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Immigration/Industrial

By stephaniertrabue

  • Potato Famine in Ireland

    Potato Famine in Ireland
    However, when it came to digging up the potatoes, all they got was a black gooey mess. In fact, the expected bumper crop turned out to be a disaster. There was a 50% loss of potatoes in this year.

  • First Transocntinental Railroad Completed

    First Transocntinental Railroad Completed
    The transcontinental railroad replaced the slower and more dangerous wagon trains.

  • Alexander Graham Bell patents the Telephone

    Alexander Graham Bell patents the Telephone
    Three days after filing the patent, the telephone carried its first intelligible message--the famous "Mr. Watson, come here, I need you"--from Bell to his assistant.

  • Chinese Exclusion Act Is Passed

    Chinese Exclusion Act Is Passed
    Law restricting immigration into the United States.

  • Ellis Island Opens to Process Immigrants

    Ellis Island Opens to Process Immigrants
    The gateway for millions of immigrants to the United States

  • William Bryan Jennings Runs for President

    William Bryan Jennings Runs for President
    A leading American politician from the 1890s until his death.

  • Andrew Carnegie sells his company to J.P. Morgan, creating U.S. Steel

    Andrew Carnegie sells his company to J.P. Morgan, creating U.S. Steel
    He built Pittsburgh's Carnegie Steel Company, which he sold to J.P. Morgan in 1901 for $480 million (in 2014, $13.6 billion), creating the U.S. Steel Corporation.

  • William McKinley is assassinated

    William McKinley is assassinated
    Leon Czolgosz approaches him and fires two shots into his chest.

  • Teddy Roosevelt Creates System of National Parks

    Teddy Roosevelt Creates System of National Parks
    While not creating a single park itself, the Antiquities Act enabled Roosevelt and his successors to proclaim ãhistoric landmarks, historic or prehistoric structures, and other objects of historic or scientific interestä in federal ownership as national monuments,

  • Henry Ford Creates the Model T

    Henry Ford Creates the Model T
    An automobile that was produced by Henry Ford

  • Opening of Angel Island Immigration Station

    Opening of Angel Island Immigration Station
    An immigrant processing facility on Angel Island, in the San Francisco Bay

  • Standard Oil Rule a Monopoly

    Standard Oil Rule a Monopoly
    Supreme Court of the United States found Standard Oil guilty of monopolizing the petroleum industry through a series of abusive and anticompetitive actions.

  • 16th Amendment Adopted

    16th Amendment Adopted
    Allows the Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on the United States Census.

  • 17th Amendment Adopted

    17th Amendment Adopted
    Established direct election of United States Senators by popular vote.

  • 19th Amendment Adopted

    19th Amendment Adopted
    Guaranteeing women the right to vote