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Alaska is purchased from Russia
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Completion of the transcontinental railroad
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John D. Rockefeller starts standard oil
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Graham Bell invents telephone
Like the lightbulb, the telephone was a extremly helpful and important advancment. Better communications helped with military and economic problems. The telephone was one of the most important inventions ever made and is a vital part of our world now. -
Thomas edison invents light bulb
The invention of the lightbulb was a big advancment in technology at the time. Better lighting meant workers could work longer hours in safer environments. It is also the insperatoin for many other important iventions in the future. -
chinese exclusion act
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samuel gombers found american federation of labour
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Sherman antitrust act
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Ellis Island Opens
Immigrants flooded the US after Ellis island was opened. Millions of immigrants came to America through the island, a lot of people were turned away here because of prejuduce. This brought many different people and cultures to America and made it was it is today. -
Carnegie Steels Homestead Strike
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Plessy vs. Ferguson
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The U.S declares war on Spain
The U.S. declared war on Spain in an attempt to help Filipino and Cuban people who were fighting back against Spain's rule. -
Hawaii Is Annexed
After Dole had taken over Hawaii, the United States ended up annexing the, at the time, independent republic. Dole was made the first governer. -
The "White Man's Burden" is published
A book about American imperialism, promoting the takeover and annexing of the Phillipines. -
Start of the Boxer Rebellion
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Tenement Act
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President McKinley is assassinated and Progressive Theodore Roosevelt becomes president.
President McKinley was assassinated by an Anarchist, who believed he was the head of a corrupt government. -
The Philipine Revolution 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 Hemisphere
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Upton Sinclair published "The Jungle"
The Jungle was a book that exposed the crule and disgusting ways the meat packing industries do things. Its taked about how pesticides, feces, rats, rope, and rotten meat all end up on the shelves for people to buy. These unsanitary conditions lead to outrage and when Roosvlet read the book he was furious as well. This lead to the pure food and drug act being passed. -
Pure Food & Drug Act + Meat Inspection act passed
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The peak year of immigration through Ellis Island.
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Henry Ford develops his first Model T Car.
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Creation of the NAACP
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The Triangle Shirtwaste Fire
The triangle shirtwaist fire was a tragendy that killed many factory workers. They were locked in a burning building with no fire escape or any other way out. The word about the fire spread and soon many laws and saftey measures were made to keep things like this from happening. -
Austria's Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated
Ferdinands assassination was the event that ignited the first world war. Austrians believed the assassination was a direct attack from the serbians and declared war. Eventually Russia stepped in, and more and more countries joined the fight. -
Panama Canal is completed and opened
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The United States enters World War I.
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Ratification of the 18th amendment, prohibition.
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Women get the right to vote.
