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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
By 1870 the firm of Rockefeller was operating the largest refineries in Cleveland, and these and related facilities became the property of the new Standard Oil Company, incorporated in Ohio in 1870. By 1880, through elimination of competitors, mergers with other firms, and use of favourable railroad rebates, it controlled the refining of 90 to 95 percent of all oil produced in the United States. -
Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone
Bell worked with Thomas Watson on the telephone though his prodigious intellect would allow him to work on numerous other inventions, including flying machines and hydrofoils Bell invinted the first phone he was a scottish, and smart -
Thomas Edison brings light to the world with the light bulb
Where Edison succeeded and surpassed his competition was in developing a practical and inexpensive light bulb, according to the doe Edison and his team of researchers in Edison's laboratory in Menlo Park tested more than 3,000 designs for bulbs between 1878 and 1880. In November 1879, Edison filed a patent for an electric lamp with a carbon filament. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
Meant to curb the influx of Chinese immigrants to the United States, particularly California The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 suspended Chinese immigration for ten years and declared Chinese immigrants ineligible for naturalization President Chester A. Arthur signed it into law on May 6, 1882. Chinese Americans already in the country challenged the constitutionality of the discriminatory acts, but their efforts failed. -
Samuel Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL)
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. Samuel Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor
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Carnegie Steel’s Homestead Strike
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Plessy v Ferguson
Plessy v. Ferguson was a landmark 1896 U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine. The case stemmed from an 1892 incident in which African American train passenger Homer Plessy refused to sit in a car for blacks. Rejecting Plessy’s argument that his constitutional rights were violated -
The U.S. declares war on Spain
America's short war with Spain in 1898 was the nation's first step on the pathway to becoming a world power. The U.S. victory brought with it the unintended possession of the Philippines and a vested interest in the politics of the Pacific region that would ultimately lead to conflict with Japan -
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
In 1900 in what became known as the Boxer Rebellion or a Chinese secret organization called the Society of the Righteous and Harmonious Fists led an uprising in northern China against the spread of Western and Japanese influence there. The rebels, referred to by Westerners as Boxers because they performed physical exercises they believed would make them able to withstand bullets, -
The Philippine Insurrection comes to an end
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Pres. McKinley is assassinated and Progressive Theodore Roosevelt becomes President
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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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Pure Food & Drug Act and The Meat Inspection Act are passed
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Upton Sinclair releases “The Jungle”
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Peak year of immigration through Ellis Island
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Henry Ford produced his first Model T (car)
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Creation of the NAACP
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The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
On march 25 1911, the Triangle Shirtwaist Company factory in New York City burned it killed 145 workers. It is remembered as one of the most infamous incidents in American industrial history, as the deaths were largely preventable–most of the victims died as a result of neglected safety features and locked doors within the factory building. The tragedy brought widespread attention to the dangerous sweatshop conditions of factories -
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
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Women got the right to vote.
The 19th amendment legally guarantees American women the right to vote. Achieving this milestone required a lengthy and difficult struggle victory took decades of agitation and protest. Beginning in the mid 19th century -
Ellis Island opens
After an arduous sea voyage, immigrants arriving at Ellis Island were tagged with information they then waited on long lines for medical and legal inspections to determine if they were fit for entry into the United States. ellis island is an imagration station that was open in 1992
