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1. Alaska is purchased from Russia
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2.Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad
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3. John D. Rockefeller started Standard Oil
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4. Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone
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5. Thomas Edison brings light to the world with the light bulb
At the laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey Edison managed to get the first all electric light bulb. This is useful to us because without the light bulb we would have fire torches and it would be harder to see and manage without it. Electricity was passed through platinum filament in the glass vacuum bulb. -
6. Chinese Exclusion Act
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7. Samuel Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL)
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8. Sherman Antitrust Act
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9. Ellis Island
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10. Carnegie Steel’s Homestead Strike
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11. Plessy vs Ferguson
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12. The U.S. declares war on Spain
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13. Hawaii is annexed
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14. Rudyard Kipling published “The White Man’s Burden” in The New York Sun
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15. The start of the Boxer Rebellion
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16. Pres. McKinley is assassinated and Progressive and Theodore Roosevelt becomes President
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17. The Philippine Insurrection comes to an end
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18. The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe doctrine declares the U.S. right to intervene in the Western Hem
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19. Upton Sinclair releases “The Jungle”
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20. The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
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21. Peak year of immigration through Ellis Island
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22. Tenement Act
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23. Henry Ford produced his first Model T (car)
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24. Creation of the NAACP
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25. The Assassination on Austria’s archduke Franz Ferdinand starts WWI
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26. The Panama Canal is completed and opened for traffic
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27. Ratification of the 18th Amendment - Prohibition
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28. Women got the right to vote
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29. The United States enters WWI
