Century Timeline

By kristenyager

  • John D Rockefeller starts Standard Oil

  • Rudyard Kipling published "The White Man's Burden" in The New York Sun

  • Alaska purchased from Russia

  • Completion of Transcontinental Railroad

  • Alexander Graham Bell invents telephone

  • Thomas Edison brings light to the world with the light bulb

  • Carnegie Steel's Homestead Strike

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

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

  • Sherman Anti-trust Act

  • Ellis Island opens

  • Plessy v Ferguson

  • The US declares war on Spain

    The US declares war on Spain

    This declaration of war on Spain was the nation's first step into more power and freedom and becoming a world power.

  • Hawaii is annexed

  • The start of The Boxer Rebellion

  • Tenement Act

  • President McKinley is assassinated and Progressive Theodore Roosevelt becomes President

  • The Philippine Insurrection comes to an end

  • The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe doctrine declares the US right to intervene in the Western Hem

  • Upton Sinclair releases "The Jungle"

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

  • Peak year of immigration through Ellis Island

  • Henry Ford produces his first Model T (car)

  • Creation of the NAACP

  • The Triangle Shirtwaste Fire

    The Triangle Shirtwaste Fire

    This led to reforms and a lot of rules came out of this one event. The rules benefited Americans and were better to be treated like actual human beings.
  • The Assassination on Austria's Archduke Franz Ferdinand starts WW1

    The Assassination on Austria's Archduke Franz Ferdinand starts WW1

    A whole war was started just because of the assassination of one man. This is obviously significant because WW1 started a lot of controversy.
  • The Panama Canal is completed and opened for traffic

    The Panama Canal is completed and opened for traffic

    The Panama Canal was a heavy source for travel and trade and came in handy in a lot of ordeals we still hear about today. This made it easier for a lot of things to get done.

  • The US enters WW1

  • Ratification of the 18th Amendment-Prohibition

  • Women got the right to vote

    Women got the right to vote

    The right for women to vote is the 19th amendment. This date is important because it took a lot of time for women to accomplish this-and also led to more freedom. This time was also known as women's suffrage.