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Alaska is purchased from Russia.
For the amount of $7.2 million, the united states had an agreement with Russia to buy Alaska. Alaska was first purchased by Russia but the United States then bought it over. The Civil War delayed the sale. -
Completion of Transcontinental Railroad.
On May 10, 1869 there was a golden spike that had signaled the completion of the first railroad in the United States. The railroad started from North America developing its way to the East Coast growing to California. The Railroad changed america by so much because, there was needs on how to move materials quicker and how to trade quicker than before. -
John D. Rockefeller starts Standard Oil.
He made a standard oil trying to make a monopoly of the oil business. Until the government put a stop to it. All we know is that the oil was located in Cleveland Ohio. Standard Oil was important because there were factories needing standard oil. -
Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone
Alexander Graham Bell is best known for creating the first telephone. Although there was a challenge for his invention but yet he still got it. Alexander Graham got the idea of inventing a telephone by the idea of "electronic speech" since he was a teacher of the deaf. -
Thomas Edison brings light to the world with the light bulb
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Chinese Exclusion Act
The Chinese Exclusion Act was the first law that restricted immigration into the United States. It was signed by President Chester A. Arthur. Most Americans disliked the Chinese because they thought they were taking over there jobs. The Chinese Exclusion Act added a 10-year moratorium on Chinese labor immigration. -
Samuel Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL)
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Carnegie Steel's Homestead Strike
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Sherman Anti-trust Act
The Sherman Anti-trust Act it opposed monopolies. The purpose of the Sherman Anti-trust Act was to keep control of competition in business and made it a crime to compete in any part of trade or commerce. After a while the Sherman Anti-trust Act didn't end up working out, it had failed because of industrial monopolies. -
Ellis Island opens
The Ellis Island for immigrants was like the first step of entering the United Stated, they had to first go through the Ellis Island before entering the country. Before having the Ellis Island immigrants used to go to Castle Garden in the southern tip of Manhattan. In 1954 Ellis Island closes and no longer takes in immigrants after already processing over 12 million immigrants since opening in 1892. -
Plessy v Ferguson
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The U.S declares war on Spain
The reason why there was a war between the U.S and Spain was because, there had been an explosion on the USS Maine battleship in Havana Harbor. Another reason why the United States declared war was because the Americans supported the ongoing struggles by Cubans and Filipinos against Spanish rule. The war between the U.S and Spain wasn't like any other war it was more of democracy. -
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
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Tenement Act
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Pres. McKinley is assassinated and Progressive Theodore Roosevelt becomes President
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The Philippine Insurrection comes to an end
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The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe doctrine declares the U.S right to intervene in the Western Hem.
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Upton Sinclair releases "The Jungle".
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Pure Food & Drug Act and The Meal Inspection Act are passed.
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Peak year of immigration through Ellis Island
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Henry Ford produces his first Model T (car).
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Creation of the NAACP
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The Triangle Shirtwaste Fire
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The Assassination on Austria'a 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
The United States entered WWI because Germany started doing unrestricted submarine warfare again. The U.S had requested a declaration of war against Germany. President Wilson decided to suspend unrestricted submarine warfare in the North Atlantic and the Mediterranean. Then on April 6 1917, the United States senate had voted in support to declare war against Germany. -
Ratification of the 18th Amendment-Prohibition
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Women got the right to vote.
For the longest women have been fighting for equal rights and for voting rights just like any men have. After every march and every fight they've finally chose to grant the Women's Right. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Lucy Stone were really important women in the women's rights movement.
