history project

By arthumad

  • John D. Rockefeller starts standard oil

  • Alaska is purchased from Russia

  • Completion of the transcontinental railroad

  • Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone

    Alexander Bells invention of the telephone enabled people to talk with people far away so they then didn't have to send letters or telegraphs.

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

    due to Thomas Edisons invention, everyone could light up a room with a flip of a switch and no longer had to rely on the light of candles.

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

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

  • Sherman ant-trust act

  • Ellis island opens

  • Carnegie steel's homestead strike

  • Plessy vs. Ferguson

  • Hawaii is annexed

  • the U.S. declares war on Spain

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

  • The start of the Boxer Rebellion

  • Tenement act

    this act is important for the safety and hygiene of the people who lived there. it made it so people on the top floors had safe fire escapes and everyone had cleaner living conditions.

  • The Philippine Insurrection comes to an end

  • The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe doctrine declares U.S. right to intervene in the western hem.

  • Upton Sinclair releases "The Jungle"

  • Pure drug and food act and meat inspection act are passed

    these acts made sure that the food and rugs we consumed were safe and not contaminated or soiled.there were not rehguklations set for the factories that packaged and delivered meat.

  • Creation of NAACP

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

  • The Triangle Shirt waste fire

  • The assassination on Austria's archduke Franz Ferdinand starts WW1

    The assassintaion was one of the events that lead up to the war. it ewas one of many reasons wat was declared.

  • The Panama Canal is completed and opened for traffic

    this made it easier for boats to deliver their goods.we then didnt have to go all the way around south america we could go through.

  • united states enters WW1

  • Ratification of the 18th amendment

  • Women got the right to vote

  • Henry Ford produces his first model T car

    cars are very important for transportation and enables us to get places faster and easier.