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Turn of the century timeline

By davisjax

  • Alaska is purchased from Russia

  • Completion of Transcontinental Railroad

    Completion of Transcontinental Railroad
    The completion of the Transcontinental Railroad was every important in U.S. history. It was the first railroad to connect the Pacific and Eastern coast together. The railroad also made it much easier to transport goods by train instead of covered wagons.

  • John D. Rockefeller starts Standard Oil

  • Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone

    Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone
    The telephone was a huge invention at the time it was created. The phone was the first electronic communication system patent by Alexander Grahman Bell. With the invention of the telephone, Grahman Bell started the Bell telephone company.

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

    Thomas Edison brings light to the world with the light bulb
    The light bulb changed they way lighting was. Instead of using oil lamps, we could start putting light bulbs so we could have brighter, and longer light source. Thomas Edison, Hiram Maxim, and Joseph Swan all help create the light bulb, but Edison was the first to make the patent for it.

  • Chinese exclusion act

  • Samuel Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL)

  • Sherman Anti-trust act

    Sherman Anti-trust act
    The Sherman Anti-trust act was very important to the business side of things.The Anti-trust act outlawed the practices of monopoly's in business.This act helped bring down all the big business that had control of all the business's.

  • Carnegie Steel's Homestead strike

  • Ellis Island opens

  • Plessy V. Ferguson

  • The U.S. declares war on Spain

  • Hawaii is annexed

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

  • The starts of the Boxer Rebellion

  • President McKinley is assassinated and Progressive Theodore Roosevelt becomes President

  • Tenement Act

    Tenement Act
    The tenement act was one of many reforms that can from industries, and over population of immigrants.The act banned bad living conditions like dark, bore ventilated, no indoor bathrooms, living with multiple family's in a tiny room, and many more. With the act created new buildings for family's to live in with better living conditions.

  • The Philippine Insurrection comes to an end

  • The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe doctrine declares the U.S. right to intervene in the Western Hemisphere

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

  • Upton Sinclair releases “The Jungle”

    Upton Sinclair releases “The Jungle”
    The release of "The Jungle" changed the meat packing industry greatly. The meat packing plants were disgusting. There were body parts accidentally getting grinded with the meat, rats running around all over the place, rat poop everywhere. When the "The Jungle" was released, the pure food & drug act and meat inspections were passed.

  • Peak year of immigration through Ellis Island

  • Henry Ford produces the model T (car)

  • Creation of the NAACP

  • The Triangle Shirtwaist fire

    The Triangle Shirtwaist fire
    The Triangle Shirtwaist fire was very important to the way industries were back in the day. After the fire happened, it had put in inspections to make sure the work area is a safe place and easy access out in case of an emergency. The fire help start safety standards in industries.

  • The assassination of Austria's archduke Franz Ferdinand starts WWI

  • Panama Canal is complete and open for traffic

  • The United States enter WWI

    The United States enter WWI
    When World War 1 first started, the United States had nothing to do with the war. At the time we weren't interest in what was going in a place far away from us. Over time there happened to be three reasons we enter the war. Starting with the sinking of the Lusitania, the Germans restricting the submarine warfare, and final the Zimmerman note were the main three causes of us going into World War 1.

  • Ratification of the 18th amendment (Prohibition)

    Ratification of the 18th amendment (Prohibition)
    The ratification of the 18th amendment is the 21st amendment. There are many reasons on why we ratified the 18th amendment. Alot of people were getting in trouble with trying to bootleg their own alcohol. One big factor that pushed the 21st amendment was during WWI alcohol came from food crops.

  • Women got the right to vote

    Women got the right to vote
    Women had tried for a long time to get the right to vote. Many poeple beleived that women should not get involved with politics and stay home and take care of everyone. In the end women had got the right to vote and it became the 19th amendment.