camps.

  • Ratification of the 18th Amendment - Prohibition