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century timeline

By Manuelvalen7
  • Alaska is purchased from Russia

    Alaska is purchased from Russia

    The russians buy the state of alaska

  • Completion of Transcontinental Railroad

    The Completion of Transcontinental Railroad had long been dreamed by people

  • John D. Rockefeller starts Standard Oil

    incorporated the standard oil company in cleveland
  • Alexander Graham bell invents the telephone

    Alexander Graham bell invents the telephone

    The first working telephone is invented
  • 24. Thomas Edison brings light to the world with the light bulb

    24. Thomas Edison brings light to the world with the light bulb

    thomas edison created the first working lightbulb

  • Samuel Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL)

    Promoted harmony among the diffrent craft unions

  • Chinese exclusion act

    United states federal law signed by president chester A. Aurthor
  • Sherman Anti-trust Act

    Sherman Anti-trust Act

    outlawed monopolistic buissnes practices
  • Ellis Island opens

    Ellis Island opens

    Was offically oppened as an imigration station

  • Peak year of immigration through Ellis Island

    1,004,756 immigrants processed
  • Carnegie steel's homestead strike

    Carnegie steel's homestead strike

    Lock out and strike

  • Plessy v Ferguson

    It was a land mark decision

  • 22. The U.S. declares war on Spain

    Spain sunk the battleship maine and the united states got mad

  • Hawaii is annexed

    America's annexation of Hawaii in 1898 extended U.S. territory into the Pacific and highlighted resulted from economic integration and the rise of the United States as a Pacific power.

  • 19. The Philippine Insurrection comes to an end

    The Philippines viewed this as a cuntinuation of struggle for independence

  • Rudyard Kipling published “The White Man’s Burden” in The New York Sun

  • 29. The start of the Boxer Rebellion

    The chinese viewed foreigners as barbarians

  • Pres. McKinley is assassinated and Progressive Theodore Roosevelt becomes President

    When theodore became president he elected McKinley as assistant
  • Tenement Act

    Tenement Act

  • 20. The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe doctrine declares the U.S. right to intervene in the Wesern Hem

    Sought to prevent European intervention

  • 25. Upton Sinclair releases “The Jungle”

  • Pure Food & Drug Act and The Meat Inspection Act are passed

    One of the first costomer protection laws
  • Creation of the NAACP

    Creation of the NAACP

    bi-racial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group

  • 21. The Triangle Shirtwaste Fire

    A builsing in manhatten got destroyed by fire

  • 17. The Assassination on Austria’s archduke Franz Ferdinand starts WWI

    Put australia into world war 1

  • 18. The Panama Canal is completed and opened for traffic

    People used it to get to places faster
  • 23. The United States enters WWI

    23. The United States enters WWI

    Declared war against germany

  • Ratification of the 18th Amendment - Prohibition

    Prohibited the manufacture and transportation

  • 26. Women got the right to vote.

  • Henry Ford produces his first Model T (car)

    Henry Ford produced the first running car