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Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad
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Alaska is purchased from Russia
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John D. Rockefeller starts Standard Oil
In 1870, he established Standard Oil, which by the early 1880's controlled some 90 percent of U.S. refiners and pipelines. Critics accused Rockefeller of engaging in unethical practices, such as predatory pricing and colluding with railroads to eliminate his competitors in order to gain a monopoly in the industry. -
Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone
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Thomas Edison invents the light bulb
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Chinese Exclusion Act
The first significant law restricting immigration into the United States. Prohibited Chinese laborers from entering the country. -
AFL is founded by Samuel Gompers
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Sherman Antitrust Act is approved
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Ellis Island opens
Ellis island opened in 1892 as an immigration station. From 1892 to 1924, approximately 12 million immigrants arriving at the Port of New York and New Jersey were processed there under federal law -
Carnegie Steel's Homestead Strike
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Plessy V Ferguson
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The US declares war on Spain
President William McKinley asks Congress to declare war on Spain.The US declared war on Spain following the sinking of the Battleship Maine in Havana Harbor. The Treaty of Paris ended this war on December 10, 1898. -
Hawaii is annexed
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Rudyard Kipling publishes "The White Man's Burden"
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The start of the Boxer Rebellion
Society of the Righteous and Harmonious Fists, a Chinese secret organization, leads an uprising in northern China against the spread of Western and Japanese influence there. Chinese rulers resisted European attempts to introduce an industrial Economy. Christian missionary activity caused cultural tension with the traditional Chinese views. -
Tenement Act is passed
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President McKinley is assassinated
William McKinley was shot on the grounds of the Pan-American Exposition at the Temple of Music in Buffalo, New York. He was shaking hands with the public when anarchist Czolgosz shot him twice in the abdomen. -
Philippine Insurrection comes to an end.
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US intervenes in the West Hemisphere
The Roosevelt Corollary of December 1904 stated that the United States would intervene as a last resort to ensure that the other nations in the Western Hemisphere fulfilled their obligations to international creditor, and did not violate the rights of the United States or invite "foreign aggression." The United States increasingly used military force to restore internal stability to nations in the region. -
Upton Sinclair Releases "The Jungle"
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PFDA and Meat Inspection Act are passed.
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Peak year of immigration through Ellis Island
11,474 people went through immigration at Ellis Island in New York on April 17, 1907, 110 years ago. That day would be the busiest ever in the history of the famous immigration center, which processed an estimated 5,000 on an average day, according to the New-York Historical Society. -
Henry Ford produces first Model T
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NAACP is founded
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Triangle Shirtwaist fire
The Triangle Shirtwaist Company factory in New York City burned, killing 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. -
Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie are shot to death by a Bosnian Serb nationalist during and official visit to the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo on June 28, 1914. The killings sparked a chain of events that led to the outbreak of World War I by early August. The assassination set off a rapid chain of events, as Austria-Hungary immediately blamed the Serbian Government for the attack. -
The Panama Canal is completed
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The United States enters WWI
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18th Amendment is ratified - prohibtion
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Women get the right to vote
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