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Turn of the Century Timeline Project

By michaela_sutton

  • Alaska is purchased from Russia

    Alaska is purchased from Russia
    The United States purchased Alaska from Russia on March 30, 1867 for 7.2 million dollars.

  • Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad

    Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad
    The Transcontinental Railroad is a network of railroad tracks that crosses the continental United States.

  • John D. Rockefeller started Standard Oil

  • Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone

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

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    Chinese Exclusion Act
    The Chinese Exclusion Act prohibited the Chinese to immigrate to the United States.

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

  • Sherman Antitrust Act

    Sherman Antitrust Act
    The Sherman Antitrust Act banned monopolies

  • Ellis Island Opens

    Ellis Island Opens
    Ellis Island was a key spot for European immigrants when they came to the United States.

  • Carnegie Steel's Homestead Strike

  • Plessy v Ferguson

    Plessy v Ferguson
    The result of Plessy v Ferguson resulted in the Supreme Court ruling with racial segregation in public places.

  • The U.S. declares war on Spain

  • Hawaii is annexed

  • Rudyard Kipling published "The White Man's Burden" in The New York Sun

  • The start of the Boxer Rebellion

  • Tenement Act

    Tenement Act
    The Tenement Act was one of the first laws to prohibit the construction of tenement buildings.

  • President McKinley is assassinated and Progressive Theodore Roosevelt becomes President

  • 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

  • Upton Sinclair releases "The Jungle"

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

  • Peak year of immigration through Ellis Island

  • Henry Ford produced his first Model T (car)

  • Creation of the NAACP

  • The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

    The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
    The triangle shirtwaist fire is significant because it forced laws into place that required workplaces have fire escapes.

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

  • The Panama Canal is completed and opened for traffic

  • The United States enters WWI

  • Ratification of the 18th Amendment - Prohibition

    Ratification of the 18th Amendment - Prohibition
    The 18 amendment prohibited the sale and possession of alcohol

  • Women got the right to vote

    Women got the right to vote
    The 19th amendment to the Constitution allowed women the right to vote