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  • Alaska is purchased from Russia

  • Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad

  • John D. Rockefeller started Standard Oil

    John D. Rockefeller started Standard Oil

    Rockefeller became one of the richest men in the world. he controlled 90 percent of the U.S. pipelines and refineries. Rockefeller donated more than $500 million to different philanthropic causes.
  • Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone

    Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone

    Alexander Graham Bell was a scientist, inventor, and engineer. First, he became interested in the science of sound. That eventually led to him wanting to send voice signals down a telegraph wire.

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

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

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

    Thomas Edison brings light to the world with the light bulb

    Thomas Edison patented the first lightbulb in 1880. In October of 1879, Edison successfully tested a

  • Sherman Antitrust Act

  • Ellis Island opens

    Ellis Island opens

  • Carnegie Steel’s Homestead Strike

  • Plessy v Ferguson

  • Hawaii is annexed

  • The U.S. declares war on Spain

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

  • The start of the Boxer Rebellion

  • Tenement Act

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

    Pres. McKinley is assassinated and Progressive Theodore Roosevelt becomes President

    The assassination happened in Buffalo New York. Leon Czolgosz was arrested for shooting him. Leon Czolgosz was electrocuted in the electric chair.

  • 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

  • Upton Sinclair releases “The Jungle”

  • 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)

  • Creation of the NAACP

  • The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

    The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

    The fire started on the 8th floor because someone didn't put out a cigarette. There were 145 casualties. Most of the deaths were women and children.

  • 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

  • Women got the right to vote.

    Women got the right to vote.

    Women's suffrage gave women the right to vote. Women started working together to get the right to vote. After world war 1 women's roles began to change, the fight for women's rights really started then.