-
California Gold Rush
Cattle sales -
Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone
One of the most profitable illustrations in the nineteenth century -
President Johnson was impeached.
The Fifteenth Amendment was passed.
The Union Leagues were created -
Thomas Edison invents the light bulb.
Inventor of the era. -
Roscoe Concklin had such a powerful hold over his pick for the party. -
The Statue of Liberty is unveiled in New York.
Stood as a physical representation of the new freedoms and economic opportunities they hoped to find. -
The electric elevator invention leads to skyscrapers being built -
The Boxer Rebellion in China sought to expel all western influences, including Christian missionaries and trade partners. The Chinese government appreciated the American, British, and German troops that helped suppress the rebellion. -
President William McKinley's assassination at the hands of an anarchist made Theodore Roosevelt the country’s youngest president. -
A fire broke out at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City. Despite the efforts of firefighters, 146 workers died in the fire -
Fenway Park gets built in Boston. -
With the creation of the Federal Reserve Board, President Wilson set the stage for the modern banking system. This restructuring of the American financial system, which included the authorization of a federal income tax, was supported in large part by an influential Republican senator from Rhode Island, Nelson Aldrich, co-author of the Payne-Aldrich Act of 1909. -
Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated. -
The western states were the first to allow women the right to vote, a freedom that grew out of the less deeply entrenched gendered spheres in the region. -
US soldiers engage with the German while Wilson issues his Fourteen Points -
The Treaty of Versailles is passed. -
The First New Deal is passed. -
US encounters recession when government spending is curtailed. -
The USSR launches Sputnik -
Roe v. Wade legalizes abortion nationally