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Alaska is purchased from Russia
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Completion of Transcontinental Railroad
The Transcontinental Railroad created a quicker way of transportation between the east and the west. This was significant because after the railroad was complete, this created a faster way of transportation of goods and people. Before the railroad, a trip from the east to the west would have taken over four months. With the railroad, that time was cut down to just three and a half days! -
John D. Rockefeller starts Standard Oil
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Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone
The telephone created a link in communication around people all over the country. This was significant because before the telephone, if you had a medical emergency, you would have to send someone to run to the doctor and then run all of the way back to the house. Now with the telephone, you can just call the doctor to come so it cuts the time in half. -
Thomas Edison brings light to the world with the light bulb
The light bulb brought light to everywhere around the country. Before the lightbulb, a doctor would have to use a candle if they had a midnight emergency. Now they have a brighter, more reliable source of light to safely carry out the procedure. -
Chinese Exclusion 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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Carnegie Steel’s Homestead Strike
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Ellis Island opens
Ellis Island, the place that immigrants saw as a potential threat to their freedom, and Americans saw as protection from the threatening immigrants. Being the place that almost all immigrants went through to get into the U.S, it was seen as a place that might cause an issue in their immigration process that may even send them home. When Ellis Island opened, it put a stop to immigrants being able to step over the border into the U.S without being checked for security. -
Plessy v Ferguson
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The U.S. declares war on Spain
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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
Prior to the Tenement Act, immigrants' lives were literally at stake while just living, sleeping, eating, or whatever they were doing in their own home. Tenements were physical deathtraps with low ventilation, no fire escapes, and unstable structural integrity. With the Tenement Act, reformation of tenements gave immigrants "breathing room" both theoretically and physically. -
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 Western Hem
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Upton Sinclair releases “The Jungle”
You were eating what? Unaware of what went on in the meatpacking industry, people bought meat not knowing that it was either rancid or not from an animal that would be so appetizing if you knew what it was. Causing even death of our own soldiers in the Spanish-American war, someone needed to put a stop to this. Upton Sinclair being that someone, wrote "The Jungle" that caused the meatpacking industry to be completely reformed, and make meat safe once again for people to worry no longer. -
Women got the right to vote
Before women got the right to vote, the legal system was seen as unfair. Men got the right to vote from birth, while women had to sit on the sidelines and watch the men make all of their governmental decisions for them. After women got the right to vote, a sense of balance was achieved. Women were no longer seen as property with the men being the proprietary "investors." -
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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Henry Ford produced his first Model T (car)
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Creation of the NAACP
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The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire brought great tragedy to the women's families of whom the women were locked in their workplace and trapped as fire erupted through the building. At the same time, however, it also brought rejoice to many women who were in the same situation of being locked in their workplace. It brought reforms of work environments to make them safer for those working in them, with fire escapes, better ventilation, and laws against locking people in their workplace with no way of escape. -
The Assassination of Austria’s archduke Franz Ferdinand starts WWI
The assassination of Franz Ferdinand was significant in history because this is what is believed to be the beginning of WWI. This horrific event done by radicals known as the Black Hand was the terrible start of fighting between Austria-Hungary and Serbia. This was the dark beginning of an even darker war. -
The Panama Canal is completed and opened for traffic
Before the Panama Canal was open, the trip to trades in Asia was not an easy trip. Going completely around South America caused voyagers and traders to take a very long, lengthy trip. After the Canal was built, however, the trip was cut nearly in half after almost eight thousand miles was cut off of the trip. -
The United States enters WWI
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Ratification of the 18th Amendment - Prohibition
