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Past Events From 1860's-1920's

By Arianasuri
  • 1899 BCE

    The start of the Boxer Rebellion

  • Rockefeller Started Standard OIl

  • Alaska is Purchased from Russia -18867

    Alaska is Purchased from Russia -18867

  • Completed the Transcontinental Railroad

  • Alexander Bell Invented the Telephone

    Alexander Bell Invented the Telephone

    The telephone has made a big impact on things.

  • Thomas Edison Events the Lightbuld

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

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

  • Sherman Antitrust Act

    Sherman Antitrust Act

  • Plessy V. Ferguson

  • Hawaii was Annexed

  • Rudyard Kipling published “The White Man’s Burden” in The New York Sun

  • Tenement Act

    Tenement Act

  • The Philippine Insurrection comes to an end

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

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

  • Upton Sinclar Releases a Book

    Upton Sinclar Releases a Book

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

  • Peak Year of Immigration through Ellis Island

  • Henry Ford's First Motor Model

  • Creation of the NAACP

  • The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

    The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

  • The U.S. declares war on Spain

    The U.S. declares war on Spain

  • The Assassination on Austria’s archduke Franz Ferdinand starts WWI

    The Assassination on Austria’s archduke Franz Ferdinand starts WWI

  • The Panama Canal is completed and opened for traffic

    The Panama Canal is completed and opened for traffic

  • The United States Enters War

  • Ratification of the 18th Amendment - Prohibition

    Ratification of the 18th Amendment - Prohibition

  • Women's Right to Vote

  • res. McKinley is assassinated and Progressive Theodore Roosevelt becomes President

  • Carnegie Homestead Strike

  • Ellis Island Opens