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Alaska is purchased from Russia
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Completion of Transcontinental Railroad
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John D. Rockefeller starts Standard Oil
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Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone
-On March 7, 1876, Bell was awarded a patent on the device, and three days later, he made his first telephone call to Thomas Watson
-He had an almost 20 year battle with people who claimed that they had invented it, not him.
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Thomas Edison brings light to the world with the light bulb
-After the invention of Edison's light bulb, it was followed by the start of the Edison Electric Illuminating Company of New York
-Edisons lightbulb was based off past knowledge and was a different version of someone elses
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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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Ellis Island opens
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Carnegie Steel’s Homestead Strike
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Plessy v Ferguson
- This made the rule of having public facilities and having them separate but equal -The case started in 1892 as a challenge to Louisiana’s Separate Car Act -it gave punishment to laws designed to achieve racial segregation
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Hawaii is annexed
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The U.S. declares war on Spain
-United States declared war on Spain after the sinking of the Battleship Maine in Havana
-The signing of the Treaty of Paris, ended the war on December 10, 1898.
- Spain lost its control over, Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippines Islands, Guam, and other islands. -
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
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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 Wesern Hem
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Upton Sinclair releases “The Jungle”
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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 produces his first Model T (car)
-Ford factories produced more than 15 million Model Ts.
-The first model Ts were not available in black.
-They started out with hand cranks, but turned to battery starters. -
Creation of the NAACP
-It was created to advance justice for African Americans
-It is America’s oldest and largest civil rights organization
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The Triangle Shirtwaste Fire
-The fire brought widespread attention to the poor conditions of the workplace
-The owners employed young immigrant women who worked in a cramped space at sewing machines
-Forty-nine workers had burned to death or been suffocated by smoke, 36 were dead in the elevator shaft and 58 died from jumping to the sidewalks -
The Assassination on Austria’s archduke Franz Ferdinand starts WWI
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The Panama Canal is completed and opened for traffic
-Construction on the canal began in 1881.
-On November 3, 1903, some Panamanians declared independence from Colombia.
-in 1977 U.S. the president signed a treaty to turn over the canal to Panama by the end of the century -
The United States enters WWI
-More than 2 million U.S. soldiers fought on battlefields in France.
-Some Americans didn't want to enter in WWI and they wanted to stay neutral
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Ratification of the 18th Amendment - Prohibition
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Women got the right to vote.
-Sometimes those who did not agree, would abuse the women and put them in jail
-Secretary of State certified the ratification on August 26, 1920
-19th Amendment gave women the right to vote
