Turn of the century timeline

By maddywelch

  • John D. Rockefeller starts Standard Oil

  • Alaska is purchased from Russia

  • Completion of Transcontinental Railroad

  • Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone

    Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone

    The telephone allowed multiple messages to be sent over wire simultaneously. It allowed people to keep in touch with family and friends. The telephone gave people the resources that they didn't have with having to send mail that would take weeks to diliver.
  • Thomas Edison brings light to the world with the light bulb

    Thomas Edison brings light to the world with the light bulb

    Made it possible for people to have light into their house. Was also safer than using cancle light.

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

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

  • Sherman Anti-trust Act

  • Ellis Island opens

    Ellis Island opens

    Ellis Island opened to allow immigrants from Europe to come to the U.S. Ellis Island was the first and largest federal immigration processing station. The U.S let in 12 million immigrants from 1892 too 1954

  • Carnegie Steel Homestead Strike

  • Plessy v Ferguson

  • Hawaii is annexed

  • The U.S. declares war on Spain

    The U.S. declares war on Spain

    The U.S declared war after the U.S.S Maine ship was sunk by the Spanish. The war was ended by the signing of the treaty of Paris. As a result of this war Spain lost contol over Cuba, Peurto Rico, the Phillipines, Guam and othe rislands.

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

  • The start of the Boxer Rebellion

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

  • Tenement Act

    Tenement Act

    This act made new saftey laws for the tenements. The tenements were very dangerous. The leading cause of death in the tenements were fireand disease. These could be easily avoided, so the act made it so there were limitedamount of people in one room and added fire escapes and many more safer and health laws.

  • The Philippine Insurrection comes to an end

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

  • Upton Sinclair releases “The Jungle”

    Upton Sinclair releases “The Jungle”

    Opens Americans eyes about the meat packing industry. THe book showed Americans how dangerous and unsanitary the meat industy really is.
  • Pure Food & Drug Act and The Meat Inspection Act are passed

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

    This act was passed because of the published book "The Jungle" by Uptain Sinclair. This act was passed because people were getting sick from food born illnesses, mostly because how the meatpacking industry was preparing and storing the food. The environment was very dangerous and unsanitary, so the government passed this act to put in new packing procedures and health codes.

  • Peak year of immigration through Ellis Island

  • Henry Ford produced his first Model T (car)

  • Creation of the NAACP

  • The Triangle Shirt waste Fire

    The Triangle Shirt waste Fire

    This fire killed 145 women. It made such an imopact that it caught the attention of the government. It started new saftey laws in working environments, and made it so there would be fire escapes and windowns, and unlcoked doors.

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

  • The Panama Canal is completed and opened for traffic

    The Panama Canal is completed and opened for traffic

    The Panama Canal is a water way that connects the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans. It is used for fast travel around the U.S

  • The United States enters WWI

  • Ratification of the 18th Amendment - Prohibition

  • Women got the right to vote.

    Women got the right to vote.

    Women have been fighting for equal rights for many many years before. They would picket the white house and even created their own societies to raise money to get articles in newspapers and parades to support their fight for the right to vote.