History Timeline

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    Pres. McKinley is assassinated and Progressive Theodore Roosevelt becomes President

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    Alaska Is Purchased From Russia

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    Completion Of The Transcontinental Railroad

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    Alexander Graham Bell Invents The Telephone

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    Thomas Edison brings light to the world with the light bulb

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    Carnegie Steel's Homestead Strike

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    Samuel Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL)

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    Hawaii Is Annexed

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    Sherman Antitrust Act

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    peek Year Of Immigration Through Ellis Island

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    Ellis Island Opens

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    Chinese Exclusin Act

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    Plessy v Ferguson

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    The U.S. declares war on Spain

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    The Philippine Insurrection comes to an end

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    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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    The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe doctrine declares the U.S. right to intervene in the Western Hem

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

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    Henry Ford produced his first Model T (car)

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    Creation Of The NAACP

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    The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

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    The Assassination on Austria's archduke Franz Ferdinand starts WW1

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    The Panama Canal is completed and opened for traffic

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    The Untied States enters WW1

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    Ratification of the 18th Amendment - Prohibition

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    Women got the right to vote