the best timeline

By Easton leon
  • alaska is purchased from Russia

    alaska is purchased from Russia

    the US bought Russia. They bought it for 7.2 million $. They bought it on the date on March 30, 1867.
  • completion of the transcontinental railroad

    completion of the transcontinental railroad

    On May 10 the Transcontinental railroad was completed.The railroad provided trade. It also gave us more opportunities.
  • John D. Rockefeller starts standard oil

    John D. Rockefeller starts standard oil

    The American Industrialist of John Rockefeller born in Richford, in NY on July 8 1839. In 1870 he incorporated the Standard Oil Company. Rockefeller became one of the wealthiest men of the world.
  • Alexander Graham Bell invents the Telephone

    Alexander Graham Bell invents the Telephone

    Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish scientist that on 1876 invented the first phone. One year later he founded the Bell Telephone Company. He worked a lot with Thomas Watson and not only on the phones.
  • 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 it on January 27, 1880. His light bulb was the first to give off practical illumination. this was not his first invention.
  • Samuel Gompers founded the american federation of Labor

    Samuel Gompers founded the american federation of Labor

    he was a labor union leader. he was the president of the AFL for 38 years. he lead the AFL until he died
  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    Chinese Exclusion Act

    Chinese Act was approved for Chinese immigrants right to work in America. This was approved on 1882. The initial version was right only for teachers, merchants, officials, teachers, merchants and travelers
  • Sherman Anti-trust Act

    Sherman Anti-trust Act

    The Sherman Act was make on 1890. Was founded in order to stop monopolies.
  • Ellis Island opens

    Ellis Island opens

    over 450,000 immigrants passed through in the time of one year. there was 3 large ships. closed in 1954
  • Carnegie Steel's Homestead Strike

    Carnegie Steel's Homestead Strike

    there was a gun battle

  • Plessy v Ferguson

  • Hawaii is annaxed

  • The U.S. declares war on Spain

  • the start of the boxer rebellion

  • Rudyard Kipling published"the white man's burden" in the new York sun

  • peak year of immigration through Ellis island

  • Tenement Act

  • Pres. McKinley is assassinated and progressive Theodore Roosevelt becomes president

  • The Philippine Insurrection comes to an end

  • The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe doctrine declares the U.S./ right to intervene in the Western 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)

  • creation of the NAACP

  • The Triangle Shirt-waste Fire

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

  • The Panama Canal is completed and opened for traffic

  • the united states enter WWI

  • ratification of the 18th amendment- prohibition

  • women got them right to vote