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John D. Rockefeller starts Standard Oil
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Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone
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Alaska is purchased from Russia
The Alaska Purchase was the United States purchase of Alaska from the Russian Empire on march 30 1867 by a treaty ratified by the United States Senate and signed by President Andrew Johnson. -
Completion of Transcontinental Railroad
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Thomas Edison brings light to the world with the light bulb
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Chinese Exclusion Act
The Chinese Exclusion Act was a United States federal law signed by President Chester arthur on May 6 1882 prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers building on the 1875 Page Act which banned Chinese women from immigrating to the United States the Chinese Exclusion Act was the first law implemented to prevent all members of a specific ethnic or national group from immigrating. -
Samuel Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL)
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Sherman Anti-trust Act
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Carnegie Steel’s Homestead Strike
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Plessy v Ferguson
It upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities as long as the segregated facilities were equal in quality
plessy is widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history the decision itself has never been explicitly overruled. a series of subsequent decisions beginning with the Board of education -
The U.S. declares war on Spain
it began in the aftermath of the internal explosion of USS Maine in Havana Harbor in Cuba leading to U.S. intervention in the Cuban War of Independence. American acquisition of Spain's pacific possessions led to its involvement in the revolution and ultimately in the War. -
Hawaii is annexed
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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
the Tenement House Act was one of the first laws to ban the construction of dark, poorly ventilated tenement buildings in the state of New York. the law required that new buildings must be built with outward facing windows in every room, an open courtyard, proper ventilation systems, indoor toilets, and fire safeguards. -
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 Wesern Hem
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Upton Sinclair releases “The Jungle”
Sinclair wrote the novel to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrial cities His primary purpose in describing the meat industry and its working conditions was to advance socialism in the United States -
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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Creation of the NAACP
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The Triangle Shirtwaste Fire
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City on March 25 1911 was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city, and one of the deadliest in US history The fire caused the deaths of 146 garment workers 123 women and 23 men who died from the fire, smoke inhalation, or falling or jumping to their deaths. Most of the victims were recent Italian and Jewish immigrant women -
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
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Ratification of the 18th Amendment - Prohibition
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Women got the right to vote.
Women's suffrage in the United States of America, the legal right of women to vote, was established over the course of more than half a century, first in various states and localities, sometimes on a limited basis, and then nationally in 1919. -
Henry Ford produces his first Model T
The Model T was an automobile built by the Ford Motor Company. Invented by Henry Ford as practical, "affordable transportation for the common man" it quickly became prized for its low cost durability, versatility, and ease of maintenance. Assembly-line production allowed the price of the touring car version to be lowered from $850 to less than $300. -
Ellis Island opens
