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Alaska is purchased from Russia
the United States reached an agreement to purchase Alaska from Russia for a price of $7.2 million. The Treaty with Russia was negotiated and signed by William Seward for the Us -
Completion of Transcontinental Railroad
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John D. Rockefeller starts Standard Oil
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Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone
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Thomas Edison brings light to the world with the light bulb
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Chinese Exlusion Act
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Samuel Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor AFL
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Sherman Anti-Trust Act
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Ellis Island opnes
Ellis Island officially opened as an immigration station. Seventeen-year-old Annie Moore, from County Cork, Ireland was the first immigrant to be processed at the new federal immigration depot -
Carnegie Steel's Homestead Strike
The Homestead strike, also known as the Homestead Steel strike, Pinkerton rebellion, or Homestead massacre, was an industrial lockout and strike which began on July 1, 1892 -
Plessy v Ferguson
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Hawaii is annexed
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The U.S. declares war on Spain
the United States declared war on Spain following the sinking of the Battleship Maine in Havana harbor. The war ended on December 10, 1898. -
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
One of the reforms of the Progressive Era, the New York State Tenement House Act of 1901 was one of the first such laws to ban the construction of dark, poorly ventilated tenement buildings -
McKinley is assassinated and Progressive Theodore R. becomes pres.
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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 western Hem
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pure food & Drug act and the meat inspection Act are passed
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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 industrialized cities. -
Peak year of immigration through Ellis Island
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Henry ford produced his first model T (car)
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Creation of the NAACP
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as a bi-racial endeavor to advance justice for African -
The Triangle Shirtwaste Fire
was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city, and one of the deadliest in US history. All of the victims were women's looked in to the factory during the fire -
The Assassination on Austria's archduke Franz ferdinand starts WW I
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The panama Canal is completed and opened for traffic
Panama later pushed to revoke the Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty, and in 1977 U.S. Jimmy Carter and Panamanian dictator Torrijos signed a treaty to turn over the canal to Panama by the end of the century. -
The united states enters WWI
the U.S. joined its allies--Britain, France, and Russia--. Under General John J. Pershing, more than 2 million U.S. soldiers. Many Americans wanted to remain neutral -
Ratification of the 18th Amendment- Prohibitation
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Women got right to vote
the 19th amendment granted women the right to vote. The 19th amendment guarantees all American women the right to vote.
