Turn of the century

By andrew-tiggy
  • Alaska is purchased from Russia

    Alaska is purchased from Russia

    It cost the U.S $7.2 million dollars to buy Alaska. This purchase was seen as a treaty btwn Russia and the U.S. This would impact WW2 and chane how people saw them.
  • completion of the transcontinental railroad

    completion of the transcontinental railroad

    This was a big dream fro people in the West. This helped expand the U.S and increase production in things. It was a lot easier to transfer goods and helped boost the economy.
  • Alexander graham bell invents the telephone

    Alexander graham bell invents the telephone

    he wanted to help assist the deaf in communication. His dream was to get sound to travel through a wire. Both his mom and his wife were deaf so he wanted to help in their communication.
  • Thomas Edison brings light to the world with the light bulb

    Thomas Edison brings light to the world with the light bulb

    They tested more than 3,000 different light bulbs during a two year span. The first bulb test burned fro 13.5 hours. 1,000 of his attempts were completely failed, but he kept working no matter what.

  • Chinese exclusion act

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

  • Sherman Anti-trust Act

  • Ellis island opens

    Ellis island opens

    The first day it opened, only 700 immigrants went through it. Only 3 boats were there. Through the first year there was 450,000 immigrants to go through.

  • Carnegie steel's homestead strike

  • Plessy v Ferguson

  • The U.S. declares war on Spain

    The U.S. declares war on Spain

    This declaration happens after the sinking of the Battleship Maine. This war ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris. U.S supported the Spanish and Cuban revolt against Spanish rule.

  • Hawaii is annexed

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

  • The start of the Boxer Rebellion

  • Period: to

    Peak year of immigration through Ellis island

  • Tenement act

    Tenement act

    This act required outward facing windows, indoor bathrooms, proper ventilation, and fire safeguards. This act was to improve the living of people living in New York.

  • 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)

    Henry Ford produced his first model T (car)

    The first car he made was the quadricycle. He drove at 4 am that day he was so excited. The next car made was the model T and was show off in Detroit Michigan.

  • creation of the NAACP

  • The Triangle Shirt-waste Fire

  • The Assassination on Austrias archduke Franz Ferdinand starts WW1

  • The United States enters WWI

    The United States enters WWI

    The United States entered the war in April of 1917 to fight along side France and Russia.

  • Ratification of the 18th amendment- prohibition

  • Women got the right to vote.

    Women got the right to vote.

    Women worked for a long time to be able to have political equality. When August of 1920 came around, they finally got the equality with the right to vote.