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Telephone is invented
Alexander Graham Bell was a US inventor who first created a way to communicate over wires. He spoke to his assistant from another room. His invention changed the world -
The Alaskan Purchase
William Henry Seward negotiated the purchase of Alaska from Russia. It cast the United States 7.2 million dollars or 2 cents per acre. Andrew Johnson was the president at the time. -
Completion of Transcontinental Railroad
The transcontinental railroad had long been a dream for people living in American.The problem was finding a route through the unforgiving terrain of the West. Today it runs on 21,000 miles of routes on track. -
John D. Rockefeller starts Standard Oil
John D. Rockefeller started a oil company and it started to get bigger and bigger by people buying oil from him. Then, he also started to expand it wider and wider so he could put more or thing there. Then all the other business wanted to join him. -
Thomas Edison brings light to the world with the light bulb
Thomas Edison invented the light bulb so people can have light and so it wouldn't be so dark everywhere. He also invented it so he could use it on other stuff that could also have light. It was also on of the best inventions ever to be made. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
The Chinese Exclusion Act was a United States federal law signed by Chester A. Arthur. The Chinese exclusion act was the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States.This act provided a 10-year moratorium on Chinese labor immigration. -
Samuel Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL)
It was a national federation of labor unions in the United States founded in Columbus, Ohio. The AFL was a new kind of workers and they only allowed skilled workers. The working trained in a particular skill. -
Sherman Anti-trust Act
The Sherman Anti-Trust Act was the first Federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices. The purpose of the Sherman Antitrust Act was to maintain free competition in business and made it a crime to monopolize. Several states also placed the same law. -
Ellis Island opens
Ellis island opened as an immigration place. Annie Moore was the first to immigrate. Then many more started to come after it really became and island. -
Carnegie Steel Homestead Strike
The Homestead Strike was one of the most bitterly fought industrial disputes in the history of U.S. labor. It was also a total defeat for the workers.It was also located in Pittsburgh. -
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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Tenement Act
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Pres. McKinley is assassinated and Progressive Theodore Roosevelt becomes President
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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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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
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The Triangle Shirtwaste Fire
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The Panama Canal is completed and opened for traffic
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The Assassination on Austria’s archduke Franz Ferdinand starts WWI
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The United States enters WWI
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Ratification of the 18th Amendment - Prohibition
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Women got the right to vote.
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Upton Sinclair releases “The Jungle”
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