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Secretary of State William H. Seward agreed to purchase Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million. Russia offered to sell Alaska to the United States in 1859, believing the United States would off-set the designs of Russia's greatest rival in the Pacific, Great Britain. This purchase ended Russia's presence in North America and ensured U.S. access to the Pacific northern rim.
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On May 10, 1869, a golden spike was driven at Promontory, Utah, signaling the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in the United States. The transcontinental railroad had long been a dream for people living in the American West. It connected the United States and made transportation unimaginably fast for the time period.
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Most of the immigrants during this time period passed through using Ellis Island. Ellis Island was located in New York. The majority of the immigrants that passed through Ellis Island were European.
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Was a violent riot between the Carnegie Steel company and it's workers. The strike pitted the company’s management, the strikebreakers who had been hired, and the Pinkerton National Detective Agency against members of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, who worked for the company. A gun battle resulted in which a number of Pinkerton agents and strikers were killed and many were injured.
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Plessy v. Ferguson was a landmark 1896 U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine. The case stemmed from an 1892 incident in which African-American train passenger Homer Plessy refused to sit in a car for blacks. It allowed segregation to become the law in the United States.
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"The Jungle" was a novel written by Upton Sinclair, and it describes the horrid conditions of the meat industry. It's descriptions were so vivid and gross even President Roosevelt considered going vegetarian. When the book was discovered to be true, it led to the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act being passed.
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Is what most people consider the event that started WW1 and WW2. Austria-Hungary immediately blamed the Serbian government for the attack. Nationalism played a specific role in World War I when Archduke Ferdinand and his wife were assassinated by Princip, a member of a Serbian nationalist terrorist group fighting against Austria-Hungary's rule over Bosnia.
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The Panama Canal is located in Panama. North America and South America were once connected, but after the creation of the Panama Canal they are separated. It connects the Atlantic and Pacific ocean. The Panama Canal cost Americans around $375,000,000, including the $10,000,000 paid to Panama and the $40,000,000 paid to the French company. It was the single most expensive construction project in United States history to that time.
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The United States entered the war because of the Germans' decision to resume the policy of unrestricted submarine warfare, and the so-called "Zimmerman telegram," intercepted by the British, in which Germany floated the idea of an alliance with Mexico. The telegram asked Mexico to attack America at the border. Germany promised Mexico to get back the states Texas, New Mexico, California, and Arizona if they formed an alliance with them.
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The Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is ratified, stating: The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. Meaning every single female citizen of United States now has the right to vote as soon as they were at voting age.
