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Progressive era

By Cliftbra

  • Alaska is purchased from Russia

  • Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad

  • John D. Rockefeller started Standard Oil

  • Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone

    Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone

    Alexander created the very first telephone and the very first phone call was used to talk to his assistent from downstairs.

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

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

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

  • Sherman Antitrust Act

  • Ellis Island opens

  • Carnegie Steel’s Homestead Strike

  • Plessy v Ferguson

  • The U.S. declares war on Spain

  • Hawaii is annexed

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

  • The start of the Boxer Rebellion

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

  • The Philippine Insurrection comes to an end

  • Tenement Act

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

  • Upton Sinclair releases “The Jungle”

    Upton Sinclair releases “The Jungle”

    Its a magazine that covers the gore and horror of meat packing plants.

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

  • Henry Ford produced his first Model T (car)

    Henry Ford produced his first Model T (car)

    He made the first ever car

  • Creation of the NAACP

  • Women got the right to vote.

    Women got the right to vote.

    the women finally got the right to be able to vote.
  • The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

    The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

    Hundreds of women died in this fire because the building had terrible health and safety regulations and no fire escapes

  • Peak year of immigration through Ellis Island

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

  • The Panama Canal is completed and opened for traffic

  • The United States enters WWI

  • Ratification of the 18th Amendment - Prohibition