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Alaska is purchased from Russia
It was a huge step in the united states rise to power in the Asia-pacific region. Russia purchased Alaska for 7.2 million and president Andrew Johnson signed a treaty may 28th. Alaska would transfer to the united states which ended Russia's presence in north america. -
Completion of Transcontinental railroad
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John D Rockefeller starts standard oil
Rockefeller became the richest person in the country after owning 90% of the oil in the United States. He would buy out other corporations and would make deals with the railroad industry. He had a monopoly on the oil industry. -
Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone
Alexander Graham Bell would experiment with his telegraph 2 years before getting a patent. The first words spoken through a telephone was “Watson come here, I want you!” Telephones grew from 1 in 1876 to 11 million phones nationwide in 1915. -
Thomas Edison brings light to world with lightbulb
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Chinese exclusion act
This act prevented Chinese laborers from immigrating to the United States. It was the first act to exclude an entire ethnic group. Even Chinese nationals were excluded from eligibility of American citizenship -
Samuel Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL)
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Sherman Anti-trust Act
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Ellis Island opens
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Carnegie Steel’s Homestead Strike
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Plessy v Ferguson
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The U.S. declares war on Spain
The american- spanish war lasted 3 months.The Spanish rejected the U.S. ultimatum to surrender its control of Cuba. Cubans were forced into slavery and thousands of them died. -
Hawaii is annexed
Hawaii was made a territory in 1900. It’s first governor was Dole. Was spurred by the nationalism aroused by the Spanish-American War. -
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 Western Hem
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Upton Sinclair releases “The Jungle”
“The Jungle” was to expose the appalling working conditions in the meat-packing industry.Before the turn of the 20th century a major reform movement had emerged. “The Jungle” led to many new federal food safety laws. -
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 produced his first Model T (car)
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Creation of the NAACP
NAACP stands for National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The NAACP was founded by a group of white progressives and liberals that included Mary White Ovington and Oswald Garrison Villard and African American civil rights activists including W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells, and others. They fought for end of racial discrimination and civil rights. -
The Triangle Shirtwaste 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 United States entered the conflict two and a half years after the war had already begun. Reasons the US entered the war were that German U-boats were sinking our boast and when they intercepted the Zimmerman telegram. This made the US furious and joined the allies. -
Ratification of the 18th Amendment - Prohibition
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Women got the right to vote.
The 19th amendment was a big point in US history and with the government and politics. Before 1920 the right would differ across state lines. Women would get extremely harrassed for fighting for their suffrage.
