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Edison created the Lightbulb and it changed electricity forever, and it made so many new things possible. -
The Chinese Exclusion Act suspended the immigration of all Chinese laborers, the Chinese were the first group subject to admission restrictions because of their race. -
The Immigration Act denied admission of people who were not able to support themselves.
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The Chicago Haymarket Affair was when immigrants were accused of killing police officers in a bomb blast. -
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The Anti-imperialist League fought annexation of the Philippines.
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Congress ratified the 1898 Treaty of Paris and it ended the Spanish-American War, it also bought the Philippine Islands from Spain. -
The Open Door Policy called for all Western powers to have equal access to Chinese markets, this policy was articulated by secretary of state John Hay. -
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Edison had invented the idea of motion pictures. So to do motion pictures he and someone else invented kinetoscope.