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Alaska is purchased from Russia
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Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad
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John D. Rockefeller started Standard Oil
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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
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Chinese Exclusion Act
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Samuel Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL)
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Sherman Antitrust Act
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Ellis Island opens
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Carnegie Steel’s Homestead Strike
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Plessy v Ferguson
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The U.S. declares war on Spain
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Hawaii is annexed
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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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Pres. McKinley is assassinated and Progressive Theodore Roosevelt becomes President
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The Philippine Insurrection comes to an end
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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 Wesern Hem
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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
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Henry Ford produced his first Model T (car)
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Creation of the NAACP
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Women got the right to vote.
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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
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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
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Ratification of the 18th Amendment - Prohibition
