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John D. Rockefeller starts Standard Oil
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Alaska is purchased from Russia
The United states bought Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million dollars.Secretary of State William Seward sign the treaty for The United States .Russian minister Edouard de Stoeckl sign treaty for Russia. -
Completion of Transcontinental Railroad
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Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone
Alexander Graham Bell came to the US as a deaf teacher so he work om machine for the deaf the "electronic speech."That led him to making the microphone and later on the "electrical speech machine" which is what he called the first telephone. -
Thomas Edison brings light to the world with the light bulb
Edison made the very first electric light bulb. It worked by electricity through a thin platinum filament in the bulb.It would only burn for a few short hours. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
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Samuel Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL)
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Tenement Act
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Sherman Anti-trust Act
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Ellis Island opens
Ellis Island was a immigration station.About 12 million immigrants would pass through Ellis Island.It took a while before they were let into the country. -
Carnegie Steel’s Homestead Strike
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Plessy v Ferguson
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Hawaii is annexed
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The U.S. declares war on Spain
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The start of the Boxer Rebellion
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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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Pres. McKinley is assassinated and Progressive Theodore Roosevelt becomes President
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The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe doctrine declares the U.S. right to intervene in the Wesern Hem
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Upton Sinclair releases “The Jungle”
Upton Sinclair wrote a book on how disgusting the meat packing industries where.He wrote about how there where rats everywhere and crawling all over the meat.He also wrote about how if the meat would spoil and change colors they would dye it -
Pure Food & Drug Act and The Meat Inspection Act are passed
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. Peak year of immigration through Ellis Island
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Henry Ford produces his first Model T (car)
The very first Ford Motor Company was in Detroit,Michigan.Half of all cars sold in America were Ford model T.They made the car on the assembly line. -
Creation of the NAACP
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The Triangle Shirtwaste Fire
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The Assassination on Austria’s archduke Franz Ferdinand starts WWI
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The Panama Canal is completed and opened for traffic
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The United States enters WWI
We wanted to stay neutral but we had to join our allies Britain,France, and Russia.More than 12 million U.S. soldiers fought on the battlefield. A lot of Americans where not in favor to join the war. -
Ratification of the 18th Amendment - Prohibition
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Women got the right to vote.